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The Beginnings of the Medieval Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2024

Heinrich Fichtenau

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When we say Europe, what do we mean? Perhaps it has never been more necessary than it is today to apply not emotion but scientific method in answering this question. If we ask the politicians they will tell us of the continuity of Europe and its function in world politics. The geographer will speak of the special qualities of the soil and the flora. Might we not usefully regard the map of Europe from the point of view of the other, so much more extensive continents? From that point of view, would the continent of Europe seem to be an annex of Asia or Africa? No, certainly not. There are grounds of paramount importance which make such a view impossible: reasons, determined by the common history of the European nations and the common civilisation which was the product of their historical development.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , March 1953 , pp. 38 - 54
Copyright
Copyright © 1953 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

1 For a fuller Documentation on Charlemagne, Byzantium, and Aix-la-Chapelle, see: Fichtenau, Mitteilungen des Instituts fuer Geschichtsforschung, vol. LIX. Vienna, 1951. Fichtenau, Das Karolingische Imperium. Zürich, 1949. Revised Italian edition, L'Impero di Carlo Magno. Bari, 1951. The same subject is treated somewhat differently in the very scholarly book of the late L. Halphen: Charlemagne et l'Empire Carolingien, 2nd ed. Paris, 1949. On the coronation of Charlemagne, cf. address given at Glasgow, 1949, by F. L. Ganshof: ‘The Imperial Corona tion of Charlemagne, Theories and Facts', Glasgow University Publ., LXXIX, 1949. For a later period, see the excellent work by R. Folz, Le Souvenir et la Legende de Charlemagne dans l'Empire Germanique Medieval. Paris, 1950.