Fréculf de Lisieux : l’histoire de l’Antiquité comme témoignage de l'actualité
During the 820s, Frechulf of Lisieux composed a Universal History destined to be the grandest historiographical product of the Carolingian era. The numerous sources used therein underpin the bishop’s renown as an acute and energetic bibliographer. Yet the work’s peculiar factual scope, brought to a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2008-10-01
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| Series: | Tabularia |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/tabularia/1607 |
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| Summary: | During the 820s, Frechulf of Lisieux composed a Universal History destined to be the grandest historiographical product of the Carolingian era. The numerous sources used therein underpin the bishop’s renown as an acute and energetic bibliographer. Yet the work’s peculiar factual scope, brought to a narrative close in the seventh century A.D., has often helped to deny the bishop standing as a historical source and distracted from the originality of his historical thought. Light shed in course of preparing a new edition of Frechulf now clarifies the bishop-author’s origins and connections, and this evidence demonstrates his development of Augustinian thought and the active political stakes of his historical enterprise. |
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| ISSN: | 1630-7364 |