Archives and medieval developments

Hi Kelsey,

I've actually been having a hard time addressing how the changes in territorial spaces impacted archives. Given my regional layout, it's kind of hard to explain "and the borders changed after Charlemagne died and the Carolingian empire was fractured into three empires". Should I make the Carolingian empire a separate region?

In terms of warfare, I have not seen a lot on its effects. Though one could conclude that the reason Henry II had chests of records rather than a permanent repository was because he was travelling to different conflict areas. But there is so far little on how warfare affected repositories. I will look into that further.

There are some religious changes I can explain further such as the Cluniac/Benedictine Reform. However, the establishment of the Church of England is an early modern development, so I left that for Morgan.

And yes, I was getting around to those kind of edits. So far I've just been throwing information up there in a somewhat coherent manner.

Thanks for the questions and compliments!

MargaretHunter (talk)16:24, 31 March 2015