{"title":"Mapping women’s relational networks in Carolingian Septimania, 795–850","authors":"Courtney Luckhardt","doi":"10.1111/emed.12779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12779","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using the Digital Humanities methods of network analysis and visualization to study the social networks of migrants and locals in the charters of Carolingian Septimania, this article argues that within these documents women played a central role in the relational social actions of kinship, patronage, and legal ties. The diffuse, horizontal social networks visually demonstrate how migration to the Marca Hispanica from both Hispania and Francia allowed many people, including women, to take advantage of a socio-economic system in flux.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 3","pages":"412-435"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"St Alban, Germanus of Auxerre, and a cult at Verulamium","authors":"Megan Bunce","doi":"10.1111/emed.12775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12775","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article argues that there is no strong evidence for the continuity of the cult of St Alban at Verulamium from the fifth to the eighth century. The written evidence suggests rather that the martyr narrative and cult of Alban was created in Gaul and reimported to Britain through texts. The activity at late and post-Roman Verulamium is contextualized by comparing it with archaeological evidence from contemporary British sites. The article explores how the contrasts and connections between Britain and the Continent determined the survival of devotion to Alban.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 3","pages":"391-411"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund","authors":"Robert Flierman, Hope Williard","doi":"10.1111/emed.12776","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12776","url":null,"abstract":"<p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 3","pages":"309-340"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12776","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573845","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Franks and Northmen: From Strangers to Neighbors. By Daniel Melleno. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 2024. xiii + 282 pp. + 14 b/w figures. £38.99. ISBN 978 1 032 26699 2.","authors":"Christian Cooijmans","doi":"10.1111/emed.12777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12777","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 3","pages":"461-463"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia. By Sven Kalmring. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024. xviii + 277 pp. £22.99. ISBN 9781009298094.","authors":"Sarah Croix","doi":"10.1111/emed.12774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12774","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 3","pages":"458-460"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian. By David Alan Parnell. New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. 260 pp. £19.99. ISBN 9780197574706.","authors":"David M. Kennedy","doi":"10.1111/emed.12773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12773","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 3","pages":"455-457"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Civilian Legacy of the Roman Army: Military Models in the Post-Roman World. Edited by Luca Loschiavo. History of Warfare 144. Leiden: Brill. 2024, pp. XI +520.","authors":"David S. Bachrach","doi":"10.1111/emed.12772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12772","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 3","pages":"452-454"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces. Edited by Alex Mullen and George Woudhuysen. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. xii + 350 pp. + illustrations, maps. $155 (hardback); open access. ISBN 9780198888956.","authors":"Yuliya Minets","doi":"10.1111/emed.12770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 3","pages":"446-448"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages. By Shane Bobrycki. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2024. xxi + 313 pp. £35/$39.95. ISBN 9780691189697.","authors":"Rory Naismith","doi":"10.1111/emed.12771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12771","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 3","pages":"449-451"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mauri et Saraceni: the ethnonyms used for the Muslims of al-Andalus by Carolingian authors","authors":"Erdinç Ofli","doi":"10.1111/emed.12768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12768","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The terms <i>Saraceni</i>, <i>Ismaelitae</i> and <i>Agareni</i> were used over a wide period of time by Latin sources to describe first the Arabs, and then all Muslim groups. Early Carolingian Frankish texts followed this tradition when writing about al-Andalus, denoting all Islamic forces through these generic terms, without any overt reference to the Berber population, who had played an important role in the Muslim conquest. However, this changed over time, as North African contingents began to find specific mention, and as Carolingian sources started to provide more information about the <i>Mauri</i>. This study examines these sources through a terminological analysis, suggesting that changes in terminology reflected Carolingian authors' increasing knowledge of the Muslims of al-Andalus.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 3","pages":"341-366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144573623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}