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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

How the Saxons helped Charlemagne become Emperor

June 15, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Charlemagne as emperor on this coin - Photo PHGCOM

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

Filed Under: Conferences Tagged With: Charlemagne, Eighth Century, Papacy, Politics, Saxons

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

March 2, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Norman Conquest

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…

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Anglo-Norman, Anglo-Saxon, Battle of Brunanburh, Early Middle Ages, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Germany, Harold II Godwinson, Henry of Huntingdon, High Middle Ages, History of the Kings of Britain, Jutes, Latin, Medieval burials, Middle English, Norman Conquest, Old English, Saxons, Tenth century, Twelfth Century, William of Malmesbury