Einhardian geography and the tenth‐century Abodrites.
The Abodrites, a Slavic people who lived in present‐day north‐eastern Germany, are only attested four times between 895 and 966. In this essay, I argue that most of these attestations derive not from an accurate rendering of historical events but from use of the geography of Einhard's Vita Karoli ma...
| Publicado en: | Early Medieval Europe Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 236 - 266 |
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