A secular shift in Carolingian history writing?
Robert Evans
This article explores a series of Carolingian historians, writing in the early ninth century, who marginalized role God’s agency, sharp contrast to pattern established by Annales Regni Francorum . Where this has been noted before, largely relation Einhard’s Vita Karoli , it explained either as clash between lay and monastic ideals or by‐product classical renewal at court. Examining process across multiple texts suggests, however, that these historians can be understood self‐consciously ‘secularizing’ response contemporary crises
Early Medieval Europe