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...