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- Title
Rewriting Merovingian history in the tenth century: Aimoin of Fleury's Gesta Francorum.
- Authors
Lake, Justin
- Abstract
Aimoin of Fleury's Gesta Francorum has mostly been ignored apart from its importance as a source for the Grandes Chroniques de France. Aimoin's editorial techniques in reworking his Merovingian-era sources deserve more attention, however. Through a process of selective editing, strategic silence, and rhetorical invention he compiled a history that would appeal to its probable target audience, King Robert II of West Francia. The most noteworthy changes wrought by Aimoin are the assignment of a divinely appointed imperial and evangelizing mission to the Franks and the transformation of Clovis into an exemplary Christian king.
- Subjects
MEROVINGIANS; GRANDES Chroniques de France (Book); KINGS &; rulers; CHRISTIANS; ATTENTION; HISTORY
- Publication
Early Medieval Europe, 2017, Vol 25, Issue 4, p489
- ISSN
0963-9462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/emed.12229