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Thursday, 14 October 2021

1016 and all that

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  On this day of course took place, 955 years ago, the battle of Hastings. The story gets told and retold every year. Walter Carruthers Sell...
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Sunday, 29 August 2021

Clovis takes to the stage and the end of Roman Gaul (481 - 486)

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As we get to this point in  Adhemar's narrative., we've got to deal with a thorny (though pretty minor to non-specialists in late Ro...
Saturday, 28 August 2021

More on the origins of the Merovingian kingdom from Adhemar of Chabannes - Chapters 6 and 7 of the Historia Francorum (c.460 - 481)

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Thursday, 26 August 2021

An eleventh century monk's take on the migration era and the origins of the Merovingian dynasty - the Historia Francorum of Adhemar of Chabannes chapters 2 - 5 (c.1200 BC - 460 AD)

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More than a week has passed and progress has been made with the translation of Adhemar of Chabannes. I must say that I've been really en...
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...
Thursday, 12 August 2021

A somewhat overrated but still very important event: The Treaty of Verdun (843)

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As background to my series' on the last Carolingian kings (starting with the mini-series on Charles the Simple) and ton the Ottonians, I...