Insinuation, Censorship and the Struggle for Late Carolingian Lotharingia in Regino of Prum's Chronicle
Simon MacLean
Regino of Prüm's Chronicle, completed in the year 908, is one most important narrative sources for history later Carolingian Empire, and contains best contemporary account its collapse 888. was not a detached observer events, but political actor whose career profoundly affected by turbulence post-imperial politics. This article seeks to demonstrate how text author's own cannot be understood independently another. Through an analysis Regino's rhetorical strategies (particularly insinuation, juxtaposition self-censorship) I attempt cast new light on construction sections this chronicle. At same time, interrogating work as source life (and particular his forcible ejection from Prüm 899) use it draw out broader conclusions about conduct politics during scramble heartland Lotharingia at end ninth century.
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