Past Convictions : The Penance of Louis the Pious and the Decline of the Carolingians.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (431 pages)
- The Middle Ages Series .
- The Middle Ages Series .
Cover -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: REMEMBERING -- CHAPTER ONE: Telling the Truth About the Field of Lies -- CHAPTER TWO: The Shame of the Franks -- CHAPTER THREE: Histrionic History, Demanding Drama -- PART II: JUSTIFYING -- CHAPTER FOUR: Documenting Duty's Demands -- CHAPTER FIVE: Forgotten Memories -- PART III: DISCOURSING -- CHAPTER SIX: Eloquence in Equity, Fluency in Iniquity -- EPILOGUE: CONVICTIONS PAST AND PRESENT -- APPENDIX -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
As much historiography as reception history, Past Convictions analyzes and explicates the production of historical narratives, the subsequent contestation and appropriation of these narratives, and the insight such activities allows us into how people understand change and its remembrance.
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Louis-I,-Emperor,-778-840-Historiography. Louis-I,-Emperor,-778-840. Kings and rulers. France-History-To 987. France-Kings and rulers-Biography.