{"title":"Monasticism in Ireland, ad 900–1250. By Edel Bhreathnach. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2024. xx + 450 pp. €50. ISBN 9781801511179.","authors":"Clare Downham","doi":"10.1111/emed.12760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12760","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 2","pages":"300-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852993","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":"Le mariage des prêtres, une hérésie? Genèse du nicolaïsme (Ier–XIe siècle). By Isabelle Rosé. Paris: Presses universitaires de France. 2023. 409 pp. €28. ISBN 978 2 13 085326 8.","authors":"Fiona J. Griffiths","doi":"10.1111/emed.12756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12756","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 2","pages":"291-293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852808","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":"Ordo renascendi est crescere posse malis (Rutilius Namatianus I.140): the sack of Rome and the resilience of western Roman aristocracies","authors":"Sophie Kultzen","doi":"10.1111/emed.12755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12755","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rutilius Namatianus’ poem <i>De reditu suo</i> was written a few years after the devastation of Rome in 410. It has been read as nostalgia for Rome’s past greatness written in a climate of senatorial escapism. This article revises this reading, instead analysing the poem as the literary expression of resilience on the part of the traditional western aristocracies. The collective strategy of conservative western Roman elites was to face the crisis by rebuilding the <i>beatitudo temporum</i> of urban structures and consolidating the ideology of the <i>Urbs aeterna</i>. By contrast, the increasing importance of ascetic movements can be seen as an alternative coping strategy adopted by the Christian aristocracy, overcoming the trauma of 410 through religious renewal.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 2","pages":"139-157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12755","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852726","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":"Conversing with the enemy: miraculous encounters between Christians and Muslims in the Italo-Greek saints' Lives","authors":"Sarah Davis-Secord","doi":"10.1111/emed.12753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12753","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Italo-Greek saints’ <i>Lives</i> from early medieval southern Italy have been viewed as evidence for violent opposition between Christians and Muslims in the area. I argue instead that these texts demonstrate ambivalence toward the Muslim presence: while painting Muslims as frightening and violent outsiders, they also depict them as capable of engaging in extended and mutually beneficial conversations with Christians. Analysis of selected such episodes complicates our perspective on cross-confessional encounters in early medieval southern Italy, showing that they could encompass both peace and violence and that mutual intelligibility was the presumed basis for interpersonal encounters. These hagiographical depictions of Muslim–Christian conversations also reveal the nature and process of mutual intelligibility, whether through speech, writing, or bodily gesture.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 1","pages":"94-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143113411","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":"Regino von Prüm. Sendhandbuch/Regino Prumiensis. Libri duo de synodalibus causis. Edited and translated by Wilfried Hartmann. Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Collectiones canonum 1. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 2023. lxiv + 862 pp. in two parts. €248. ISBN 978344711980.","authors":"Greta Austin","doi":"10.1111/emed.12754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12754","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 2","pages":"288-290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852986","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 ends of history? Jerome, Geruchia, and the Rhine crossings","authors":"Mateusz Fafinski","doi":"10.1111/emed.12752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12752","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article revisits Jerome’s treatment of the Rhine crossings of 406 in his letter to the widow Geruchia, and the broader issue of breaching the Roman limes. It argues that his description of the events in Gaul and on the border was framed to fit his notion of the history of salvation. Placing Jerome’s letter to Geruchia in its historical and theological setting, the paper questions the role of contemporary historical details in its composition. Jerome’s account was shaped by hearsay, memory, and tropes from other authors, including Ammianus Marcellinus, alongside the ways that Jerome thought about time, truth, and gender. In this way, the paper casts a new light on what we can say about the early fifth-century invasion of Gaul. The events of 406 are prone to misinterpretation without an analysis of Jerome’s philosophy of history.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 1","pages":"71-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12752","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119015","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":"Narrating providential history: Bede's account of the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria in his Historia ecclesiastica","authors":"Catherine Cubitt","doi":"10.1111/emed.12751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12751","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article takes Bede's account of the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria as a case study in the mechanics and function of narrative. It is now recognized that Bede's sources for his Ecclesiastical History were very limited and that in composing it he relied upon his own deductions as a historian and upon his narrative skill to provide circumstantial detail and causal connections. This article shows how Bede exploited oral narratives to create his account of Edwin's conversion, harmonizing three, conflicting explanations for it. It analyses his use of oral stories, including traditional story types and folkloric stories, and argues that he combined these with additional information of his own invention to endow his History with causality and plausibility. In this, Bede was following the rules of classical rhetoric.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 1","pages":"26-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12751","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117962","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":"Moral restraints on wealth accumulation on papal estates in the long sixth century: revisiting Pope Gregory’s policies on alienating and ceding church property","authors":"Roy Flechner","doi":"10.1111/emed.12749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12749","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Alienation of church property was in most cases forbidden under both imperial and ecclesiastical legislation. Nevertheless, between 592 and 599 Pope Gregory the Great dealt with ten cases in which property was either relinquished by churches or in which he deliberated whether to compel churches to relinquish property. His justification for disposing of it was always moral and it allows us an important insight into the limits of holding church property. It allows us also to define more sharply what alienation meant in practice, beyond the contemporary legal definitions. In a period in which the church was growing ever richer, Gregory’s policies show how the accumulation of wealth could be subject to moral curbs.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 1","pages":"50-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12749","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112396","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":"The Fall of a Carolingian Kingdom: Lotharingia, 855–869. By Charles West. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2023. xv + 236 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978 1 487 54516 1.","authors":"Fraser McNair","doi":"10.1111/emed.12750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12750","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 2","pages":"285-287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852926","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}