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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

by Sandra Alvarez November 26, 2014

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

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.

Charlemagne as emperor on this coin - Photo PHGCOM

by Medievalists.net June 15, 2014

Conferences

How the Saxons helped Charlemagne become Emperor

What role did the Saxons have in Charlemagne’s imperial coronation?

by Sandra Alvarez March 2, 2014

Articles

Writing conquest: traditions of Anglo-Saxon invasion and resistance in the twelfth century

Writing Conquest examines the ways in which Latin, Old English, and Middle English twelfth-century historical and pseudo-historical texts remembered and reconstructed three formative moments of Anglo-Saxon invasion and resistance…