Government – After Empire

Traders, Raiders, Settlers and Conquerors: England 700-1066

Traders, Raiders, Settlers and Conquerors: England 700-1066 This was the title of a highly successful continuing professional development workshop for around 30 secondary school teachers held at the King’s Manor, courtesy of the University of York, on Saturday 16th June 2018. Jointly organised with the Historical Association it was delivered by 4 members of the…

Carolingian nostalgia and Carolingian assemblies

January 16, 2018Simon MacleanResearch BlogAdalard of Corbie, Annals of St-Bertin, Assemblies, Carloman II, Charlemagne, Charles the Bald, Government, Hincmar of Rheims, Notker of St-Gall, Regino of Prüm

Given the unpredictability of politics in our own time, it shouldn’t require a great leap of imagination to realise that those who lived in the last days of the Carolingian Empire might not have realised that that’s what they were doing. But like any polity that lasts across several generations, the empire inevitably became nostalgic…

After Empire

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

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Traders, Raiders, Settlers and Conquerors: England 700-1066

Carolingian nostalgia and Carolingian assemblies