The AB throw sometimes lurid light on Carolingian politics: on deep structures as well as on changing surfaces, on local (rather than national) sentiment refracted through the authors’ sense of the persisting unity of the Carolingian Empire, on the clash of ideals with realities but also of competing ideals, on rulers trapped (like Wotan in the Ring story) by their own treaties, on nobles caught between conflicting loyalties and jarring short- and long-term interests, on peasants driven to self-defence as well as to flight, on women who as queens and concubines and 1 Levillain 1964: 15-16 Löwe 1967: 9-10 Ganshof 1970: 679-82. There is plenty of blood and guts, but there is also evidence of the everyday: of money, markets and diplomacy, of ships and sealing-wax. The AB contain, for instance, uniquely extensive information about Viking activities, constructive as well as destructive, and also about the variety of responses to those activities. For anyone concerned to make a judgement of their own, the AB more than any other single text supply essential evidence. Others see this as a period of creativity and growth, when new political communities, a new and dynamic western economy, and a self-conscious Latin Christendom first took distinctive forms.2 The debate offers a challenge. Some see the period as a catastrophic one, when the Carolingian Empire declined and fell, the western economy re-entered a deep recession, and Christendom reeled under the blows of pagan Viking attacks. As on most major issues, modern historians’ interpretations have diverged widely. They constitute the most substantial piece of contemporary historical writing of their time1 – a time that was, on any reckoning, a critical one in western European history. The importance of the text The Annals of St-Bertin give a detailed record of events in the Carolingian world, covering the years 830-82. Tessier ed., Receuil des Actes de Charles II le Chauve WaG - Die Welt als Geschichte RH - Revue Historique RHE - Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique SCH - Studies in Church History SS Spoleto - Settimane di Studio di Centro Italiano di Studi sull’alto medioevo T. Epistolae Fontes - Fontes Iuris Germanici Antiquae SRG - Scriptores rerum germanicarum in usum scholarum SSRL - Scriptores rerum Langobardorum SSRM - Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum SS - Scriptores Mansi, ed., Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio MGH - Monumenta Germaniae Historica Capit. Levillain ed., Actes de Pépin I et Pépin II, rois d’Aquitaine L/G - Les Annales de Saint-Bertin LM - Lexikon des Mittelalters MA - Le Moyen Âge Mansi - J.-D. RB - Revue Bénédictine RFA - Royal Frankish Annals (Annales regni Francorum)ĪAng - Annals of Angoulême AB - Annals of St-Bertin AF - Annals of Fulda AFont - Annals of Fontenelle (St-Wandrille) AM - Annales du Midi ASC - Anglo-Saxon Chronicle AX - Annals of Xanten AV - Annals of St-Vaast BEC - Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes BISI - Bollettino dell’Istituto Storico Italiano per il medioevo CCM - Cahiers de Civilisation médiévale CMH - Cambridge Medieval History DA - Deutsches Archiv für die Erforschung des Mittelalters EHR - English Historical Review FMS - Frühmittelalterliche Studien GC - Gallia Christiana HZ - Historische Zeitschrift JEccH - Journal of Ecclesiastical History L. NCE - New Catholic Encyclopedia PL - Patrologia Latina Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Watt The origins of anti-semitism in Europe
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