This short conclusion reflects on the book’s overarching themes and arguments, asking how we should characterise Flodoard and understand his place in the history of medieval historical writing. Several implications for the study of tenth-century political history and the cultural development of the Latin West are re-emphasised. In a concluding discussion of audience, I suggest that the readership of Flodoard’s works may have been quite narrow because he was a ‘liminal’ author of types of history that no longer met the interests or expectations of post-Carolingian audiences.