Past and Present in the Histories
Graeme Ward
Moving beyond the specific context of early medieval intellectual culture, this chapter considers Frechulf’s audiences and questions political function utility history in ninth century. It begins by problematizing dedicatory prologues, which, despite their ostensible immediacy, are shown to be more complex than previously assumed. In a second step, turns exemplary role Christian Roman emperors Carolingian culture. Rather link work explicitly contemporary moral conciliar texts, argues that 820s there were range responses common body authoritative texts.
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