Lothair II of Lotharingia

With the patriarchy existing for thousands of years, one can only assume that it has been rocked more than a few times. But could it be in the ninth-century regarding marriage? Rachel Stone argues in her article that no, it can not be. That even when the patriarchy seemed to be shaken up, the power still remained with the men. This paper will provide a brief summarization and a review of the article, Bound from Either Side’: The Limits of Power in Carolingian Marriage Disputes, To 840–870, authored

The Lothair crystal, which originated in Lotharingia (North-West Europe) depicts the biblical story of Susana with the Elders (855-869). This crystal was made for the king of the Franks, Lothair II. The chronological images on the crystal relates to the story of Susana who was falsely accused of committing adultery and was thus condemned by the elders. In the final scene of the story, Susana is declared to be innocent when prophet Daniel comes to her aid and testifies her chastity. This crystal which

The Carolingians extended their rule over most Western and central Europe in much less than one 1/2 of a century and became seemed as the renewers of the Roman Empire after the Imperial coronation of Charlemagne in 800. The Carolingian Empire carried out its best territorial extent throughout the reign of Charlemagne (768-814) who added Lombardy, Saxony, Danubian simple and Spanish March to the realm of the Franks. but, Charlemagne’s empire began to say no already below his successor Louis the Pious

His empire had two main territories, East and west Francia that is now the major parts of two important European entities. West Francia is modern-day France, and East Francia became first the Holy Roman Empire and then the modern state of Germany. II     BACKGROUND AND EARLY LIFE      Charlemagne was born on about 742. He was the oldest son of the Frankish leader Pepin the Short. Pepin was the mayor of the palace under the

brought about the weakening of the Imperial authority and territorial fragmentation became apparent already throughout the rule of thumb of Louis the Pious. He had to deal with several rebellions of his 3 sons Pepin of Aquitaine, Louis the German and Lothair I