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Canonica capitularique auctoritate fultus: King Conrad II, the Carolingian legal past and the censuales of Speyer (1025)

June 19, 2019Stefan EsdersResearch BlogCanon Law, Capitulary, Charter, Conrad II, Diploma, Law, Primary Source, Salians, Source Translation, Speyer

For anyone dealing with medieval royal diplomatics, confirmation charters are a very common thing. Whenever a new ruler was appointed, one of his first acts was to renew charters that had once been given by his predecessors and which were now presented to him for confirmation. While through its renewal a document achieved new legal…

Uses of Carolingian law under early Salian rule: An example from Speyer

In most accounts of modern German historiography, the period of the Ottonian and Salian rulers is featured as a period of national origins. The perspective adopted by the HERA project, however, is different. Since it focuses on the uses of the past, it allows us to look at this period from a different perspective. The…

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Using and Not Using the Past in the Crisis of the Carolingian World, c. 900-1050

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Canonica capitularique auctoritate fultus: King Conrad II, the Carolingian legal past and the censuales of Speyer (1025)

Uses of Carolingian law under early Salian rule: An example from Speyer