Simon MacLean
Biographic Data
| ID | 5746688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon MacLean |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | MacLean |
| SIGNATURE | MACLEAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Der Umwelt begegnen
Journal Article Der Umwelt begegnen: Extremereignisse und die Verflechtung von Natur und Kultur im Frankenreich vom 8. bis 10. Jahrhundert, by Stephan F. Ebert Get access Der Umwelt begegnen: Extremereignisse und die Verflechtung von Natur und Kultur im Frankenreich vom 8. bis 10. Jahrhundert, by Stephan F. Ebert (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021; pp. 344. €68). Simon Maclean Simon Maclean University of St Andrews, UK [email protected] Searc…
Kingship and Justice in the Ottonian Empire
The Ottonian family (919–1024) is remembered by posterity—not unproblematically—as the first great royal dynasty of ‘German’ medieval history. It has not always, however, been a topic of particular interest to those working in Anglo-American academia. Karl Leyser’s 1979 book Rule and Conflict in an Early Medieval Society is usually reckoned to have been the real starting point of modern Anglophone interest in the subject, which has intensified in…
Ottonian Queenship
This is the first major study in English of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty (919-1024). The Ottonians were a family from Saxony who are often regarded as the founders of the medieval German kingdom. They were the most successful of all the dynasties to emerge from the wreckage of the pan-European Carolingian Empire after it disintegrated in 888, ruling as kings and emperors in Germany and Italy and exerting indirect hegemony in France and in E…
Writing Ottonian Queenship I
This chapter turns to Adelheid, the second wife of Otto I, remembered as one of the most powerful queens of the Middle Ages. I begin with a discussion of the sources for Adelheid’s career, which is very well documented compared to the queens covered in previous chapters. I argue that this proliferation of evidence after 961 is not a coincidence, and that it relates to a deliberate attempt by the Ottonians to emphasize Adelheid’s status as a means…
Queens and Dynasties in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
This chapter provides an introduction to the problems of interpreting early medieval queenship, and explains the core arguments of the book. Existing historiography is summarized and the main sources are described. The chapter offers a survey of the key elements of Carolingian queenship in the mid and late ninth century, and explains how Ottonian queenship differed. The argument is that whereas Carolingian queenship was defined around fairly stab…
Divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga
The Carolingian Past in Post-Carolingian Europe
Popular protest in late-medieval Europe
This book is comprised of over 200 translated sources related to popular protest in Italy, France and Flanders from 1245 to 1424 . In particular, it focuses on the 'contagion of rebellion' from 1355 to 1382 that followed in the wake of the plague. They comprise a diversity of sources and cover a variety of forms of popular protest in different social, political and economic settings. Their authors range across a wide political and intellectual ho…
Ottonian Germany
The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the Ottonian Empire. Although there is sufficient evidence of continuity between the Ottonians and the early Salians to justify a long Ottonian period extending at least to 1056, it is the Ottonians alone who defined the mental landscape of Bishop Thietmar of …
Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire, by Rachel Stone
Journal Article Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire, by Rachel Stone Get access Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire, by Rachel Stone (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2012; pp. xvii + 399. £60). Simon Maclean Simon Maclean University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 533, August 2013, Pages 919–921, https://doi.org/10.1093…
Recycling the Franks in Twelfth-Century England
In the Middle Ages, even more so than today, history writing could be an act of political engagement. In an era without formal representation, the ability to persuade audiences of particular views of the past could be a significant weapon for those seeking to gain rhetorical leverage in political disputes. Yet “useful” history could be compiled from existing works as well as written from scratch. Because of the technologies of transmission in the…
The Carolingian World
At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe - from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. As the largest political unit for centuries, the empire dominated the region and left an enduring legacy for European culture. This comprehensive survey traces this great empire's history, from its origins a…
Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century
Reform, Queenship and the End of the World in Tenth-Century France
MacLean Simon. Reform, Queenship and the End of the World in Tenth-Century France: Adso’s “Letter on the Origin and Time of the Antichrist” Reconsidered. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 86, fasc. 3-4, 2008. pp. 645-675
Reform, Queenship and the End of the World in Tenth-Century France
Peer reviewed
Struggle for Empire
Recycling the Franks in Twelfth-Century England
In the Middle Ages, even more so than today, history writing could be an act of political engagement. In an era without formal representation, the ability to persuade audiences of particular views of the past could be a significant weapon for those seeking to gain rhetorical leverage in political disputes. Yet “useful” history could be compiled from existing works as well as written from scratch. Because of the technologies of transmission in the…
Struggle for Empire
Reform, Queenship and the End of the World in Tenth-Century France
MacLean Simon. Reform, Queenship and the End of the World in Tenth-Century France: Adso’s “Letter on the Origin and Time of the Antichrist” Reconsidered. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 86, fasc. 3-4, 2008. pp. 645-675
Reform, Queenship and the End of the World in Tenth-Century France
Peer reviewed
Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century
The Carolingian World
At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe - from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. As the largest political unit for centuries, the empire dominated the region and left an enduring legacy for European culture. This comprehensive survey traces this great empire's history, from its origins a…
Recycling the Franks in Twelfth-Century England
In the Middle Ages, even more so than today, history writing could be an act of political engagement. In an era without formal representation, the ability to persuade audiences of particular views of the past could be a significant weapon for those seeking to gain rhetorical leverage in political disputes. Yet “useful” history could be compiled from existing works as well as written from scratch. Because of the technologies of transmission in the…
Popular protest in late-medieval Europe
This book is comprised of over 200 translated sources related to popular protest in Italy, France and Flanders from 1245 to 1424 . In particular, it focuses on the 'contagion of rebellion' from 1355 to 1382 that followed in the wake of the plague. They comprise a diversity of sources and cover a variety of forms of popular protest in different social, political and economic settings. Their authors range across a wide political and intellectual ho…
Ottonian Germany
The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg has long been recognised as one of the most important sources for the history of the tenth and early eleventh centuries, especially for the history of the Ottonian Empire. Although there is sufficient evidence of continuity between the Ottonians and the early Salians to justify a long Ottonian period extending at least to 1056, it is the Ottonians alone who defined the mental landscape of Bishop Thietmar of …
Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire, by Rachel Stone
Journal Article Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire, by Rachel Stone Get access Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire, by Rachel Stone (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2012; pp. xvii + 399. £60). Simon Maclean Simon Maclean University of St Andrews Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 533, August 2013, Pages 919–921, https://doi.org/10.1093…
The Carolingian Past in Post-Carolingian Europe
Ottonian Queenship
This is the first major study in English of the queens of the Ottonian dynasty (919-1024). The Ottonians were a family from Saxony who are often regarded as the founders of the medieval German kingdom. They were the most successful of all the dynasties to emerge from the wreckage of the pan-European Carolingian Empire after it disintegrated in 888, ruling as kings and emperors in Germany and Italy and exerting indirect hegemony in France and in E…
Writing Ottonian Queenship I
This chapter turns to Adelheid, the second wife of Otto I, remembered as one of the most powerful queens of the Middle Ages. I begin with a discussion of the sources for Adelheid’s career, which is very well documented compared to the queens covered in previous chapters. I argue that this proliferation of evidence after 961 is not a coincidence, and that it relates to a deliberate attempt by the Ottonians to emphasize Adelheid’s status as a means…
Queens and Dynasties in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
This chapter provides an introduction to the problems of interpreting early medieval queenship, and explains the core arguments of the book. Existing historiography is summarized and the main sources are described. The chapter offers a survey of the key elements of Carolingian queenship in the mid and late ninth century, and explains how Ottonian queenship differed. The argument is that whereas Carolingian queenship was defined around fairly stab…
Divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga
Kingship and Justice in the Ottonian Empire
The Ottonian family (919–1024) is remembered by posterity—not unproblematically—as the first great royal dynasty of ‘German’ medieval history. It has not always, however, been a topic of particular interest to those working in Anglo-American academia. Karl Leyser’s 1979 book Rule and Conflict in an Early Medieval Society is usually reckoned to have been the real starting point of modern Anglophone interest in the subject, which has intensified in…
Der Umwelt begegnen
Journal Article Der Umwelt begegnen: Extremereignisse und die Verflechtung von Natur und Kultur im Frankenreich vom 8. bis 10. Jahrhundert, by Stephan F. Ebert Get access Der Umwelt begegnen: Extremereignisse und die Verflechtung von Natur und Kultur im Frankenreich vom 8. bis 10. Jahrhundert, by Stephan F. Ebert (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021; pp. 344. €68). Simon Maclean Simon Maclean University of St Andrews, UK [email protected] Searc…
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