Henry II – After Empire

The Quedlinburg Annals: writing the Ottonian past in the 11th century

Shortly after the turn of the first millennium CE, a new history of the Ottonian empire was written. The Quedlinburg Annals, a chronicle of world history created at the imperial Saxon convent of Quedlinburg, is one of the most important contemporary historiographical works we have for Ottonian Empire. The Annals track the history of the…

Notions of belonging in the tenth century: the example of Abbo of Saint-Germain and the ‘natio Tungrorum’

June 13, 2017Max DiesenbergerResearch BlogAbbo of Saint-Germain, Carolingians, Charles the Simple, Henry II, Identity, Liege, Lotharingia, Sermons, Social Cohesion, Solidarity, Tongeren

In the long tenth century various horizontal and vertical bonds as well as social and political boundaries were changed due to the fragmentation of the Carolingian empire which produced a variety of power relationships. These offered multiple possibilities of adherence to social entities which their contemporaries could align themselves with, or be assigned to. New…

After Empire

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

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The Quedlinburg Annals: writing the Ottonian past in the 11th century