The Eternal Time of History - Part VIII #938150

The great power of human culture and knowledge, expressed in multiple aspects of daily life and speculative reflection, did not seem sufficient to stem the violence of arms and the prevalence of war in a century, the eighth, which saw the peak of the Islamic Caliphate and the Lombard kingdom's expansion, while an intense unifying drive attempted to create a new Empire after centuries of fragmentation.
This dichotomy underpinned the triple vicissitudes of various families who, from one end of the then-known world to the other, faced the difficult choice between present and future.
Symbolically, the century ended with the birth of the Holy Roman Empire, ephemeral and certainly not eternal, as certain universal ideas would prove to be.