Virtual Exhibitions
Post-Medieval Charlemagne
Charlemagne maintains a prominent place in the modern psyche. A leading economic…
Medieval Manuscripts & Imagery
Images of Charlemagne appeared in manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages. This exhibition…
Recent Blog Posts
Bruce Saunders on Adam de la Halle's 'Or est Baiars'
Nova’s concert in September 2017 was called ‘A Renaissance Menagerie’. Sourcing pieces for inclusion – music about animals or with animals in them – I came across the Baiars song, words and music both likely to have been by Adam de la Halle. The programme already included glorious soaring pieces…
Jane Everson - Charlemagne in Modena: Literature and Life
The conference held at the Accademia nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena on January 18 and 19 brought together scholars of the Italian Carolingian narrative tradition and focussed especially on the figure of Luigi Pulci and Il Morgante maggiore. Pulci claims that the stories of Charlemagne have been…
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Eric J. Goldberg - Charlemagne’s Ghost
Few scholars would disagree that the Frankish emperor Charlemagne (768–814) and his dynasty – the Carolingians – played a fundamental role in the formation of Europe. Yet the long-term consequences of the collapse of the Carolingian empire in 888 are still a matter of debate. On Saturday October 7 this…
Marianne Ailes on Charlemagne in Berlin
It was a particular pleasure to be talking about Charlemagne in Germany at the recent Texts in Transit Conference held in the Sonderforshungsbereich ‘Episteme in Bewegung’ of the Freie Universität in Berlin. My paper, looking at the way Charlemagne narratives were disseminated in the multilingual context of the medieval British…
