The #TreatyOfBonn established a border and friendly relations between #France (#WestFrancia) and #Germany (#EastFrancia) on #ThisDayInHistory in 921. The deal was signed in the #RhineRiver by #CharlesTheSimple, a #Carolingian king, and #HenryTheFowler, the first #Ottonian king.
November 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
The #TreatyOfBonn established a border and friendly relations between #France (#WestFrancia) and #Germany (#EastFrancia) on #ThisDayInHistory in 921. The deal was signed in the #RhineRiver by #CharlesTheSimple, a #Carolingian king, and #HenryTheFowler, the first #Ottonian king.
A bishop records a ghost encounter in Walsleben to affirm resurrection, embedding supernatural events within a historical chronicle of Saxons and Ottonian rulers.
Why Medieval People Feared the Dead - Ghost Stories That Still Disturb
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October 29, 2026 at 1:26 PM
A bishop records a ghost encounter in Walsleben to affirm resurrection, embedding supernatural events within a historical chronicle of Saxons and Ottonian rulers.
The Construction of Ottonian Kingship
Antoni Grabowski
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Antoni Grabowski
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October 22, 2026 at 12:01 AM
The Construction of Ottonian Kingship
Antoni Grabowski
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Antoni Grabowski
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Bataille/medievalist alert.
https://archive.org/details/IA41548411_0044/page/61/mode/2up
"acephala" in the meaning "rebel" ("without a head")
From a work on the writings of the Ottonian-era writer Regino of Prüm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regino_of_Prüm
https://archive.org/details/IA41548411_0044/page/61/mode/2up
"acephala" in the meaning "rebel" ("without a head")
From a work on the writings of the Ottonian-era writer Regino of Prüm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regino_of_Prüm
The Latinity of the Chronica of Regino of Prüm : Dorman, Olivia Nelson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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October 20, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Bataille/medievalist alert.
https://archive.org/details/IA41548411_0044/page/61/mode/2up
"acephala" in the meaning "rebel" ("without a head")
From a work on the writings of the Ottonian-era writer Regino of Prüm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regino_of_Prüm
https://archive.org/details/IA41548411_0044/page/61/mode/2up
"acephala" in the meaning "rebel" ("without a head")
From a work on the writings of the Ottonian-era writer Regino of Prüm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regino_of_Prüm
Archaeologists uncover a second 10th-century stone building at Otto the Great’s lost royal palace in Helfta
Archaeologists in Saxony-Anhalt found a second stone building next to the palace of a lost royal residence. The site is the Ottonian palatinate of Helfta..
archaeologymag.com/2026/10/seco...
Archaeologists in Saxony-Anhalt found a second stone building next to the palace of a lost royal residence. The site is the Ottonian palatinate of Helfta..
archaeologymag.com/2026/10/seco...
Archaeologists uncover a second 10th-century stone building at Otto the Great's lost royal palace in Helfta | Archaeology News Online Magazine
New digs at Helfta in Germany reveal a stone building, a terrace and daily life at Otto the Great's lost palace, plus a later medieval castle
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October 15, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Archaeologists uncover a second 10th-century stone building at Otto the Great’s lost royal palace in Helfta
Archaeologists in Saxony-Anhalt found a second stone building next to the palace of a lost royal residence. The site is the Ottonian palatinate of Helfta..
archaeologymag.com/2026/10/seco...
Archaeologists in Saxony-Anhalt found a second stone building next to the palace of a lost royal residence. The site is the Ottonian palatinate of Helfta..
archaeologymag.com/2026/10/seco...
This one kinda flew under the radar, but Laura Wangerin's Kingship and Justice in the Ottonian Empire is a more recent take on that whole debate.
October 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
This one kinda flew under the radar, but Laura Wangerin's Kingship and Justice in the Ottonian Empire is a more recent take on that whole debate.
2026年10月13日
#考古学のおやつ 1/1
ドイツ、ザクセン＝アンハルト州（Land Sachsen-Anhalt）ルターシュタット・アイスレーベン（Lutherstadt Eisleben）で、ヘルフタ（Helfta）にあるヘルフタ王宮（Königspfalz Helfta）で、新たに10世紀の建物跡。オットー大帝の宮殿跡。
[Heritage Daily]
www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/arch...
#考古学のおやつ 1/1
ドイツ、ザクセン＝アンハルト州（Land Sachsen-Anhalt）ルターシュタット・アイスレーベン（Lutherstadt Eisleben）で、ヘルフタ（Helfta）にあるヘルフタ王宮（Königspfalz Helfta）で、新たに10世紀の建物跡。オットー大帝の宮殿跡。
[Heritage Daily]
www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/arch...
Archaeologists uncover new buildings at lost royal palace of Otto the Great
Archaeologists have discovered a previously unknown 10th-century stone building during excavations at the lost Ottonian royal palace of Helfta near Lutherstadt Eisleben in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. - He...
www.heritagedaily.com
October 13, 2026 at 10:37 AM
2026年10月13日
#考古学のおやつ 1/1
ドイツ、ザクセン＝アンハルト州（Land Sachsen-Anhalt）ルターシュタット・アイスレーベン（Lutherstadt Eisleben）で、ヘルフタ（Helfta）にあるヘルフタ王宮（Königspfalz Helfta）で、新たに10世紀の建物跡。オットー大帝の宮殿跡。
[Heritage Daily]
www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/arch...
#考古学のおやつ 1/1
ドイツ、ザクセン＝アンハルト州（Land Sachsen-Anhalt）ルターシュタット・アイスレーベン（Lutherstadt Eisleben）で、ヘルフタ（Helfta）にあるヘルフタ王宮（Königspfalz Helfta）で、新たに10世紀の建物跡。オットー大帝の宮殿跡。
[Heritage Daily]
www.heritagedaily.com/2026/10/arch...
Ottonian art truly solidified its powerful, hieratic aesthetic during the 10th and 11th centuries. Moving away from softer Carolingian styles, these works redefined medieval power and visual authority. #ArtHistory
September 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Ottonian art truly solidified its powerful, hieratic aesthetic during the 10th and 11th centuries. Moving away from softer Carolingian styles, these works redefined medieval power and visual authority. #ArtHistory
Was the Comital Office in the Carolingian and Ottonian Empires Hereditary? www.medievalists.net/2026/09/was-... #history
Was the Comital Office in the Carolingian and Ottonian Empires Hereditary? - Medievalists.net
Historians have long argued that the comital office became hereditary under the Carolingians and Ottonians. David Bachrach examines the medieval evidence and challenges that assumption.
www.medievalists.net
September 19, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Was the Comital Office in the Carolingian and Ottonian Empires Hereditary? www.medievalists.net/2026/09/was-... #history
Carolingian and Ottonian rulers retained more control over comital offices than previously assumed, despite claims of increasing hereditary succession.
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September 19, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Carolingian and Ottonian rulers retained more control over comital offices than previously assumed, despite claims of increasing hereditary succession.
Está esta joya del Patrimonio Cultural en Sajonia-Anhalt, por cierto. Y viendo los resultados electorales allí, no apetece ir, aunque lo tengo pendiente.
Collegiate Church, Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg
Quedlinburg, in the Land of Sachsen-Anhalt, was a capital of the East Franconian German Empire at the time of the Saxonian-Ottonian ruling dynasty. It has been a prosperous trading town since the Midd...
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September 6, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Está esta joya del Patrimonio Cultural en Sajonia-Anhalt, por cierto. Y viendo los resultados electorales allí, no apetece ir, aunque lo tengo pendiente.
We're now closer to the times of Technical Readout: 3025 than we are to the times of Holy Roman Emperor Henry II, last of the Ottonian dynasty.
I'm not quite sure how to feel about that.
I'm not quite sure how to feel about that.
January 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
We're now closer to the times of Technical Readout: 3025 than we are to the times of Holy Roman Emperor Henry II, last of the Ottonian dynasty.
I'm not quite sure how to feel about that.
I'm not quite sure how to feel about that.
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
THE THREE AND THE COLUMN examines the bronze door of Hildesheim Cathedral, which is not only a masterpiece of Ottonian art but is among the most recognizable and studied works of medieval sculpture.
Paperback available now: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Paperback available now: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
The Tree and the Column by Isabelle Marchesin | Paperback | Cornell University Press
The Tree and the Column examines the bronze door of Hildesheim Cathedral, which is not only a masterpiece of Ottonian art but is among the most recognizable and studied works of medieval sculpture....
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March 6, 2024 at 8:05 PM
THE THREE AND THE COLUMN examines the bronze door of Hildesheim Cathedral, which is not only a masterpiece of Ottonian art but is among the most recognizable and studied works of medieval sculpture.
Paperback available now: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Paperback available now: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Here comes another open access article, "Ottonian Notions of imperium and the Byzantine Empire", published in "Frühmittelalterliche Studien" 59.1 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Ottonian Notions of imperium and the Byzantine Empire
This study re-examines the Ottonian Empire’s self-conception and its relationship with its eastern counterpart in the context of the empire’s re-establishment in the West. Building on earlier Roman, B...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Here comes another open access article, "Ottonian Notions of imperium and the Byzantine Empire", published in "Frühmittelalterliche Studien" 59.1 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Just submitted my revised paper on "Ottonian notions of imperium and the Byzantine empire" which has been accepted for publication in "Frühmittelalterliche Studien" 🤓
March 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Just submitted my revised paper on "Ottonian notions of imperium and the Byzantine empire" which has been accepted for publication in "Frühmittelalterliche Studien" 🤓
Very happy to read that the application for funding for my PhD-student has been accepted, and that she will soon be working on "Theophanu and her Influence as a Byzantine on the Ottonian Court"
May 21, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Very happy to read that the application for funding for my PhD-student has been accepted, and that she will soon be working on "Theophanu and her Influence as a Byzantine on the Ottonian Court"
“Roman culture in the Ottonian world”, in Royal Studies Journal 10.2 (2023), 81–119 (open access). rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/368
February 21, 2024 at 2:00 PM
“Roman culture in the Ottonian world”, in Royal Studies Journal 10.2 (2023), 81–119 (open access). rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/368
(2) “Roman culture in the Ottonian world”, in Royal Studies Journal 10.2 (2023), 81–119. rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/368 Hope you enjoy!
January 8, 2024 at 7:46 AM
(2) “Roman culture in the Ottonian world”, in Royal Studies Journal 10.2 (2023), 81–119. rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/368 Hope you enjoy!
Every thing we think is special about the Renaissance has its roots in the medieval. Also, there were TONS of Renaissances: Northumbrian, Carolingian, Ottonian, 12th-Century...maybe nothing needed to be reborn?
July 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Every thing we think is special about the Renaissance has its roots in the medieval. Also, there were TONS of Renaissances: Northumbrian, Carolingian, Ottonian, 12th-Century...maybe nothing needed to be reborn?
Which encapsulates the problem nicely. Northumbrian. Carolingian. Ottonian. 12th-Century. Italian. Northern. Maybe nothing was being reborn after all.
Now. Let's talk about the "Scientific Revolution."
Now. Let's talk about the "Scientific Revolution."
January 10, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Which encapsulates the problem nicely. Northumbrian. Carolingian. Ottonian. 12th-Century. Italian. Northern. Maybe nothing was being reborn after all.
Now. Let's talk about the "Scientific Revolution."
Now. Let's talk about the "Scientific Revolution."
Sorry I didn't phrase that very clearly - the hoard is from Fano of coins minted in Pavia - www.academia.edu/156523472/Te...
TesorettoOttonianodaFano
The hoard consists of nearly 1,500 Ottonian denari of Pavia, contained within a small terracotta jar. This contribution consists of the presentation and first official news of the exceptional find, wh...
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July 17, 2026 at 5:52 AM
Sorry I didn't phrase that very clearly - the hoard is from Fano of coins minted in Pavia - www.academia.edu/156523472/Te...
Ottonian Gospel Book / Reichenau, about 1000.
Ottonisches Evangeliar / Reichenau, um 1000.
#bnw #blackandwhite #photography #antique
#germany #ottonian #books #monastery #sw
Ottonisches Evangeliar / Reichenau, um 1000.
#bnw #blackandwhite #photography #antique
#germany #ottonian #books #monastery #sw
January 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Ottonian Gospel Book / Reichenau, about 1000.
Ottonisches Evangeliar / Reichenau, um 1000.
#bnw #blackandwhite #photography #antique
#germany #ottonian #books #monastery #sw
Ottonisches Evangeliar / Reichenau, um 1000.
#bnw #blackandwhite #photography #antique
#germany #ottonian #books #monastery #sw