In a young American republic seeking to define itself in relation to European cultural and political models past and present, it was assumed that the history of Europe’s peoples could be tracked across time over the longue durée. From this perspective, even the barbarous long-haired kings of the distant Merovingian era helped to define the political and cultural identity of a France—and, indeed, a Europe—whose actions Americans recognized as relevant to their own republic. Americans saw medieval parallels not only in the actions of successive French regimes, but in contemporary transatlantic issues of anxiety, including the adjudication of claims of political legitimacy and the debate over the perpetuation of racial slavery. That early American writers located their own meanings in the history of Merovingian Francia is indicative of a less linear, and more diverse and transnational, historiography than previously recognized.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2023
Copyrightjahr
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-80270-093-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-80270-141-8
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Arc Medievalist
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
160
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Contents Kein Zugriff
List of Illustrations Kein Zugriff
Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 2
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 3 - 20
Chapter 1. American Writers and Merovingian Historiography Kein Zugriff
Chapter 2. Schoolbooks and the Teaching of Merovingian History Kein Zugriff
Chapter 3. National Character and Historical Parallelism in a Revolutionary Age Kein Zugriff
Chapter 4. Adjudicating Political Legitimacy in the Early American Republic 1790–1816) Kein Zugriff
Chapter 5. Early Medieval Unfreedom and the Debate over Slavery (1840–1860) Kein Zugriff
