Genealogy – After Empire

All in the family? A beginner’s guide to Carolingian genealogies in the 10th and 11th century

One of the genres of source that I’m closely working with as part of the After Empire project is genealogies. Genealogies are especially interesting texts both for the questions that this project is investigating and for my own research interests: how do people engage with the past? And how in particular do they engage with…

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…

After Empire

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

Tag: Genealogy

All in the family? A beginner’s guide to Carolingian genealogies in the 10th and 11th century

Embodying Dynasties II: cults, politics, and genealogies