Tag: Middle Ages

  • Toppling Tyrants: Early Medieval Approaches to Regime Change

    Toppling Tyrants: Early Medieval Approaches to Regime Change

    By Harry Mawdsley “[He] had very little sense. He conducted all his affairs without paying the slightest heed, till at length, employing a heavy hand against [his subjects], he was the cause of violent hatred and outrage among them” Such was the damning description of Childeric II’s reign in Francia by one early medieval chronicler.…