Oathbreakers in the UK
It's like the reverse Beatles, except totally different
Modern Medieval
by David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele
It’s no secret to our students, or to any of the many who’ve attended our events for The Bright Ages or our new book Oathbreakers, that we love an audience. We’ve been delighted to meet you all at bookstores and via webinars and online reading groups - to take questions and chat with you about your own interests. After all, we started writing for wider audiences because we wanted people to see the medieval world as knowable, and to do at least a little bit to help people see that.
So, we’re excited to announce that we’re taking our show back on the road this Fall - for the first time EVER, to England and the Wantage Literary Festival.
JOIN US!
Monday 27 October
4pm
The Beacon, The Lockinge Room
Wantage, England
The event description:
The authors of ‘The Bright Ages’ return with a real-life Game of Thrones – the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and redefine the future of Europe.
By the early ninth century, the Carolingian empire was at the height of its power. The Franks, led by Charlemagne, had built the largest European domain since the heyday of Rome. But just two generations later, their world was in shambles. Civil war, once an unthinkable threat, had erupted after Louis the Pious’s sons tried to overthrow him – and then placed their knives at each other’s neck. The Carolingian Civil War would rage for years as kings fought kings, brother faced off against brother, and sons challenged fathers. Oathbreakers is the dramatic history of this brutal, turbulent time. Medieval historians Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry illuminate what happens when a once unshakeable political and cultural order breaks down and long suppressed tensions flare into deadly violence.
Matthew Gabriele and David M Perry will talk about this turbulent time, what deep cracks in a once-stable social and political fabric might reveal, the bloody consequences of disagreeing on facts and reality, and what happens when things fall apart.
And as an added bonus, I will GUARANTEE that we will be at the pub immediately afterwards and will be happy to share a drink with you!
Please share widely and hope to see you there…
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