{"title":"Byzantine Attica: An Archaeology of Settlement and Landscape, 4th to 12th Centuries. By Elli Tzavella. Turnhout: Brepols. 2024. 664 pp. €180. ISBN 978 2 503 61120 4.","authors":"Lucas McMahon","doi":"10.1111/emed.12789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12789","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 4","pages":"603-605"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145284874","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":"Slave Trading in the Early Middle Ages: Long-Distance Connections in Northern and East Central Europe. By Janel M. Fontaine. Manchester Medieval Studies. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2025. xiii + 280 pp. £85. ISBN 978 1 5261 6009 6.","authors":"James R. Burns","doi":"10.1111/emed.12787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12787","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 4","pages":"597-599"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145284802","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":"Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690–739): Beyond Mission. By Michel Summer. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Belief and Culture. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2024. xviii + 275 pp. £115. ISBN 978 1 83553 418 2.","authors":"Richard Broome","doi":"10.1111/emed.12788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12788","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 4","pages":"600-602"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145284805","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":"Looking beyond charters and contracts: child slavery in the narrative sources of the early Middle Ages","authors":"Danny Grabe","doi":"10.1111/emed.12785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12785","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer unique details about early medieval child slavery, as the authors embedded their stories in plausible scenarios. The most significant findings include the possible education and subsequent ordination of (former) child slaves, and the corroboration of children being sold alone, as many charters and contracts also attest.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 4","pages":"572-589"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12785","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145284654","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 rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine","authors":"Eddie Meehan","doi":"10.1111/emed.12784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12784","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article uses the reign of Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) as a case study for the historiographical concept of ‘sub-rulership’ in Carolingian Francia. It unpicks how Pippin’s status varied over time, arguing that Pippin’s rulership represents well the tension between kingship as an office and as a dynastic status. Pippin was a king’s son, and therefore became a king, but once he had this title it provided a status linked to, but apart from, his familial ties. This article demonstrates how this relationship played out in practice, from Pippin’s accession to the throne to his own son’s succession.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 4","pages":"545-571"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12784","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145284809","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":"Rethinking the Carolingian Reforms. By Arthur Westwell, Ingrid Rembold, Carine Rhijn (Eds), Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2023. x + 280 pp. ISBN: 9781526149558.","authors":"Cullen J. Chandler","doi":"10.1111/emed.12783","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12783","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 4","pages":"593-596"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145284561","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 visibility of women in tenth-century Rome","authors":"Veronica West-Harling","doi":"10.1111/emed.12780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12780","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Women played a significant part in tenth-century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family <i>senatrices</i>, this paper also highlights the socio-economic, legal and cultural role of many women of lower status. As donors, buyers and lessees, able to acquire property as well as to dispose of it within Roman law, their impact as part of a family group or in their own name becomes far more visible than either earlier or later.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 4","pages":"522-544"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12780","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145284872","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":"From redistribution to the market: large estates, exchanges, markets and tolls in northern Italy (ninth–eleventh centuries)","authors":"Alessio Fiore","doi":"10.1111/emed.12781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12781","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The aim of this article is to discuss forms of domestic exchange in the north of the kingdom of Italy between the late ninth and early eleventh centuries. In the early part of this period the economy of the area was based on large rural estates and redistributive exchanges. Only from the late tenth century did economic structures change, with a sharp increase in commercial activities, and a focus of manufacturing activity on cities. However, this reconfiguration of the economic system, fully accomplished by the mid-eleventh century, did not result in an economic take-off.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 4","pages":"467-496"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145284763","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":"Amateur justice in Carolingian Bavaria","authors":"Amos Bronner","doi":"10.1111/emed.12782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12782","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines judges and judgement in Bavarian dispute charters from the first decades of the ninth century. It argues that justice in Carolingian Bavaria was an amateur affair, in which of primary importance was the ability to create a stable consensus around an outcome. Accordingly, distinctions between judges and other participants in judicial assemblies were blurred, and the capacities in which assembly-goers participated often blended into each other. Even when royal agents intervened in the region, they did this mainly through, rather than against, the consensus dynamics of local judicial assemblies.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 4","pages":"497-521"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12782","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145284762","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":"Mapping women’s relational networks in Carolingian Septimania, 795–850","authors":"Courtney Luckhardt","doi":"10.1111/emed.12779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12779","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using the Digital Humanities methods of network analysis and visualization to study the social networks of migrants and locals in the charters of Carolingian Septimania, this article argues that within these documents women played a central role in the relational social actions of kinship, patronage, and legal ties. The diffuse, horizontal social networks visually demonstrate how migration to the Marca Hispanica from both Hispania and Francia allowed many people, including women, to take advantage of a socio-economic system in flux.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 3","pages":"412-435"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144574275","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}