Clemens Gantner

July 1, 2018 | Clemens Gantner | HI Research Blog |

On the new collaborative volume edited by Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner, Cinzia Grifoni and Marianne Pollheimer-Mohaupt.

In the coming days, the volume ‘Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities’ is about to appear as part of the De Gruyter Millennium Studies Series – in fact it is going to be on...

Thom Gobbitt

June 15, 2018 | Thom Gobbitt | HI Research Blog |

The early medieval Lombard laws comprise legislation issued in the name of various Lombard kings, from Rothari in 643 CE through until Aistulph in 755 CE, edited in the nineteenth century as the Edictus Langobardorum (Bluhme, ed., 1868). These laws comprise one of the many ‘barbarian’ law-codes that were written and used across...

Walter Pohl

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

Are you interested in medieval history, or in the way in which the study of the past helps to explain modern problems with identity and ethnicity? Then this blog offers you regular research reports and news on many aspects of medieval identities, on their construction and significance. ‘Identity’ is in many respects a problematic term....

Stefan Donecker

June 1, 2018 | Stefan Donecker | HI Research Blog |

Origins of a German Master Narrative, 1500–1830

“Ancient is the German’s urge to wander; presumably it led him from the Orient to settle by the six rivers of Germany, and made him see the glory of Rome beyond the Alps. The migrations of the Cimbri, the speeches of Ariovistus and the words of Hengist, as recorded by Bede, all...

Jelle Wassenaar

May 15, 2018 | Jelle Wassenaar | HI Research Blog |

Rather of Verona, patria, and belonging in the tenth century

Although often dismissed as a dark “age of iron”, the tenth century has also been paraded as the period that laid the foundations for the birth of later nation states. After being spawned by the destruction of the Carolingian imperial centre, so goes this narrative,...

Max Diesenberger

May 1, 2018 | Max Diesenberger | HI Research Blog |

One of the most traumatic experiences of the ninth century, as Janet Nelson puts it, was the battle of Fontenoy, when the army of Charles the Bald and Louis the German met the troops of Lothar and of his nephew Pippin of Aquitaine on 25 June 841. The battle was significant in two respects: the heirs of Louis the Pious...