Recycling the Franks in Twelfth-Century England: Regino of Prüm, the Monks of Durham, and the Alexandrine Schism
Simon MacLean
In the Middle Ages, even more so than today, history writing could be an act of political engagement. era without formal representation, ability to persuade audiences particular views past a significant weapon for those seeking gain rhetorical leverage in disputes. Yet “useful” compiled from existing works as well written scratch. Because technologies transmission age before printing, texts were essentially unstable: authoritative vulnerable editing and repackaging by copyists ways that fundamentally alter their original meanings. Moreover, because organization manuscript production, historical compilations likely reflect communities rather individual authors. Modern historians have observed Carolingian Anglo-Norman periods, both which witnessed revival interest new history, also saw surges production functioned responses high-level events contributed formation social identities.
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