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Last Words from a Medieval Mother to her Son

Medievalists.net — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 18:45:35 +0000

Yesterday, I stumbled across a passage from the Liber Manualis, written by a ninth-century Frankish woman named Dhuoda to her fifteen-year-old son.

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Questions and Answers with Alcuin

Medievalists.net — Mon, 24 Aug 2015 00:02:08 +0000

What are teeth? - The millstones of our biting.

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Against the Currents of His Day: Brittany, Louis the Pious, and Elite Insurrection

Medievalists.net — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 04:33:43 +0000

During Louis the Pious’s 36-year reign, he spent much of his time convening assemblies, securing his borders, and trying to govern his empire, rather than conquering and expanding aggressively as his father and grandfather, Charlemagne and Pepin, had done.

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The Frankish War-Machine of Charles Martel

Medievalists.net — Wed, 27 May 2015 18:35:27 +0000

The Franks had a war-machine that was a highly effective and mobile under the leadership of Charles Martel. It fought from the North Sea in the north to the Mediterranean Sea in the south and from Aquitaine in the west to Bavaria in the east.

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Historian discovers evidence of malaria from the Early Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:43:56 +0000

In his paper, 'Malaria and Malaria-Like Disease in the Frankish Empire, c.450-950, Timothy Newfield examines over fifty references to illnesses which appear in Merovingian and Carolingian sources

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European Weather Extremes in the Lifetime of Charlemagne (c.742–814 CE)

Medievalists.net — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 19:57:34 +0000

An army of people, digging for a whole season, yet their efforts end in muddy ruin. Was it a project that was doomed from the start?

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Charlemagne’s Denarius, Constantine’s Edicule, and the Vera Crux

Medievalists.net — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 00:46:53 +0000

In 806 a much-discussed silver denarius bearing the likeness of Charlemagne was issued. This is called the “temple-type” coin due to the (as yet unidentified) architectural structure illustrated on the reverse side, and which is explicitly labeled as representing the epitome of “Christian Religion.”

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CONFERENCES: The Stellinga, the Saxon Elite, and Carolingian Politics

Medievalists.net — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:48:37 +0000

This is my summary of a paper presented at the Institute of Historical Research on the causes of the Stellinga uprising in the Carolingian period.

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Raymund’s Daughter’s Divorce in the 9th-Century: a Woman’s Textual Role in the Breaking of an Alliance

Medievalists.net — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:57:39 +0000

This chapter will analyse an aspect of one of the divorce cases of the mid 9th century: I review its links with politics of the day and reconsider the roles given to wife and husband in the only text that deals with this case...

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716: A Crucial Year For Charles Martel

Medievalists.net — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:12:19 +0000

The early years of Charles Martel's life are all but obscured from the historian's view.

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