ABSTRACT
This is the Chronicle completed in 908 by Regino, onetime abbot of Prum. It is the last great world-chronicle of the Carolingian era and, not least because of its vivid account of the storms and stresses of his own time, one of the great works of Carolingian historical writing. Regino's Chronicle was the first to cover the rise and fall of the Carolingian dynasty. The chapter demonstrates a specious harmony or unity in the text, according to the tenets of New Criticism, though such an approach can have its attractions. It looks at the sort of history Regino wrote, the question of his intended audience, and the importance of Prum as a site for Regino's composing of his Chronicle. When Regino finished his Chronicle in 908, Carolingians, in the persons of Charles the Simple and Louis the Child, were again ruling in west and east Francia, but the new non-Carolingian rulers were still there and duly feature in his text.
