Early Medieval EuropePub Date : 2026-10-12Epub Date: 2026-07-17DOI: 10.1111/emed.70048
Lukas J. Dorfbauer
{"title":"A newly discovered Carolingian text: Candidus' Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti, written for Charlemagne","authors":"Lukas J. Dorfbauer","doi":"10.1111/emed.70048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article presents a newly discovered Latin text: a theological treatise titled Liber testimoniorum veteris testamenti <i>that was written by Alcuin’s friend Candidus (Wizo) at the request of Charlemagne. By discussing selected passages from the Heptateuch, Candidus seeks to demonstrate that Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit, thus the whole Christian Trinity, was already announced and even present in the Old Testament. The dedicatory letter suggests that Charlemagne had the conversion of Muslims to the Christian faith in mind when he requested Candidus write this treatise. I succinctly discuss its transmission, its structure and contents, and its authorship</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 4","pages":"576-600"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.70048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177128","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}
Early Medieval EuropePub Date : 2026-10-12Epub Date: 2026-07-28DOI: 10.1111/emed.70051
Cullen J. Chandler
{"title":"Rethinking Reform in the Latin West, 10th to Early 12th Century. Edited by Steven Vanderputten. Leiden: Brill. 2023. XIV + 340 pp. ISBN 978 90 04 54642 4.","authors":"Cullen J. Chandler","doi":"10.1111/emed.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70051","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 4","pages":"709-712"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177510","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}
Early Medieval EuropePub Date : 2026-10-12Epub Date: 2026-08-24DOI: 10.1111/emed.70059
David Kalhous, Ivana Boháčová, Tomáš Petráček
{"title":"Stará Boleslav: a collegiate chapter? Towards the administrative framework of Christianization in the Czech lands (eleventh–twelfth century)","authors":"David Kalhous, Ivana Boháčová, Tomáš Petráček","doi":"10.1111/emed.70059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70059","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article examines the ecclesiastical institution consecrated at Stará Boleslav by Břetislav I in 1046 – specifically whether it was established from the outset as a collegiate chapter, or whether it evolved into one only gradually. Combining archaeological evidence with a critical reading of Cosmas of Prague’s <i>Chronica Boemorum</i>, canon law scholarship, and comparative material from Bohemia and wider Europe, the paper argues that the institution founded in 1046 was most probably not a collegiate chapter in any formal sense, but rather a large minster-type church served by a group of priests whose primary function was pastoral care and the administration of a broader territory. Three distinct phases of development suggest that the collegiate chapter took shape only in the course of the twelfth century. Placed within the broader context of Christianization and pastoral administration in the Přemyslid principality, the case of Stará Boleslav illuminates the flexible, often ambiguous nature of early ecclesiastical institutions in central Europe before the consolidation of parish structures around 1200.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 4","pages":"662-690"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177646","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}
Early Medieval EuropePub Date : 2026-10-12Epub Date: 2026-07-19DOI: 10.1111/emed.70053
Richard Broome
{"title":"From Clovis to Charlemagne: Frankish History and Historians. By Roger Collins. Variorum Collected Studies. London and New York: Routledge. 2025. xiii + 211 pp. £155. ISBN 978 1 032 88052 5.","authors":"Richard Broome","doi":"10.1111/emed.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70053","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 4","pages":"691-693"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177134","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}
Early Medieval EuropePub Date : 2026-10-12Epub Date: 2026-07-16DOI: 10.1111/emed.70049
Viva Sacco
{"title":"Ceramic ecology in an Islamic capital: changes in the production and consumption of pottery in Palermo","authors":"Viva Sacco","doi":"10.1111/emed.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the island. Palermo fostered particular social, economic, and technological environments, so that at least until the eleventh century it was not only the main production centre and key place from which new pottery fashions spread to the rest of the island, but also the main hub from which pottery was exported, both throughout Sicily and to the central Mediterranean. Through analysis of both material culture from excavations and the technologies of production that gave the capital such a distinctive profile, this article demonstrates the centrality of the capital and its exceptional role in shaping what went on people’s tables.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 4","pages":"555-575"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.70049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177677","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}
Early Medieval EuropePub Date : 2026-10-12Epub Date: 2026-07-21DOI: 10.1111/emed.70052
Rachel Stone
{"title":"God and History in the Early Medieval West: The Theology of Carolingian Historians. By Robert A.H. Evans. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2025. xv + 278 pp. £99. ISBN 9780198957249.","authors":"Rachel Stone","doi":"10.1111/emed.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 4","pages":"694-696"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177077","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}
Early Medieval EuropePub Date : 2026-10-12Epub Date: 2026-07-21DOI: 10.1111/emed.70056
Horst Lösslein
{"title":"Du chartrier au codex: La première cartularisation (IXe–début Xe siècle). By Claire de Cazanove Hannecart. Collection Haut Moyen Âge 50. Turnhout: Brepols. 2024. 367 pp. €95. ISBN 978 2 503 61026 9.","authors":"Horst Lösslein","doi":"10.1111/emed.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 4","pages":"700-702"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177079","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}
Early Medieval EuropePub Date : 2026-10-12Epub Date: 2026-07-21DOI: 10.1111/emed.70057
Pauline Stafford
{"title":"Constructing the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. By Daniel Anlezark. Anglo-Saxon Studies 52. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. 2025. x + 297 pp. £95. ISBN 978 1 84384 748 9.","authors":"Pauline Stafford","doi":"10.1111/emed.70057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 4","pages":"703-705"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177221","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}