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2b88qc01j46	Jake Coen	Tyrannus Rex: Tyranny, History, and Carolingian Propaganda	2021		.txt	text/plain	329	6	4	As a result, this dissertation offers three significant contributions to discussions of medieval ideas about tyranny and Carolingian political history: firstly, that early medieval thinkers did not simply parrot earlier ideas about tyranny but rather creatively reshaped this concept for persuasive purposes in their specific sociopolitical contexts; secondly, that the manipulation of concepts and terminology like tyrannus in texts composed in support of the Carolingian dynasty constitutes an important dynastic power practice in keeping with others—capitularies, charters, shows of force, etc.—discussed more broadly by scholars of Carolingian history; and, finally, that the involvement of members and allies of the dynasty in the production and dissemination of persuasive, pro-dynastic representations of tyranny constitutes a kind of propaganda that served to advance or to reinforce the dynasty's claims to authority over a polity which they had usurped. The present dissertation aims to rewrite the history of ideas about the ancient notion of tyranny in the early medieval Frankish world.	cache/2b88qc01j46.txt	txt/2b88qc01j46.txt