Study of History
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Correctio: Expressions of Nostalgia in Carolingian Europe
Emotions history has been dominated by modern historians and there has been very minimal engagement with the historiography of an emotions…-based analysis of the Middle Ages, which has led to modern-centric views and theories that undermine the histories and societies classified as medieval. As Barbara Rosenwein remarks, many historians including John Huizinga, who spoke of the childlike and violent nature of medieval emotional life, as well as Peter N. Stearns and Carol Z. Sterns, both of whom assert that virtually anything pre-modern cannot be considered true emotionology, are used to perceiving the Middle Ages as a convenient…
Eric LaiFeb 13
Carolingian Perceptions of Traveling
During the eighth and ninth centuries, continental Europe underwent the largest military expansion that was not matched since the Roman…Empire under Valentinian I and for many centuries after. How such an immense territory was administered and centralized depended on the communications and efficiency of travel. In Rosamond McKitterick’s comprehensive survey Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity, Charlemagne’s travels are well documented, she relies heavily on Adolf Gauert’s map from the 1965 Charlemagne exhibition at Aachen, which tracked Charlemagne’s movement particularly involving military conquests.Eric LaiJan 16
Study of History
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