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

November 26, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Battle of Fontenoy - The battle as depicted in the fourteenth-century Grandes Chroniques de France. Grandes Chroniques de France, France, Paris, Cote : Français 73 , Fol. 150

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.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Annales Bertiniani (Annals of St. Bertin), Annales Fuldenses (Annals of Fulda), Annales Xantenses (Annals of Xanten), Battle of Fontenoy (841AD), Bishop Prudentius of Troyes, Carolingians, Charlemagne, Charles the Bald, Christianity, Early Middle Ages, Eighth Century, France, Germany, Gerward, Italy, Law, Lex Saxsonum (Law of the Saxons), Lothair (Lothar) I, Louis the German, Ninth Century, Nithard, Paganism, Pippin (Pepin) I of Aquitaine, Politics, Saxons, Saxony, Stellinga

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

January 27, 2013 By Medievalists.net

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.