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Jestice, Imperial Ladies of the Ottonian Dynasty: Women and Rule in Tenth-Century Germany (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) by McNair, Fraser

“…Review of Phyllis G. Jestice, Imperial Ladies of the Ottonian Dynasty: Women and Rule in Tenth-Century Germany (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)…”
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After Soissons: The Last Years of Charles the Simple (923-929) by McNair, Fraser

“…In August 923, Charles the Simple was imprisoned by Count Heribert II of Vermandois, spending the rest of his life in prison. The six years between his…”
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An Unbeloved Heir? A Reassessment of Louis the Stammerer's Role in the Last Years of Charles the Bald's Reign and its Implications for Understanding Carolingian Rule by McNair, Fraser

“…The father–son relationship between Charles the Bald and his eldest son Louis the Stammerer is generally understood as one of hostility and distrust. This…”
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Governance, locality and legal culture: the rise and fall of the Carolingian advocates of Saint‐Martin of Tours by McNair, Fraser

“…This article examines the office of advocate at the abbey of Saint‐Martin of Tours. It studies what was regionally distinctive about its emergence there in the…”
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Political culture and ducal authority in Aquitaine, c. 900–1040 by McNair, Fraser

“…The development of ducal authority in tenth‐century Aquitaine was a major change in the region's political culture. The emergence of a regional, aristocratic…”
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Overlapping authorities, vikings in Frisia and the church of Utrecht by McNair, Fraser

“…Abstract In 858 King Lothar II granted Bishop Hunger of Utrecht the abbey of Sint Odiliënberg to serve as a refuge against viking attacks. This article…”
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The politics of being Norman in the reign of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy (r. 942-996) by McNair, Fraser

“…In 966, by the end of the reign of its third duke, Richard I, Normandy had overcome the crises that had beset it in the middle of the century. Much of this…”
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A saint, an abbot, his documents and her property: power, reform and landholding in the monastery of Homblières under Abbot Berner (949-82) by McNair, Fraser

“…The monastery of Homblières, after 949, when it was turned from a community of nuns into a reformed Benedictine monastery under the rule of Abbot Berner, left…”
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The politics of being N orman in the reign of R ichard the F earless, D uke of N ormandy (r. 942–996) by McNair, Fraser

“…In 966, by the end of the reign of its third duke, R ichard I , N ormandy had overcome the crises that had beset it in the middle of the century. Much of this…”
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