Burial centres – After Empire

Embodying Dynasties II: cults, politics, and genealogies

September 5, 2017Sarah GreerResearch BlogBurial centres, Capetians, Carolingians, Genealogy, Lorsch, Merovingians, Narrative, Odorannus of Sens, Saint-Pierre-le-Vif, Saints' Cults, Salians, Stenay

As my earlier blog post laid out, I’m interested in looking at royal mausolea as sites of historical memory in the tenth and early eleventh centuries. Over the past year I’ve started to put together a database of known burial sites of as many royals as possible from the Merovingian, Carolingian, Capetian, Ottonian, Anglo-Saxon, and Lombard…

Embodying dynasties: tombs, bodies and politics in the tenth century

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…

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Embodying Dynasties II: cults, politics, and genealogies

Embodying dynasties: tombs, bodies and politics in the tenth century