Flodoard of Rheims is one of the most important authors of tenth-century Europe, and the only contemporary historian to document the momentous struggles between kings and nobles in Francia in the wake of the demise of the Carolingian Empire. Flodoard’s era stands at the center of major historiographical debates concerning the nature of political and social change and the origins of European institutions. Yet, despite his singularity, his substantial histories have received little attention from scholars examining the profound transformations of the period. Exploring this discrepancy, this article offers an overview of Flodoard’s career and reviews how his histories have been invoked in some of the great scholarly debates about tenth-century Europe. It further proposes to recontextualize Flodoard and to reread his histories from the bottom up in order to gain a subtler understanding of how one contemporary perceived and represented the dramatic events and changes taking place around him.

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Rheims的Flodoard和十世纪西方的史学

Rheims的Flodoard是10世纪欧洲最重要的作家之一，并且是唯一的当代历史学家，记载了加洛林帝国灭亡后弗朗西亚国王与贵族之间的艰苦斗争。Flodoard时代处于有关政治和社会变革的本质以及欧洲制度起源的主要历史学辩论的中心。然而，尽管他的奇异之处，他的丰富历史却很少受到研究这一时期深刻变化的学者的关注。探究这种差异，本文概述了Flodoard的职业，并回顾了在有关10世纪欧洲的一些重大学术辩论中如何引用他的历史。