Poetry, Patronage, and Politics: Epic Saints’ Lives in Western Francia, 800-1000
t: Monastic authors in western Francia during the central Middle Ages composed and exchanged Latin verse saints’ lives (vitae metricae) to create communities of saints, emperors, bishops, teachers, and students
Unwilling Pilgrimage: Vikings, Relics, and the Politics of Exile during the Carolingian era
Unwilling Pilgrimage: Vikings, Relics, and the Politics of Exile during the Carolingian era By Daniel C. DeSelm PhD Dissertation, University of Michigan, 2009…
Volcanoes and the Climate Forcing of Carolingian Europe, A.D. 750–950
Revolutionary advances of the natural sciences will transform our understanding of the human past. This case study supports that thesis by connecting new data arising from the last decade’s scientific work in palaeoclimatology with the history of the Carolingian empire.
Digging Ditches in Early Medieval Europe
Digging Ditches in Early Medieval Europe By Paolo Squatriti Past and Present, Vol.176:1 (2002) Introduction: In the Royal Frankish Annals the year 793…
Episcopacy and apostolic succession according to Hincmar of Reims
Episcopacy and apostolic succession according to Hincmar of Reims By George Tavard Theological Studies, Vol. 34 (1973) Introduction: Hincmar, a monk from the…
Viking Age Arms and Armor Originating in the Frankish Kingdom
In the examination of material remains, illustrations, and capitularies, the reason why Carolingian arms and armor were prized amongst the Viking nations can be ascertained and evidence found as to how the Vikings came to possess such valued items.
Germanic Women: Mundium and Property, 400-1000
Germanic Women: Mundium and Property, 400-1000 Dunn, Kimberlee Harper (University of North Texas) M.A. Thesis (Science), University of North Texas, August (2006) Abstract…
Warranty and good lordship in twelfth century England
Warranty and good lordship in twelfth century England Hyams, Paul (California Institute of Technology University of Oxford) California Institute of Technology, January (1986) Abstract Already…
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Quarrel Over Medieval Women’s Power
Such periodization, splitting the Middle Ages at the eleventh century, right in the middle of a time of considerable change, is distorting to the more general history, but creates an even more distorting periodization in medieval women’s history.
Health Education through the Ages
I shall group my remarks around two questions: whose was the task to educate, and who was to be educated?
Lex Salica and the Carolingian ‘Frankish’ Past
Lex Salica and the Carolingian ‘Frankish’ Past Turnbull, Anna Revealing Records II Conference, King’s College London (2010) Abstract The year 751 is regarded…
Currency Change in Pre-millennial Catalonia: Coinage, Counts and Economics
Currency Change in Pre-millennial Catalonia: Coinage, Counts and Economics Jarrett, Jonathan Numismatic Chronicle, No.169 (2009) Abstract Barcelona in the late tenth century was on…
Viking Trade and Settlement in Continental Western Europe
Viking Trade and Settlement in Continental Western Europe Edited by Iben Skibsted Klæsøe Museum Tusculanum Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-87-635-0530-7 Publisher’s Synopsis: The European…
Almsgiving and the Formation of Early Medieval Societies, A.D. 700-1025
This dissertation undertakes an investigation of a behavior practiced by kings and commoners alike: charity to the poor or, to adopt the term favored then, almsgiving (eleemosina).
The Historiography of Elites in Gaul
I take the term ‘elites’ to signal a call for new approaches. It is a more inclusive term than ‘aristocracy’ or ‘nobility’. It includes kings (and queens) as well as aristocrats. It includes clergy as well as laity. It also calls us to look below the level of the high aristocracy: how broad is an elite? Can it include what historians of Anglo-Saxon England would call ‘the gentry’? How many elites are there?
Sacred commodities: the circulation of medieval relics
Could one reasonably describe a human body or portions thereof as destined for circulation?
Carolingian Chant: Roman, Frankish-Roman, Frankish
Carolingian Chant: Roman, Frankish-Roman, Frankish By RICHARD L. CROCKER The Gentle Voice of Teachers: Aspects of Learning in the Carolingian Age, edited by…
Unauthorised miracles in mid-ninth-century Dijon and the Carolingian church reforms
In the early 840s, Archbishop Amolo of Lyons wrote to one of his suffragan bishops about extraordinary miracles reportedly taking place at Dijon in the wake of the arrival of mysterious new relics.
Carolingian Buildings at Aachen: Their Dating and Meaning
Throughout the twentieth-century, a thorough critical analysis of Aachen’s fundamental Carolingian buildings that would take account of a wide range of pertinent viewpoints has remained a siren-like challenge for architectural historians and archaeologists of Medieval Europe’s beginnings.
Matters Of Time: Manipulation Of Memory In Early Irish Hagiography
Matters Of Time: Manipulation Of Memory In Early Irish Hagiography Auslander, Diane Peters Paper given at the 22nd Annual UC Celtic Studies Conference, March…
What was Emperor Augustus doing at a Carolingian banquet (ANTH. LAT.2 719f)?
What was Emperor Augustus doing at a Carolingian banquet (ANTH. LAT.2 719f)? By John J. Contreni Rheinisches Museum für Philologie, New Series 146 (2003)…
Representation c. 800: Arab, Byzantine, Carolingian
Representation c. 800: Arab, Byzantine, Carolingian By Leslie Brubaker Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (Sixth Series), No.19 (2009) Abstract: What could or…
Monastic Medicine: A Unique Dualism Between Natural Science and Spiritual Healing
One of the most important medical developments of this time was the introduction of medieval monastic hospitals, which arose as a source of medical care in the early Middle Ages.
Crocodiles and Crusades: Egypt in Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso
Crocodiles and Crusades: Egypt in Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato and Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso Cavallo, Jo Ann Arthuriana 21.1 (2011) Abstract Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato and Ariosto’s Orlando…
Carolingian Propaganda: Kingship by the Hand of God
Carolingian Propaganda: Kingship by the Hand of God By Isak M. C. Sexson Distinguished Senior Thesis, Pacific University, 2009 Introduction: The Carolingians laid…