One of the most interesting things about studying the tenth century is the great variety and originality of its written sources. While the period’s image problem has long roots in the perceived dearth of available evidence, surviving tenth-century texts often seem to defy typologies and literary models, which are often drawn from other, better-studied eras.…
The Primordia de coenobiis Gandesheimensis of Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, likely composed in the 970s, is often used by historians as an excellent example of female commemoration – that is, how early medieval women, especially in tenth-century Saxony, preserved the memory of their family’s history. In this case, the commemoration came from a convent of canonesses founded…
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.…
Hi! I’m Alice Hicklin, the second postdoctoral researcher working on ‘After Empire’. I’m based in Berlin, where the title of our project is ‘Legal Pasts and Normative Orders’. For our contribution, we seek to assess the role of law in the tenth and early eleventh centuries. This is an important objective and area of research,…
The twitter page for the After Empire project is now live! We will be tweeting on @AfterEmpireUNUP about tenth-century history, news and events.
‘Imitation and Innovation: Uses of the Past in the Medieval and Early Modern World’ The Eleventh MEMSA Conference, 11th – 12th July 2017, Durham University The use of the past is a theme which transcends disciplinary boundaries, and has contemporary as well as historical resonance.This is manifested in a physical sense through the moulding of…
Hello! I’m Sarah Greer, one of the postdoctoral research fellows working on After Empire: Using and Not Using the Past in the Tenth Century. One strand of my research interests is in how burial sites were used in the tenth century. More specifically, I’m interested in royal mausolea – that is, the monasteries and cathedrals…
