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Shoutout to the Carolingian contingent sent to Rome to sort out the factional violence only to admit that they have no idea what’s going on.

Rome was, with 20,000 25,000 people, a huge and rich city by western standards, with its own political procedures, a set of rituals as elaborate as those of Aachen, an equally complex network of official hierarchies, and a dense factional politics which the Carolingians openly admitted they did not understand. They constantly sent representatives to try to work it out, but only too often, as the Royal Frankish Annals put it in 823, they 'could not determine exactly what had happened'. From The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham
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Not-Yet-Published SFF Writer. Linguistics and history enjoyer. I post about LotR a lot. A world of regret awaits you. She/Her. Header by beloved.moe. Website: arobertswrites.com Newsletter: buttondown.email/arobertswrites
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