{"product_id":"using-and-not-using-the-past-after-the-carolingian-empire-9780367002527","title":"Using and Not Using the Past after the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUsing and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new take on European history from c.900 to c.1050, examining the âpost-Carolingianâ period in its own right and presenting it as a time of creative experimentation with new forms of authority and legitimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the late eighth century, the Frankish king Charlemagne put together a new empire. Less than a century later, that empire had collapsed. The story of Europe following the end of the Carolingian empire has often been presented as a tragedy: a time of turbulence and disintegration, out of which the new, recognisably medieval kingdoms of Europe emerged. This collection offers a different perspective. Taking a transnational approach, the authors contemplate the new social and political order that emerged in tenth- and eleventh-century Europe and examine how those shaping this new order saw themselves in relation to the past. Each chapter explores how the past was used creatively by actors in the regi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany of the contributors present unique approaches to their topics; some bring little-known texts to the light; some force a reassessment of well-known sources. What this book does do, and does well, is demonstrate the necessity of reconsidering the traditional historiography of the post-Carolingian world, while providing a multifaceted view of the many different approaches and methodologies that can be used to explore it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaura Wangerin\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSeton Hall University, Early Medieval Europe 2022 30 (4)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1) Introduction; Past Narratives; 2) The Future of History after Empire; 3) Remembering Troubled Pasts: Episcopal Deposition and Succession in Flodoard’s \u003ci\u003eHistory of the Church of Rheims; \u003c\/i\u003e4) In the Shadow of Rome: After Empire in the late-tenth-century Chronicle\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eof Benedict of Monte Soratte; 5) Infiltrating the Local Past: Supra-regional Players in Local Hagiography from Trier in the Ninth and Tenth centuries; 6) After the Fall: Lives of Texts and Lives of Modern Scholars in the Historiography of the Post-Carolingian World; Inscribing Memories;7) How Carolingian was Early Medieval Catalonia?; 8) Orchestrating Harmony: Litanies, Queens, and Discord in the Carolingian and Ottonian Empires; 9) Models of marriage charters in a notebook of Ademar of Chabannes (ninth-eleventh century); 10) All in the Family: Creating a Carolingian Genealogy in the Eleventh Century; 11) ‘Charles’s stirrups hang down from Conrad’s saddle’: Reminiscences of Carolingian Oath Practice under Conrad II (1024‒1039); Recalling Communities; 12) Notions of Belonging. Some Observations on Solidarity in the Late- and Post Carolingian World; 13) Bishops, Canon Law, and the Politics of Belonging in Post-Carolingian Italy, c. 930-c. 960; 14) Migrant Masters and their Books. Italian Scholars and Knowledge Transfer in post-Carolingian Europe; 15) \u003ci\u003eThe Dignity of Our Bodies and the Salvation of Our Souls.\u003c\/i\u003e Scandal, Purity, and the Pursuit of Unity in Late Tenth-Century Monasticism; 16) Law and Liturgy: Excommunication Records, 900-1050\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577298653527,"sku":"9780367002527","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367002527.jpg?v=1746094755","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/using-and-not-using-the-past-after-the-carolingian-empire-9780367002527","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}