Medievalists.net » Louis the Pious http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Against the Currents of His Day: Brittany, Louis the Pious, and Elite Insurrection http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/05/against-the-currents-of-his-day-brittany-louis-the-pious-and-elite-insurrection/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/05/against-the-currents-of-his-day-brittany-louis-the-pious-and-elite-insurrection/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2015 04:33:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=60205 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/05/against-the-currents-of-his-day-brittany-louis-the-pious-and-elite-insurrection/feed/ 0 Louis the Pious and the Conversion of the Danes http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/17/louis-the-pious-and-the-conversion-of-the-danes/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/17/louis-the-pious-and-the-conversion-of-the-danes/#comments Fri, 17 May 2013 17:11:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41157 This paper was part of a very interesting session on the Early Middle Ages. The papers covered Eastern European Infant Burial, the archaeology of medieval feasting and conversion. This paper contrasted the conversion policies of Charlemagne versus those of Louis the Pious.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/17/louis-the-pious-and-the-conversion-of-the-danes/feed/ 0 The Making of Men, not Masters: Right Order and Lay Masculinity According to Dhuoda and Nithard http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/27/the-making-of-men-not-masters-right-order-and-lay-masculinity-according-to-dhuoda-and-nithard/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/27/the-making-of-men-not-masters-right-order-and-lay-masculinity-according-to-dhuoda-and-nithard/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 05:57:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38930 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/27/the-making-of-men-not-masters-right-order-and-lay-masculinity-according-to-dhuoda-and-nithard/feed/ 0 Hincmar of Reims on King-making: The Evidence of the Annals of St. Bertin, 861–882 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/05/hincmar-of-reims-on-king-making-the-evidence-of-the-annals-of-st-bertin-861-882/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/05/hincmar-of-reims-on-king-making-the-evidence-of-the-annals-of-st-bertin-861-882/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:35:18 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37759 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/05/hincmar-of-reims-on-king-making-the-evidence-of-the-annals-of-st-bertin-861-882/feed/ 0 Re-writing discourse features: speech acts in Heliand http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/30/re-writing-discourse-features-speech-acts-in-heliand/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/30/re-writing-discourse-features-speech-acts-in-heliand/#comments Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:25:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36087 Though extremely fascinating and very appealing, the theory of the saxonization and northernization of the Gospel has ended up permeating every single level upon which an analysis of the poem can be carried out, becoming a sort of a priori starting point that may lead scholars to over-interpretation and, therefore, hinder them from developing a perhaps deeper insight into the poem.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/30/re-writing-discourse-features-speech-acts-in-heliand/feed/ 0 The Public Penance of Louis the Pious: A New Edition of the Episcoporum de poenitentia, quam Hludowicus imperator professus est, relatio Compendiensis (833) http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/21/the-public-penance-of-louis-the-pious-a-new-edition-of-the-episcoporum-de-poenitentia-quam-hludowicus-imperator-professus-est-relatio-compendiensis-833/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/21/the-public-penance-of-louis-the-pious-a-new-edition-of-the-episcoporum-de-poenitentia-quam-hludowicus-imperator-professus-est-relatio-compendiensis-833/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 03:06:09 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33006 For centuries, the reign of Charlemagne’s son and sole heir, Louis the Pious (r. 814-840), has largely been remembered and understood as one marked by controversy.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/21/the-public-penance-of-louis-the-pious-a-new-edition-of-the-episcoporum-de-poenitentia-quam-hludowicus-imperator-professus-est-relatio-compendiensis-833/feed/ 0 Knowledge for Its Own Sake? A Practical Humanist in the Carolingian Age http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/08/knowledge-for-its-own-sake-a-practical-humanist-in-the-carolingian-age/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/08/knowledge-for-its-own-sake-a-practical-humanist-in-the-carolingian-age/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:49:10 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29946 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/08/knowledge-for-its-own-sake-a-practical-humanist-in-the-carolingian-age/feed/ 0 “What If … Charlemagne’s Other Sons had survived?” Charlemagne’s Sons and the Problems of Royal Succession http://www.medievalists.net/2011/11/20/%e2%80%9cwhat-if-charlemagne%e2%80%99s-other-sons-had-survived%e2%80%9d-charlemagne%e2%80%99s-sons-and-the-problems-of-royal-succession/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/11/20/%e2%80%9cwhat-if-charlemagne%e2%80%99s-other-sons-had-survived%e2%80%9d-charlemagne%e2%80%99s-sons-and-the-problems-of-royal-succession/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 05:20:43 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=27265 On January 28th 814, Charlemagne died at the age of 72. His son Louis the Pious succeeded his father into kingship and empire.

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