tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post112319080935497141..comments2024-02-07T03:12:59.031-05:00Comments on Blogenspiel: Why I love the early stuffAnother Damned Medievalisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1123530185996344112005-08-08T15:43:00.000-04:002005-08-08T15:43:00.000-04:00I'm Late Antiquity through Early Medieval but I su...I'm Late Antiquity through Early Medieval but I suppose my main area is Late Early Medieval (Ælfric and the boys...). I consider the Carolingians Early Medieval because the cultural center had clearly moved from Rome and the Carolingians were the first major non-Roman bureaucratic power in the west. I tend not to blog medieval--at least not yet.Derek the Ænglicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11625110461660458291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1123432661271121492005-08-07T12:37:00.000-04:002005-08-07T12:37:00.000-04:00Am not laughing, I promise. It's cool to see the e...Am not laughing, I promise. It's cool to see the enthusiasm. Have to confess, though, that the early stuff just doesn't speak to me like the later stuff! But that's not a claim of superiority - just a personal preference. I wonder how much it has to do with who I learned history from at various times, and how much it has to do with the fact that my adolescent intro to the period (in a historical romance!) was through the 14th c?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1123351358395504252005-08-06T14:02:00.000-04:002005-08-06T14:02:00.000-04:00Great page!!! Greatings from Germany!!!Great page!!! Greatings from Germany!!!Chriswabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01271323473469913808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1123350687173322392005-08-06T13:51:00.000-04:002005-08-06T13:51:00.000-04:00No, I don't have a blog.No, I don't have a blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1123270701531712642005-08-05T15:38:00.000-04:002005-08-05T15:38:00.000-04:00Oh -- and thanks to everyone for not laughing! I ...Oh -- and thanks to everyone for not laughing! I was posting off the top of my head ;-)Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1123270657939117192005-08-05T15:37:00.000-04:002005-08-05T15:37:00.000-04:00sm -- are you the sm who blogs as a Merovingian ki...sm -- are you the sm who blogs as a Merovingian king and who studied under a different king?Another Damned Medievalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05231085915472400163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1123266009214827732005-08-05T14:20:00.000-04:002005-08-05T14:20:00.000-04:00Greg --Gotta keep up with the times. Women being ...Greg --<BR/><BR/>Gotta keep up with the times. Women being mother - even Brunhild and Fredegund, pretty sensational cases - that's just old hat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1123261173996856112005-08-05T12:59:00.000-04:002005-08-05T12:59:00.000-04:00I'm a Merovingianist, although I don't blog about ...I'm a Merovingianist, although I don't blog about it. The Carolingians, I would argue, are Late Antiquity, for the reasons you mention. Early Medieval probably begins at the Treaty of Verdun, when the Empire was fractured and the two sides couldn't understand each other.<BR/><BR/>I always try to argue that the early European stuff is better than the later. Gregory's history is fantastic, but so are his <I>vitae</I>.<BR/><BR/>And sm - Gregory, Mother of Kings? He was more flexible than I thought. Brunhild - now she would be a great movie subject!Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13481137891542684401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3671815.post-1123209125342823942005-08-04T22:32:00.000-04:002005-08-04T22:32:00.000-04:00And most of the stuff is edited...I used to do 5th...And most of the stuff is edited...<BR/><BR/>I used to do 5th century stuff and was it ever a shock to transfer to the 14th c and find how difficult it was to locate obscure 19th c editions done by local history clubs in Belgium. The few copies are all squirreled away in a handful of libraries in UK, France and the Low Countries.<BR/><BR/>Of course those later sources are a bit easier to understand.<BR/><BR/>Ancarett, I once sketch a movie treatment for Gregory -- Mother of Kings. "Anyone can be the wife of a Frankish king. True power is being -- the Mother of kings."<BR/><BR/>Salacious, spectacular, accurate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com