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Vice, Tyranny, Violence, and the Usurpation of Flanders (1071) in Flemish Historiography from 1093 to 1294

Medievalists.net — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:46:15 +0000

The earliest sources of the history of medieval Flanders do not agree on the origins of the counts. The earliest source, the so-called “Genealogy of Arnold [I],” credibly traces the counts’ origin to Baldwin I “Iron Arm,”...

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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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Queenship, Nunneries and Royal Widowhood in Carolingian Europe

Medievalists.net — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 17:38:24 +0000

Fulk‟s letter therefore introduces us to some central aspects of Carolingian thinking about the appropriate behaviour of laywomen especially, and serves as a way into the principal themes of this article. In particular, it is noticeable that the archbishop highlighted his expectations of Richildis in two roles: her supposed misdemeanour was concerned specifically with a failure to meet her obligations as a widow and as a queen.

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The Making of Men, not Masters: Right Order and Lay Masculinity According to Dhuoda and Nithard

Medievalists.net — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 05:57:39 +0000

Setting Nithard’s and Dhuoda’s works in dialogue with one another, this study seeks to explore how the conflicts of the early 840s may have triggered reevaluations of contemporary ideals regarding lay masculinty. At the core of both authors’ works is the understanding that the problems the realm was facing at that time were primarily due to no- blemen’s expression of unmanly modes of conduct.

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Hincmar of Reims on King-making: The Evidence of the Annals of St. Bertin, 861–882

Medievalists.net — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:35:18 +0000

The Histories and Chronicles Hincmar had in mind were presumably Frankish ones; and Lothar II, succeeding his father, thus clearly came into this section of Hincmar's third category. But of the timing or form of Lothar's becoming king, Hincmar said not a word, preferring, instead, to spell out the Biblical lesson that a bad king (and he hastily disclaimed any allegation that Lothar's father had been a bad king) would see the succession depart from his line.

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The Three Recensions of Eriugena’s Versio Dionysii

Medievalists.net — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:57:35 +0000

However, as G. Théry later discovered, Traube’s point of departure—the citations of Dionysius in Hincmar’s treatise on predestination—was faulty. Since Traube published his notes on the manuscripts of the Versio, Théry has proven that the citations in Hincmar’s Liber de praedestinatione come from Hilduin’s translation rather than that of Eriugena.

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Knowledge for Its Own Sake? A Practical Humanist in the Carolingian Age

Medievalists.net — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:49:10 +0000

Although recent studies have shed important light on the broader political and social context in which Lupus worked, this interesting figure's literary activities continue to merit further examination within the cultural milieu of his own day

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