{"title":"Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages. By Lawrence Nees. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge and New York. 2023. xxix + 558 pp.; 179 colour figures + 1 map. $150. ISBN 978 1 009 19386 3.","authors":"Beatrice Kitzinger","doi":"10.1111/emed.12746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12746","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 2","pages":"278-280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852779","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":"Image and Ornament in the Early Medieval West: New Perspectives on Post-Roman Art. By Matthias Friedrich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. 300 pp. £85. ISBN 9781009207775.","authors":"Mateusz Fafinski","doi":"10.1111/emed.12747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12747","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 2","pages":"274-277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852836","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":"Making Money in the Early Middle Ages. By Rory Naismith. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2023. xxi + 517 pp. + 41 b/w illustrations + 11 maps. $45, £38. ISBN 9780691177403.","authors":"James Norrie","doi":"10.1111/emed.12745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12745","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 1","pages":"133-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115265","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":"Byzantium in the Time of Troubles: The Continuation of the Chronicle of John Skylitzes (1057-1079). Introduction, translation and notes by Eric McGeer, Prosopographical Index and Glossary of Terms by John W. Nesbitt. Leiden: Brill. 2020. xvi + 216 pp. €102. ISBN 978 90 04 41894 3.","authors":"Mirela Ivanova","doi":"10.1111/emed.12742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12742","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 1","pages":"127-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110558","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":"Text and Textuality in Early Medieval Iberia: The Written and the World, 711–1031. By Graham Barrett. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. xviii + 530 pp. $130. ISBN 9780192895370.","authors":"Adam J. Kosto","doi":"10.1111/emed.12741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 1","pages":"124-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114893","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":"Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400–550. By Lucy Grig. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024. xvi + 260 pp. £85. ISBN 9781108491440.","authors":"Robin Whelan","doi":"10.1111/emed.12740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 1","pages":"121-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143114892","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":"Life in Early Medieval Wales. By Nancy Edwards. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. xv + 511 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 873321 8.","authors":"Howard Williams","doi":"10.1111/emed.12744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12744","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 1","pages":"130-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115266","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":"Better dead than shorn. The killing of Chlodomer’s sons and the character of Queen Clotilde","authors":"Willum Westenholz","doi":"10.1111/emed.12737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12737","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article studies the portrayal of the character of Clotilde in Gregory of Tours’s <i>Decem libri historiarum</i> with particular attention paid to the killing of Chlodomer’s sons (3.18). It argues that this, along with other episodes attested in Fredegar, is a contaminations from a tradition in which Clotilde was portrayed as a <i>virago</i> in contrast to the quasi-hagiographical Tours tradition on which Gregory in the main depended. This creates an internal tension in her character that later authors, both scholarly and belletristic, have either attempted to minimize or to bring into the foreground in their own narratives.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"447-473"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142674341","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":"A polyptych in the margins: accounting notes from early tenth-century Laon","authors":"Ildar Garipzanov","doi":"10.1111/emed.12727","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12727","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper provides the first edition and thorough examination of marginal notes added to a ninth-century Carolingian manuscript (Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 424). A detailed paleographic, codicological, linguistic, and historical analysis of these additions allows us not only to trace their provenance to the early tenth-century see of Laon but also to show that their anonymous author was a high-status cleric on the episcopal staff. The range of his practical marginalia – which included polyptych notes, lists of payments, and a list of names – points at various accounting practices he was involved in and indicates that he played an important role in facilitating the social power of ecclesiastical lordship over its localities.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"518-542"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12727","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142182737","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":"I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall","authors":"Michael Eber","doi":"10.1111/emed.12736","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12736","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses a ninth-century copy of the <i>Liber monstrorum</i> from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the <i>Liber monstrorum</i> into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s <i>Etymologiae</i>, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’. Combined with an ambiguously gendered depiction of Christ added to the <i>Liber monstrorum</i> by a later user, this suggests that there were some in early medieval St Gall who saw being ‘of both sexes’ – which could be interpreted to reflect same-sex attraction, and/or non-binary, intersex, and trans identities – as natural, even potentially Christ-like.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"543-564"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12736","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142182747","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}