The very personal history of Nithard: family and honour in the Carolingian world
Dana M. Polanichka|Alex Cilley
Nithard's Histories of the civil wars fought between Louis Pious's sons reveal much about mid-ninth-century nobility, political values, and author's changing social position. This article considers how immediate familial history affected text's composition. We argue that his incorporation authorial voice detail, crafting royal lineage, emphasis on fraternitas suggest Nithard employed text to fight for legitimacy honour, both individual. propose should be read as a commemoration memories, thus complicating assumption family histories were purview women.
Early Medieval Europe