
The Origins of Cultural History: 3 – The Origins of the Conflict: Political Lawyers, Classical Scholars, Narrative Historians
Isaiah Berlin
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We Are Not Romans, We Come We Are Franks
The doctrine that we are onnly call franks because ther ws, a medical frank here, emerged from troy had already become discredited by the sixteenth century. The notion hat there were certain local customs which saps ort to take precedencs over the great, centralized body of roman law began to rear its hideous head. And this is what was then begin to be opposed to. A man who actually denied that the botemacal franchio, and said that the french had in fact come from france, i e, from franconia, was in fact put in jail for in 17 15. But that's another story.
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