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  • 1 - Introduction: sources and interpretation

  • from PART I - POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Edited by Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Medieval History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    14 September 1995, pp 1-17

  • Summary

    A hierarchy of scripts, descending from the capitals of the Roman script system, through uncials and half-uncials to minuscule scripts, flourished triumphantly in Carolingian manuscripts of the ninth century, though is to be observed in English and Frankish manuscripts of the eighth century as well. Fundamental changes in the rites associated with an individual's last illness and death, for example, culminated in the creation of a common and coherent, if complex, death ritual throughout the Frankish realm. To appreciate as well as to assess the accuracy of the early medieval historiographers' interpretation of their own past, it is needed to bring in other categories of source material, as well as non-Frankish perspectives on the progress of events to balance the predominance of the Frankish versions. The Carolingians established the principle of the personality of the law in the early ninth century.