Maintaining the Realm dismantles tropes and dispels misconceptions of the medieval Holy Roman Empire through the analysis and exploration of architecture and historical charters.
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Who Owned Property in the Middle Ages?
In a previous article, we explored the difference between peasants and serfs with regard to both the etymology of each term and the respective rights/privileges of each group over time. In the medieval Holy Roman Empire (HRE), most peasants...
Neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire?
This post will address the prevailing trope about the Holy Roman Empire (HRE) having been more or less a joke of a state. Without repeating too much of the five-part series that I wrote on the origins of the Holy Roman Empire (Part One, Par...
How to Find Medieval Charters Online
When historians conduct research about the Middle Ages, the key source of information is derived from historical charters. The image that comes to mind is a text written upon parchment with either black or brown ink, with a number of wax se...
Peasants and Serfs. What’s the Difference?
What does peasant mean?
To begin, the English word peasant is derived from the medieval French word, païsant, meaning “country dweller”. In turn, this word developed from the Latin pagensis, meaning someone who lives in a pagus—Latin...
Relaunch!
It has been nearly seven months since my last article, and I owe everyone an explanation as to why.
This fall I began a full-time lectureship at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and the past months have been spent by focusing on that. M...
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PhD in European Art History. I write about art, medieval architecture, and legal history in the Holy Roman Empire
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