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A secular shift in Carolingian history writing?
Author(s) -
A.H. Evans Robert
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
early medieval europe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1468-0254
pISSN - 0963-9462
DOI - 10.1111/emed.12448
Subject(s) - ninth , relation (database) , agency (philosophy) , history , product (mathematics) , contrast (vision) , literature , sociology , art , social science , mathematics , geometry , computer science , physics , database , artificial intelligence , acoustics
This article explores a series of Carolingian historians, writing in the early ninth century, who marginalized the role of God’s agency, in sharp contrast to the pattern established by the Annales Regni Francorum . Where this has been noted before, largely in relation to Einhard’s Vita Karoli , it has been explained either as a clash between lay and monastic ideals or as a by‐product of the classical renewal at the Carolingian court. Examining this process across multiple texts suggests, however, that these historians can be understood as self‐consciously ‘secularizing’ in response to contemporary crises .

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