Medievalists.net » Ottonians http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medieval Fort Building 101 http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/24/medieval-fort-building-101/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/24/medieval-fort-building-101/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:12:36 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61301 What does it take to build a fortification in the 10th century?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/24/medieval-fort-building-101/feed/ 0 Palaces, Itineraries and Political Order in the Post-Carolingian Kingdoms http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/17/palaces-itineraries-political-order-post-carolingian-kingdoms/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/17/palaces-itineraries-political-order-post-carolingian-kingdoms/#comments Sat, 18 Oct 2014 03:26:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53408 What did the same-but-different post-Carolingian kingdoms owe to their predecessors, and how should we characterise that debt if not in simple terms of continuity or change?

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/17/palaces-itineraries-political-order-post-carolingian-kingdoms/feed/ 0 Banditry and the Clash of Powers in 14th-Century Thrace: Momcilo and his Fragmented Memory http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 01:54:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52418 In the 14th century, a time of civil wars, religious and dynastic strifes, epidemics, natural disasters and miserable living conditions for the wider strata in the cities and the countryside that increased migratory movements, banditry, an indigenous phenomenon in the Balkan mountainous regions, intermingled with the intensified political struggles.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/07/banditry-clash-powers-14th-century-thrace-momcilo-fragmented-memory/feed/ 0 War and nation-building in Widukind of Corvey’s Deeds of the Saxons http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/13/war-nation-building-widukind-corveys-deeds-saxons/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/13/war-nation-building-widukind-corveys-deeds-saxons/#comments Tue, 13 May 2014 12:37:02 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49560 Military conflicts constituted a central function of early medieval rulership and, correspondingly, of the historiographical tradition. War and violence in the Middle Ages have been the subject of various studies, which are above all devoted to warfare and to the army.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/13/war-nation-building-widukind-corveys-deeds-saxons/feed/ 0 Food and prejudice: a western ambassador in Byzantium http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/09/food-prejudice-western-ambassador-byzantium/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/09/food-prejudice-western-ambassador-byzantium/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2014 20:32:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48886 On the 4th of June, 968, Liutprand of Cremona made landfall at Constaninople as ambassador for the German emperor Otto I.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/09/food-prejudice-western-ambassador-byzantium/feed/ 0 The Ottonians and the Word: Gospel Books as Objects, Images, and Texts http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/28/ottonians-word-gospel-books-objects-images-texts/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/28/ottonians-word-gospel-books-objects-images-texts/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2014 03:07:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48623 I would like to consider issues of the material texts, literacy and the status of the written word in Ottonian Germany, as they coalesce at the site of deluxe liturgical manuscripts.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/28/ottonians-word-gospel-books-objects-images-texts/feed/ 0 Civilization versus Barbarians? Fortification Techniques and Politics in Carolingian and Ottonian Borderlands http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/civilization-versus-barbarians-fortification-techniques-and-politics-in-carolingian-and-ottonian-borderlands/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/civilization-versus-barbarians-fortification-techniques-and-politics-in-carolingian-and-ottonian-borderlands/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 07:13:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37271 In many ways the situation on the north-eastern and eastern frontier of the Carolingian and Ottonian empires is an early medieval replica of phenomena associated with the frontiers of the Later Roman Empire.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/civilization-versus-barbarians-fortification-techniques-and-politics-in-carolingian-and-ottonian-borderlands/feed/ 0 Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture: The Artistic Patronage of Otto III and Henry II http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/15/ottonian-imperial-art-and-portraiture-the-artistic-patronage-of-otto-iii-and-henry-ii/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/15/ottonian-imperial-art-and-portraiture-the-artistic-patronage-of-otto-iii-and-henry-ii/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:31:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30165 Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture represents the first art historical consideration of the patronage of the Ottonian Emperors Otto III (983-1002) and Henry II (1002-1024).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/15/ottonian-imperial-art-and-portraiture-the-artistic-patronage-of-otto-iii-and-henry-ii/feed/ 0 Noch Einmal 918-919: Of the ritualized demise of kings and of political rituals in general http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/noch-einmal-918-919-of-the-ritualized-demise-of-kings-and-of-political-rituals-in-general/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/noch-einmal-918-919-of-the-ritualized-demise-of-kings-and-of-political-rituals-in-general/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:52:19 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=29052 As 918 drew to a wintry close, King Conrad lay dying. His reign had been short. Perhaps, as Adalbert of Magdeburg later suggested, the Franconian ruler had been exhausted by bitter feuds against his former peers, the German 'dukes'.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/02/05/noch-einmal-918-919-of-the-ritualized-demise-of-kings-and-of-political-rituals-in-general/feed/ 0 Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Her Works and Their Messages http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/08/hrotsvit-of-gandersheim-her-works-and-their-messages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/08/hrotsvit-of-gandersheim-her-works-and-their-messages/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:24:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=25175 Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, a poetess and playwright during the tenth century, created a body of work that both reflected and instructed people in her society.

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