Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund

IF 0.7 1区历史学 0 MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES

Early Medieval Europe Pub Date : 2025-06-09 DOI:10.1111/emed.12776

Robert Flierman, Hope Williard

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Abstract

This article studies the ways the sixth-century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non-textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public communication remain under-explored. Drawing on two Merovingian hagiographies, one written c.590–600 by Radegund’s friend and agent Venantius Fortunatus, and another composed shortly after 600 by a fellow nun, Baudonivia, this article offers a new methodological approach to the study of letter-writing in the early Middle Ages.

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信件、礼物和信使。圣拉德冈的书信策略

本文研究了六世纪的女王和修道院创始人拉德冈（c.520-87）通过信件处理非文本元素的方式。虽然雷德冈作为作家和信件专员的角色已经得到了很好的研究，但她作为信件递送、礼物交换和其他相关公共沟通行为的协调者的努力仍未得到充分研究。这篇文章引用了两部墨罗温王朝的圣徒传记，一部是由拉德冈的朋友和代理人维纳提乌斯·福尔图纳图斯在590 - 600年间写的，另一部是在600年后不久由一位修女鲍多尼维亚写的，为研究中世纪早期的书信写作提供了一种新的方法方法。

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Early Medieval Europe MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： Early Medieval Europe provides an indispensable source of information and debate on the history of Europe from the later Roman Empire to the eleventh century. The journal is a thoroughly interdisciplinary forum, encouraging the discussion of archaeology, numismatics, palaeography, diplomatic, literature, onomastics, art history, linguistics and epigraphy, as well as more traditional historical approaches. It covers Europe in its entirety, including material on Iceland, Ireland, the British Isles, Scandinavia and Continental Europe (both west and east).