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Past Convictions : The Penance of Louis the Pious and the Decline of the Carolingians / Courtney M. Booker.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) : 11 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812241686
  • 9780812201383
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 944/.01092 22
LOC classification:
  • DC74 .B66 2009eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Remembering -- Chapter 1. Telling the Truth About the Field of Lies -- Chapter 2. Th e Shame of the Franks -- Chapter 3. Histrionic History, Demanding Drama -- Part II. Justifying -- Chapter 4. Documenting Duty's Demands -- Chapter 5. Forgotten Memories -- Part III. Discoursing -- Chapter 6. Eloquence in Equity, Fluency in Iniquity -- Epilogue: Convictions Past and Present -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary: How do people, in both the past and the present, think about moments of social and political crisis, and how do they respond to them? What are the interpretive codes by which troubling events are read and given meaning, and what part do these codes play in suggesting specific strategies for coping with the world? In Past Convictions Courtney Booker attempts to answer these questions by examining the controversial divestiture and public penance of Charlemagne's son, the Emperor Louis the Pious, in 833.Historians have customarily viewed the event as marking the beginning of the end of the Carolingian dynasty. Exploring how both contemporaries and subsequent generations thought about Louis's forfeiture of the throne, Booker contends that certain vivid ninth-century narratives reveal a close but ephemeral connection between historiography and the generic conventions of comedy and tragedy. In tracing how writers of later centuries built upon these dramatic Carolingian accounts to tell a larger story of faith, betrayal, political expediency, and decline, he explicates the ways historiography shapes our vision of the past and what we think we know about it, and the ways its interpretive models may fall short.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Remembering -- Chapter 1. Telling the Truth About the Field of Lies -- Chapter 2. Th e Shame of the Franks -- Chapter 3. Histrionic History, Demanding Drama -- Part II. Justifying -- Chapter 4. Documenting Duty's Demands -- Chapter 5. Forgotten Memories -- Part III. Discoursing -- Chapter 6. Eloquence in Equity, Fluency in Iniquity -- Epilogue: Convictions Past and Present -- Appendix -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

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How do people, in both the past and the present, think about moments of social and political crisis, and how do they respond to them? What are the interpretive codes by which troubling events are read and given meaning, and what part do these codes play in suggesting specific strategies for coping with the world? In Past Convictions Courtney Booker attempts to answer these questions by examining the controversial divestiture and public penance of Charlemagne's son, the Emperor Louis the Pious, in 833.Historians have customarily viewed the event as marking the beginning of the end of the Carolingian dynasty. Exploring how both contemporaries and subsequent generations thought about Louis's forfeiture of the throne, Booker contends that certain vivid ninth-century narratives reveal a close but ephemeral connection between historiography and the generic conventions of comedy and tragedy. In tracing how writers of later centuries built upon these dramatic Carolingian accounts to tell a larger story of faith, betrayal, political expediency, and decline, he explicates the ways historiography shapes our vision of the past and what we think we know about it, and the ways its interpretive models may fall short.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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