Rulers and government
Janet L. Nelson
Monarchy could take the form of empire. Only in Italy perhaps, among western lands, was there still a sense Constantinople as imperial centre Roman world. Tenth-century historians, namely Widukind, Liudprand, Flodoard and Richer, produced powerful images royalty. In this respect, tenth century different from other post-Carolingian lands. And even Italy, but more clearly elsewhere Frankish Europe, an ideal-type Carolingian government transmitted to learned through written residue capitularies, conciliar decrees documents. course century, patrilinear dynastic link with Carolingians broken both west east kingdoms. 888, old realms had created kings out their own guts. The kingdom has been treated much recent historiography tenth-century paradigm. caliph's response Ottonian prefigured that many modern historians.
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