par Graceffa, Agnès 
Référence The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World, Oxford University Press, page (52-76)
Publication Publié, 2020-01
Référence The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World, Oxford University Press, page (52-76)
Publication Publié, 2020-01
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| Résumé : | The Merovingian period has long been contested ground on which a variety of ideologies and approaches have been marshaled to debate the significance of the “end” of antiquity and the start of the Middle Ages. Particularly important to these discussions has been the role of this period in shaping national identity across western Europe; interpretations of the Merovingians have varied as political realities have changed in Europe, going back, in some cases, as far as the late medieval period. This chapter focuses mainly on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but offers examples as early as the seventeenth century as to how the Merovingian period has been harnessed for a large number of purposes and how these sometimes polemical interpretations have encouraged or stymied our understanding of this period. |
