In Gaul and neighbouring areas Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages were times of political upheaval, change and unpredictable dynamics. As alternative to historical metanarratives such as 'fall/decline', 'continuity' or 'transformation' the papers of this volume analyse the narrative modes of (coping with) contingency - understood as the space which makes coincidence possible and intelligible (following Luhmann, Rusen and others) - in contemporary sources.
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In Gaul and neighbouring areas Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages were times of political upheaval, change and unpredictable dynamics. As alternative to historical metanarratives such as 'fall/decline', 'continuity' or 'transformation' the papers of this volume analyse the narrative modes of (coping with) contingency - understood as the space which makes coincidence possible and intelligible (following Luhmann, Rusen and others) - in contemporary sources.
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