[ ... ] Greek and the Carolingian reception of Martianus Capella".
Annette's very wide-ranging talk was interested in the ritual humiliation of ... more
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Slavery and early medieval economic growth
@ 2013-02-21 – 10:03:25
[ ... ] as the motor of the Carolingian economy, however, is there isn't much evidence for a large-scale slave trade in the Carolingian world. Even Joachim ... more -
Early medieval comparisons: kings east and west
@ 2013-02-03 – 19:06:48
[ ... ] making rulers: Carolingian and Abbasid inauguration-rites in comparative context', which, as usual with Jinty, made a number of subtle and ... more -
IMC 2012 report 3: Hincmar and the rest
@ 2012-12-31 – 19:20:25
[ ... ] Hincmar and the nun: Carolingian gender order at the Synod of Douzy 874 In which I justified talking about topless nuns by invoking the patriarchy ... more -
IMC 2012 report 2: an early medieval sandwich
@ 2012-11-27 – 22:02:28
[ ... ] less important to Carolingian monasticism than sometimes been thought and that there was less uniformity around. Hildemar's commentary shows more ... more -
Medieval social networks 1: concepts, intellectual networks and tools
@ 2012-09-25 – 15:17:09
[ ... ] particular issue for Carolingian intellectual history because of Alcuin. We have by far more letters of Alcuin preserved than of any other ... more -
Reading "Kim" in Echternach
@ 2012-08-30 – 09:41:51
[ ... ] empires – Roman, Carolingian, British – which have had to deal with this problem in a particular acute form. You don't, generally, see an ... more -
Hincmar at IMC 2012 (and me too!)
@ 2012-07-08 – 08:31:06
My latest excuse for not having put anything up on this blog is that I’ve been writing two conference papers. I have now given the first of these, at … more -
Way down upon the Putrid River (that's where my charters are turning ever)
@ 2012-03-30 – 15:28:53
Given I am now, in theory, interested in charters, I have started reading some and come across a collection which has the highest proportion of weird … more -
Beware of the northerners
@ 2012-03-25 – 20:16:50
Last month at the IHR Earlier Middle Ages seminar we briefly contemplated the end times, when James Palmer from St Andrews talked about "Apocalyptic … more
