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Thursday, 29 December 2022
On this day in history 3: following in your grandfather's footsteps
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And so we're back again with another Carolingian imperial coronation, one which followed almost exactly 75 years after the one we looke...
Sunday, 6 November 2022
From the sources 6: why write an autobiography in the twelfth century?
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Meet Guibert de Nogent (1053 – 1125), the abbot of a monastery in Picardy, northern France. Guibert’s seventy years of life coincided with...
Monday, 21 March 2022
Hercules and the Carolingians: corruption and classicism in the poetry of Theodulf of Orleans
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A rather naturalistic depiction of Hercules from the Leiden Aratea (c.816 - 840), a Carolingian copy of an astronomical treatise by the ...
Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Getting acquainted with Adhemar of Chabannes, in which I also discover an eleventh century monk's take on the Trojan war
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Yesterday, I started on a project I'd been resolved to do for a good few months now. After I translated, as part of my undergraduate the...
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