Saxony Archives - Medievalists.net

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

Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance

November 23, 2014 By Medievalists.net

Carolingian Aachen Gospels (c. 820)

This study opens with a historical account of Corbie from its foundation until the reign of Charles the Simple, which clarifies the political importance of the abbey and its relations with rulers and bishops.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Carolingian Renaissance, Charlemagne, Charles III 'The Simple' of France, Christianity, Eighth Century, Hamburg, Monasticism, Ninth Century, Politics, Religious Life, Saxony, Scandinavia, Theology