Early Medieval EuropePub Date : 2026-07-05Epub Date: 2026-04-29DOI: 10.1111/emed.70039
Richard Purkiss
{"title":"Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia: The Place-Name Evidence. By David Boulton. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 2023. xvi + 224 pp. 58 figures (colour and b/w). £39.95 (paperback). ISBN 978 1 914427 25 1.","authors":"Richard Purkiss","doi":"10.1111/emed.70039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 3","pages":"505-507"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148389153","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 : 2026-07-05Epub Date: 2026-05-04DOI: 10.1111/emed.70045
Jesse Keskiaho
{"title":"In the Footsteps of the Ancient Fathers. The Construction and Use of Patristic Authority in the Carolingian Era. By Josh Timmermann. Receptio Patristica 3. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2025. xiv + 337 pp. + 14 colour figures. €138. ISBN 9789004690264.","authors":"Jesse Keskiaho","doi":"10.1111/emed.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 3","pages":"523-525"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148389161","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 : 2026-07-05Epub Date: 2026-05-06DOI: 10.1111/emed.70046
Christoph Haack
{"title":"(Un)Doing History: Thinking with the European Middle Ages. By Vanita Seth. London and New York: Routledge. 2025. xiv + 182 pp. £ 41.99 (paperback). ISBN 978 1 032 81341 7.","authors":"Christoph Haack","doi":"10.1111/emed.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 3","pages":"529-532"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148389256","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 : 2026-07-05Epub Date: 2026-04-26DOI: 10.1111/emed.70036
Kate R. Falardeau
{"title":"‘He would gather us priests into one’: Bede’s Martyrology, priestly education, and the Carolingian project in the ninth century","authors":"Kate R. Falardeau","doi":"10.1111/emed.70036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bede’s Martyrology (<i>c</i>. 725–31), a calendrical list of martyrs, is found within ninth-century manuscripts that may be inferred to have been for the use of Carolingian bishops or priests. Contemporaneous normative texts authored by some bishops prescribed the ownership and use of martyrologies by priests. Pastoral and/or educational manuscripts that contain Bede’s Martyrology provide evidence for the implementation of these prescriptions. I argue that this manuscript evidence reveals the potential role of martyrologies as an edifying resource within pastoral curricula, and also shows how priests and bishops outside of the court circle may have shaped the Carolingian endeavour.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 3","pages":"411-434"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148389123","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 : 2026-07-05Epub Date: 2026-04-27DOI: 10.1111/emed.70035
Emily Quigley
{"title":"Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle","authors":"Emily Quigley","doi":"10.1111/emed.70035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh-century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before <span>ad</span> 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition. Close examination of the chronicle reveals diverse portrayals of queenship, with women acting as autonomous political actors rather than being defined by their reproductive capacity or their piety, as was common in early medieval chronicles. This article argues that Fredegar saw women as integral actors in his vision of universal history.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 3","pages":"458-479"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.70035","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148389148","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 : 2026-07-05Epub Date: 2026-05-03DOI: 10.1111/emed.70040
Robert Gallagher
{"title":"The Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig, 939–959. Edited by Mary Elizabeth Blanchard and Christopher Riedel. Anglo-Saxon Studies 48. Woodbridge: Boydell. 2024. xiv + 222 pp. £85/$120 (hardback); £19/$24 (eBook). ISBN 9781783277643.","authors":"Robert Gallagher","doi":"10.1111/emed.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 3","pages":"516-519"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148389108","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 : 2026-07-05Epub Date: 2026-04-30DOI: 10.1111/emed.70037
Jonathan Dell Isola
{"title":"Shaping dynastic history in the charters of Arnulf of Carinthia","authors":"Jonathan Dell Isola","doi":"10.1111/emed.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The successful coup of Arnulf of Carinthia in 887 resulted in a new political world in the former Carolingian Empire. For the first time since 751, non-Carolingian rulers appeared in West Francia, Italy, and Upper Burgundy. Historians have seen this as a moment when the power and mythology of Carolingian dynastic supremacy lost its lustre. Yet charters from the remaining Carolingian ruler, Arnulf, reveal that Carolingian pedigree continued to matter. This article argues that Arnulf’s charters created a tailored version of the dynastic past to present himself as the rightful ruler through processes of elision and addition.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 3","pages":"480-504"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148389087","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 : 2026-07-05Epub Date: 2026-05-06DOI: 10.1111/emed.70042
Rutger Kramer
{"title":"Fränkische Herrschererlasse 814–840. Edited and translated by Stefan Esders, Sören Kaschke, Britta Mischke, Steffen Patzold, Dominik Trump and Karl Ubl. Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Capitularia Regum Francorum, Nova Series IV. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag. 2024. 2 vols, CIX + 823 pp. €248. ISBN 978 3 447 11979 5.","authors":"Rutger Kramer","doi":"10.1111/emed.70042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 3","pages":"526-528"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148389255","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 : 2026-04-07Epub Date: 2026-02-17DOI: 10.1111/emed.70026
Alexander Lombardo
{"title":"Collectio CCCC capitulorum. The Collection in 400 Chapters: Introduction and Text. Edited by Sven Meeder. Monumenta Iuris Canonici. Series B: Corpus Collectionum 11. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press. 2025. lviii + 145 pp. $85. ISBN 978 0 8132 3847 0.","authors":"Alexander Lombardo","doi":"10.1111/emed.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 2","pages":"353-355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683772","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 : 2026-04-07Epub Date: 2026-02-17DOI: 10.1111/emed.70028
Andy Merrills
{"title":"Living at the Margins: African Peasants in an Age of Extremes 300–900 ce. By Paolo Tedesco. Stuttgart: Hiersemann. 2025. 361 pp. €164. ISBN 978 3 7772 2513 5.","authors":"Andy Merrills","doi":"10.1111/emed.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"34 2","pages":"358-360"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683087","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}