Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Age. McKitterick<|

Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle AgesAuthor(s): Rosamond McKitterick\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268035006, 978-0268035006\nSynopsis\nHistorical writing of the early middle ages tends to be regarded as little more than a possible source of facts, but Rosamond McKitterick establishes that early medieval historians conveyed in their texts a sophisticated set of multiple perceptions of the past. In these essays, McKitterick focuses on the Frankish realms in the eighth and ninth centuries and examines different methods and genres of historical writing in relation to the perceptions of time and chronology. She claims that there is an extraordinary concentration of new text production and older text reproduction in this period that has to be accounted for, and whose influence is still being investigated and established.\n\n Three themes are addressed in Perceptions of the Past.