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Using the Merovingian past in the eleventh century: Odorannus of Sens

September 18, 2018Sarah GreerResearch BlogCapetian, Chronicle, Clotild, Clovis, Merovingian, Monastic Legends, Monasticism, Narrative, Odorannus of Sens, Origin Stories, Robert the Pious, Saint-Pierre-le-Vif

It’s no surprise that monks and nuns in the high middle ages used the Merovingian past when they were retelling their foundation legends. From the tenth century onwards, we see an increasing number of monasteries claiming that they had Merovingian founders, usually opting for big-name figures such as Clovis or Dagobert. This creation of a…

Praying for kings and bishops in late tenth-century northern France

There is a tendency amongst medieval scholars to leave the evidence of liturgical books to liturgical specialists, and scholars of the post-Carolingian world are no different in this respect. There are good reasons for this: surviving medieval liturgical manuscripts are not simply service books, compiled to support the minister in the delivery of rites, but…

After Empire

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

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Using the Merovingian past in the eleventh century: Odorannus of Sens

Praying for kings and bishops in late tenth-century northern France