The Carolingians and the Christian Past(s)

What is it about?

This is the introduction to a study that traces the categorical construction and discursive employment of the Church Fathers across a variety of textual genres and contexts during the Carolingian era. The study shows that Carolingian intellectual culture was imbued with a distinctive sense of ‘progress toward the past,’ bolstered by texts associating the Church Fathers with the perceived harmony and continuity of the ancient Christian tradition across time and space.

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