HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES - Julian Emperor

HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES - Julian Emperor HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES - Julian Emperor

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ETHNIC AND NATIONAL HISTORY CA. 500‒1000 87he calls “Greeks” throughout and shows to be wholly indifferent tothe welfare of Italy, even in the territories of Roman/Byzantine obedience.The symbolic nub is a scene in which one of Romoald’sLombards puts an entire Byzantine army to flight by brandishing agraeculus impaled at the end of his spear. Grimoald’s prosperous reignis followed by the return to the throne of the dynasty he had ousted,with Perctarit and his son Cunincpert, and by the conflict of Cunincpertwith Alahis, duke of Trent and Brescia, who wrests the throne fromhim for a while only to lose it again, defeated by a coalition of alienatedformer allies and resentful clergy.Book VI makes a scattered impression: it follows the reign ofCunincpert to its end and then the intrusion of a Torinese dynasty,eventually succeeded by Ansprand, the former tutor of Cunincpert’sheir, and by Ansprand’s son Liutprand (712–44). Much attention isgiven to Friuli and Benevento, the former as before threatened byincursions of Avars and Slavs. There is also much foreign information,from the rise of the mayors of the palace among the Franks,for which Paul furnishes a classic Carolingian justification (VI.16),to the evils of monotheletism and iconoclasm in Byzantium, which,already blamed for the Schism of the Three Chapters, is made tolook like the birthplace of all heresies. Book VI also describes theArab invasion of Spain and the great victory of Charles Martel atPoitiers, achieved with the collaboration of Liutprand. The book endswith the death of the latter in 744 and does not cover the last thirtyyears of the Lombard kingdom or the first decade of Frankish rule.

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