Reframing the Carolingian Annals
Jennifer R. Davis
This article aims to chart a new path forward for the study of Carolingian so-called ‘minor annals’. Previous historiography on these texts has tended get caught in endless discussion problems textual priority and interrelationships. One response this situation is use entanglement different minor annals as starting point: rather than seeing intersections among hindrance scholarship, we can attempt understand what interrelationships mean. If begin by taking seriously works narrative history reconsidering relationship between major annals, examine corpus early annalistic writing terms networks communication, chronology shaping political discourse, all which offer us ways reframe our understanding annals.
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