Marriage – After Empire

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

May 1, 2018Sarah GreerResearch BlogCarolingians, Dynasty, Genealogy, Marriage, Ottonians, Primary Source, Salians, Source Guide

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…

A tenth-century murder? The strange death of Queen Bertilla

The long tenth century provides plenty of stories of powerful women. Sometimes, we can get to know their lives fairly well. In other cases, they only leave scarce traces in written records. Queen Bertilla (c. 855−915) is one of the latter. For that reason, she is not the best known of the women that fill…

After Empire

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

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

A tenth-century murder? The strange death of Queen Bertilla