Constructing the Past in the Early Middle Ages: The Case of the Royal Frankish Annals
Rosamond McKitterick
HUMAN beings are in a perpetual dialogue with the past from their vantage point present. St Augustine put this most succinctly when he discussed what thought of as ‘three times’, that is, ‘a present concerning things; things and future things. For these three spirit I do not see them elsewhere: is memory; perception; expectation’.
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