This article explores a series of Carolingian historians, writing in the early ninth century, who marginalized the role of God’s agency, in sharp contrast to the pattern established by the Annales Regni Francorum. Where this has been noted before, largely in relation to Einhard’s Vita Karoli, it has been explained either as a clash between lay and monastic ideals or as a by‐product of the classical renewal at the Carolingian court. Examining this process across multiple texts suggests, however, that these historians can be understood as self‐consciously ‘secularizing’ in response to contemporary crises.

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加洛林历史写作的世俗化转变？

本文探讨了九世纪初的一系列加洛林历史学家，他们与《安娜勒·雷格尼·弗朗哥鲁姆》（ Annales Regni Francorum）建立的模式形成鲜明对比，他们边缘化了上帝代理的作用。以前已经注意到这一点的地方，主要是与爱因哈德（Einhard）的维塔·卡罗里（ Vita Karoli）有关，它被解释为是外行理想与修道院理想之间的冲突，或者是卡洛林法院经典续展的副产品。然而，对多种文本进行审查的过程表明，这些历史学家可以被理解为自觉地“世俗化”以应对当代危机。