{"title":"The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition: From the Sixth to the Sixteenth Centuries. By Yaniv Fox. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 1 + 331 pp. £85. ISBN 9781009285018.","authors":"Catherine-Rose Hailstone","doi":"10.1111/emed.12734","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12734","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"585-587"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931995","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":"Vindolanda Excavation Research Report, Focusing on Post-Roman Vindolanda. By Andrew Birley and Marta Alberti. Hexham: The Vindolanda Trust. 2021. 127 pp., 44 figures, 14 plates. £29.99.","authors":"Ian Wood","doi":"10.1111/emed.12735","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12735","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"588-589"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931993","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":"Roman Liturgy and Frankish Creativity: The Early Medieval Manuscripts of the Ordines Romani. By Arthur Westwell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2024. xiii + 285 pp. $110. ISBN 978 1 009 36048 7.","authors":"John F. Romano","doi":"10.1111/emed.12733","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12733","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"582-584"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141931992","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":"Tenere et Habere: Leihen als soziale Praxis im frühen und hohen Mittelalter. Edited by Jürgen Dendorfer and Steffen Patzold. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag. 2023. 482 pp. €50. ISBN 978 3 7995 5040 6.","authors":"Warren C. Brown","doi":"10.1111/emed.12731","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12731","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"574-578"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778854","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":"La loi Salique: Retour aux manuscrits. By Magali Coumert. Collection Haut Moyen Âge 47. Turnhout: Brepols. 2023. 436 pp. €75. ISBN 978 2 503 59986 1.","authors":"James T. Palmer","doi":"10.1111/emed.12730","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12730","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"571-573"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778766","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":"Une autre histoire. Histoire, temps et passé dans les Vies et Passions latines (IVe–XIe siècle). By Marie-Céline Isaïa. Paris: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes. 2023. 490 pp. €33.50 (print). ISBN 978-2-493209-04-7 (print); ISBN 978-2-493209-06-1 (open access ebook).","authors":"Felice Lifshitz","doi":"10.1111/emed.12728","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12728","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"565-567"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778767","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":"England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, c. 680–1073. By Benjamin Savill. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. xvi + 330 pp. £83. ISBN 9780198887058.","authors":"Francesca Tinti","doi":"10.1111/emed.12729","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12729","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"568-570"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141778768","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":"What is adoration? Contesting meaning in the margins of the Opus Caroli regis contra synodum (c.790–4)","authors":"Huw Foden","doi":"10.1111/emed.12721","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12721","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contradictions over the meaning of adoration (<i>adoratio</i>) in Theodulf of Orléans’ <i>Opus Caroli regis contra synodum</i> have been used to minimize the role of mistranslation in the late eighth-century Greek–Latin dispute over images. This study, however, scrutinizes the contested meaning of adoration in the original manuscript to expose tensions among Charlemagne’s key theological advisers. These fissures reveal the text’s collaborative production and purpose: neither the fully independent work of a lone scholar, nor intended for publication to an extensive audience, but a project to stimulate debate amidst the king’s counsellors.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"387-411"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12721","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141506445","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":"Pierced, looped and framed: the (re)use of gold coins in jewellery in sixth- and seventh-century England","authors":"Katie D. Haworth, Kelly M. Clarke-Neish","doi":"10.1111/emed.12714","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12714","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The early medieval coin-using economy is traditionally conceptualized as a masculine sphere with minimal female involvement. This article examines a corpus of 135 gold and pale gold coins of the later sixth and seventh centuries that underwent modification as coin-pendants, a form of jewellery that belongs almost exclusively to feminine contexts. Analysis of this corpus reveals that these coins were valued <i>as coins</i>, with their attendant symbolic and economic significance, and that this transformation into jewellery did not irreversibly remove them from circulation, offering important evidence for female engagement in the seventh-century coin-based economy.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"337-386"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12714","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141506444","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}