100% my experience at A level in the late 2000s

Also, _The All-Pervading Melodious Drumbeat_, a biography of the Tibetan Buddhist master Ra Lotsawa. I've read a fair amount of Tibetan Buddhist literature this year and it's all very funny because it's so jargon-heavy it reminds me of the Soviet propaganda my wife studies

_The Middle Ground_, by Richard White. Inspired in particular by Ben Raffield, one of the things I'd like to pursue further is how histories of Native Americans can inform studies of the vikings in the Carolingian world

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Robert the Pious’ Imperial Beard

You wouldn’t think it was that important, but a fussy Poirot-tache was a defining feature of how Carolingian rulers were represented throughout the ninth century. Here’s Charlemagne: A portrait denier...

Flodoard describes Arnulf as having a _nepos_ of the same name, and given the different meanings of the word _nepos_ there are six different candidates (and also some of them might not be real)

"Hi, welcome to the long tenth century. Have you met Bishop Adalbero, Bishop Adalbero, Bishop Adalbero, Bishop Adalbero, Bishop Adalbero, Bishop Adalbero, Bishop Adalbero, Bishop Adalbero, Archbishop Adalbero, and Archbishop Adalbero?"

This week's Charter A Week: so we've seen ideas about kingship around the millennium. What was the environment in which they were developing, and how close was it to going 'boom'? salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2024/09/24/c...

Charter A Week 123/2: The Burgundian Powderkeg

Last week we talked about Robert the Pious’ Cluniac kingship. This week, we’ll talk about what on Earth is going on in Burgundy. Now, as I discovered that I changed my mind about what to do for 994, w...

Kings in the middle ages seem to all have the same name, Charles, Louis, Henry. Arnulf is definitely not one of them. I looked at how Arnulf is a name with important Carolingian meaning and why that matters #medievalsky

Keeping it in the Family

What is the meaning of Arnulf's weird name?

Hi new followers, it’s lovely to meet you! Fans of the #middleages@ralphtorta.bsky.social, drawing on the things I work on (1/5)

And finally, it's niche but I'm proud of it: the c11th Peace of God has been called a revolution in politics, society, and lawmaking. But how do we know of their decrees? What do the manuscript traditions reveal about these peace-making councils? salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2024/03/14/o...

On the Manuscript Traditions of the Peace of God

Did you know that there are almost four hundred manuscript witnesses to Carolingian capitularies? I didn’t until this morning. Don’t get me wrong, I knew that there were lots of them – that’s going to...