{"title":"Archbishop Wulfstan’s criticism of King Edgar in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle","authors":"Nicholas Peter Schwartz","doi":"10.1111/emed.12685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12685","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Archbishop Wulfstan of York’s interpolation in the DE version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for the year 959 is out of character for both the churchman himself and for the pre-Conquest period as a whole, as it is the only text from early England critical of King Edgar. This article shows that Wulfstan’s complaints about Edgar, which focus on the king’s policies related to Scandinavians in England, are rooted in the monarch’s probable official employment of Scandinavians and in the law code IV Edgar. Ultimately, this article argues that Wulfstan’s criticisms of Edgar are best understood in relation to the archbishop’s notion that royal policy could have significant long-term negative consequences, especially if such policy contravened Wulfstan’s understanding of the will of God.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"31 4","pages":"650-668"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147482","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 Foundations of Royal Power in Early Medieval Germany. By David S. Bachrach. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press. 2022. xviii + 384 pp. £75. ISBN 9781800106338.","authors":"Simon Groth","doi":"10.1111/emed.12679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12679","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"31 4","pages":"669-672"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50141144","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":"Changing queenships in tenth-century England: rhetoric and (self-)representation in the case of Eadgifu of Kent at Cooling","authors":"Jonathan Tickle","doi":"10.1111/emed.12676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12676","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The charter now known as Sawyer 1211 contains a detailed account of an intergenerational property dispute between Queen Eadgifu and her rival Goda, concerning the possession of two Kentish estates. Typically, the charter has either been understood as evidence of dispute settlement or to establish facts about Eadgifu that are otherwise unattested. This article argues that Sawyer 1211 has further value when approached as a narrative which drew upon Eadgifu’s memories and oral testimony. Read in this way, it reveals a (self-)representation of her legal agency that has important implications for the understanding of early English queenship.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"31 4","pages":"598-628"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12676","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50153164","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":"Early Medieval Militarisation. Edited by Ellora Bennett, Guido M. Berndt, Stefan Esders and Laury Sarti. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2021. xv + 367 pp. £90. ISBN 9781526138620.","authors":"Eric J. Goldberg","doi":"10.1111/emed.12682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12682","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"31 4","pages":"673-675"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50116898","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":"Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, ad 750–900. By Paolo Squatriti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. xi + 224 pp. + 1 b/w and 11 colour figures. £75. ISBN 978 1 316 51286 9.","authors":"Wendy Davies","doi":"10.1111/emed.12680","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12680","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"31 4","pages":"688-690"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46013588","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":"Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400–1000 ce. By Bronwen Neil. Oxford Studies in Abrahamic Religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. 256 pp. £72. ISBN 9780198871149.","authors":"Jesse Keskiaho","doi":"10.1111/emed.12681","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12681","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"31 4","pages":"685-687"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48220560","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":"Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe. By Meg Leja. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2022. viii + 378 pp. $89.95. ISBN 9780812253894.","authors":"Peregrine Horden","doi":"10.1111/emed.12677","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12677","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"31 4","pages":"678-681"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44622692","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":"Spiritual Direction as a Medical Art in Early Christian Monasticism. By Jonathan Zecher. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. 400 pp. £75. ISBN 9 78 019885413 5.","authors":"Claire Burridge","doi":"10.1111/emed.12678","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12678","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"31 4","pages":"690-692"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50147737","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":"Teaching monastic masculinity with the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham","authors":"Maroula Perisanidi","doi":"10.1111/emed.12671","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12671","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I focus on the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham to show how it contributed to gender formation by teaching boys not only Latin, but also what it meant to be a man of the monastery. I discuss how the professions the boys role-played encouraged them to think of the monk as the most masculine option, and how verbal experimentation allowed their violent impulses to be redirected from physical towards intellectual outlets. In doing so, I reveal the rhetorical strategies used to construct collective gendered identities, which separated different types of men and the role of animals in this process.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"31 4","pages":"629-649"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12671","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47191286","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":"Bede, Æthelberht, and the ‘examples of the Romans’ in early medieval England","authors":"Andrew Rabin","doi":"10.1111/emed.12672","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12672","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Book II, Chapter 5 of the <i>Historia ecclesiastica</i>, Bede writes that the Kentish king Æthelberht had, ‘with the advice of his counsellors, established legal enactments according to the examples of the Romans.’ This article argues that Bede’s formulation serves as a means of characterizing the increasingly interventionist role played by early Kentish kings in making the laws issued in their names.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"31 4","pages":"563-584"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47661337","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}