In collaboration with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the After Empire project is pleased to announce the launch of a new website which will track ninth- to eleventh-century Catalan manuscripts, part of Prof. Dr. Matthias M. Tischler and Ekaterina Novokhatko’s research on ‘From Carolingian Periphery to European Central Region: The Written Genesis of Catalonia’. The…
One of our project PIs, Professor Simon MacLean, has recently published a new monograph. Ottonian Queenship is the first major study in English of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty (919-1024). The Ottonians were a family from Saxony who are often regarded as the founders of the medieval German kingdom. They were the most successful of…
Our PI in Barcelona, Matthias M. Tischler, has recently given an interview to Catalunya Cristiana. In his interview, Matthias presents the aims of our HERA-project “After Empire” (UNUP), discussing in this framework the more or less unknown richness of the legacy of Carolingian and post-Carolingian manuscripts from long tenth-century Catalonia and the necessity of an adequate presentation…
On 17th May 2017, in the leafy environs of Topoi Haus Dahlem, the Freie Universität Berlin hosted the inaugural conference of our project, ‘After Empire: Using and Not Using the Past’, funded by HERA and bolstered by a selfless donation from Professor Patrick Geary’s Annelise Meier Fund. With an intentionally open theme and speakers ranging…
The programme for After Empire: the inaugural conference of ‘Using and Not Using the Past’ is now available online! From May 17-19, 2017, we will have three days of papers and presentations from our project members as well as other historians. These will include PhD students, early career researchers and senior academics. You can find the dedicated…
Our resource page is now live on our website! We have the first version of our list of primary sources from 850-1050, along with the collected research blog posts that examine some of these sources in more detail. You can find the page here, or from the drop-down menu under Resources at the top of the…
The Vatican library has digitised a host of new manuscripts, including a beautiful Ottonian evangeliary, Reg.lat.15. These images are now available to view online. More details about the digitised manuscripts at the Vatican library can be found here: https://macrotypography.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/ottonian-artistry.html
In addition to our own sessions, the After Empire-associated project Transformations of the Carolingian World also has an exciting line-up of tenth-century history papers at the 2017 International Medieval Congress at Leeds. Session I Moderator: Irene van Renswoude, (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, Den Haag) Richard Corradini (Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften,…
After Empire is very pleased to announce our two sessions “Tenth-Century Uses of the Past” at the 2017 International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds. Both of our panels ask how authors and communities dealt with, imagined, used and not used the various pasts available to them after the end of the Carolingian Empire.…
The twitter page for the After Empire project is now live! We will be tweeting on @AfterEmpireUNUP about tenth-century history, news and events.
