Clemens Gantner

October 15, 2018 | Clemens Gantner | HI Research Blog |

The current blog entry is dedicated to the relations of Louis II of Italy (840-875) with the Byzantine Empire in the earliest phase of his reign in Italy.

Louis¹ was the oldest son of Emperor Lothar I (840-855) and thereby a great-grandson of Charlemagne. He was born in approximately 825: It is indeed strange that we know...

Walter Pohl

October 1, 2018 | Walter Pohl | HI Research Blog |

Thirty years ago, my first book came out: it was about the Avars, written in German and had a good 500 pages, about 150 of which were footnotes. In spite of that, the book still sells.¹  In many respects, writing it had been a venture into the unknown: far beyond the Latin and Greek world with which I was familiar, into the Central...