Perspective: The fake history that fueled the accused Christchurch shooter
A police officer stands guard outside the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 18. By James T Palmer James T Palmer is reader in medieval history in the School of History at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and has published widely on early medieval religions and culture.
In reality, the earliest medieval account of Charles’s victory did not portray the battle as a clash of civilizations at all. At this time, kings were weak, and real power lay with territorial dukes who owned land, appointed judges and organized the strongest armies for defense. Charles, starting in what is now Belgium, rose to prominence through military victories against key rivals and invading pagan Saxons from the east.
The narrative of Charles and the Battle of Tours was transformed in the 18th century with Edward Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” This was a seminal work of history, still widely read today, that lamented how Europeans had lost touch with the civilizations of Greece and Rome. And in that story, the battle truly became about warring cultures.
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