{"title":"Viking Camps: Case Studies and Comparisons. Edited by Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson and Irene García Losquiño. London and New York: Routledge. 2023. xvi + 320 pp. £104. ISBN 9781032389493.","authors":"Rory Naismith","doi":"10.1111/emed.12707","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12707","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 2","pages":"237-239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140151129","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":"Wilfrid’s network bishopric and the primacy of York: writing episcopacy in Stephen’s Life of Wilfrid","authors":"Miriam Adan Jones","doi":"10.1111/emed.12702","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12702","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Stephen’s Life of Wilfrid offers valuable insights into the early Northumbrian church, but scholars have disagreed on its aims. This article argues that an important aspect of Stephen’s agenda was to support the episcopal primacy of York among the churches of northern Britain. An examination of Stephen’s terminology and narrative shows that Stephen stresses the importance of York as Wilfrid’s episcopal seat, while presenting Wilfrid’s jurisdiction not as a bounded territory but a wide-reaching pastoral network, capable of encompassing communities in multiple kingdoms. Understanding Stephen’s network model of episcopacy yields new insights into his political aims.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 2","pages":"208-228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140074052","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 Spirituality of Countess Matilda of Tuscany. By Penelope Nash. Bologna: Pàtron editore. 2021. 109 pp. €16. ISBN 9788855535298, 8855535293.","authors":"Francesca Guerri","doi":"10.1111/emed.12700","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12700","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 2","pages":"229-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139780320","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":"Adalbero of Laon's Poem to King Robert (1023–1025/7): a discourse against Cluniac reform or a commentary on monastic hypocrisy?","authors":"Steven Vanderputten","doi":"10.1111/emed.12699","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12699","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The purpose of this paper is to nuance the traditional interpretation of Bishop Adalbero of Laon's satirical <i>Carmen ad Rotbertum regem</i> as a rebuttal of Cluniac reform and its disruptive effect on early eleventh-century society. Study of the text's literary antecedents reveals that its criticism was rooted in a tradition of commentaries on the conduct and attitudes of a much larger monastic cohort. Furthermore, comparison of its argument with evidence about the context and with a number of polemical statements regarding the relations between bishops and monastic leaders since the 990s indicates that the author's focus was on cautioning against abbots’ hypocrisy rather than against a programmatic reform.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 2","pages":"159-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139910659","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":"Human–animal entanglements in the early medieval European slave trade: re-reading the Raffelstetten customs regulations","authors":"Sarah Christensen","doi":"10.1111/emed.12701","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12701","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Frankish customs regulations recorded in the tenth-century ‘Inquest on the tolls of Raffelstetten’ have long formed a cornerstone of traditional arguments about slavery's role in the early medieval European economic revival. This paper experiments with the application of a more-than-human lens to the Raffelstetten record and other evidence to generate new insights into the intimate experience of enslavement and the interspecies networks of relations that shaped the slave trade and slave markets in early medieval Europe. Human and animal entanglements, as revealed in the Raffelstetten record, determined how enslaved people experienced capture, transport, and sale.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 2","pages":"184-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139911180","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 alleged preaching ban in southern Gaul, 431–529: a reassessment of the arguments and evidence","authors":"Michael A. Lovell","doi":"10.1111/emed.12697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12697","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For over one hundred years, scholars have argued that there was a ban on presbyterial preaching in southern Gaul throughout the fifth century. This ban was purportedly lifted at the Council of Vaison (529) at the behest of Caesarius of Arles in order to preach the gospel in the countryside. While scholars have called the effectiveness of the ban into question, this article makes a stronger critique, arguing that there was neither a ban nor a unified local preaching tradition. It further suggests that presbyterial preaching was a critical and highly regulated component of the church’s power in fifth-century Gaul.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"3-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139488273","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":"Ravenna. Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. By Judith Herrin. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2020. xxxvii + 537 pp. $29.95/ £25.76. ISBN 978 0691153438.\u0000 Rome, Ravenna, and Venice, 750–1000: Byzantine Heritage, Imperial Present, and the Construction of City Identity. By Veronica West-Harling. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020. xxxiii + 681 pp. £105. ISBN 9780198754206.\u0000 Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanship. Labour, Culture and the Economy. Edited by Salvatore Cosentino. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. 2020. 331 pp. €115.95 and available on open access. ISBN 9783110684346.","authors":"Tom Brown","doi":"10.1111/emed.12698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12698","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"137-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139488761","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}