{"title":"The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland. By Lindy Brady. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. x + 272 pp. £75. ISBN 9781009225618.","authors":"Rebecca Thomas","doi":"10.1111/emed.12726","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12726","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"441-443"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141506447","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":"Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy. By Caroline Goodson. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2021. xxi + 300 pp., 27 b/w plates and figures, 5 tables. £75.00 (hardback); £25.99 (paperback). ISBN 9781108489119.","authors":"Bryan Ward-Perkins","doi":"10.1111/emed.12724","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12724","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"438-440"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141529528","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":"Elephant ivory rings in early medieval graves reconsidered","authors":"Rowan S. English","doi":"10.1111/emed.12715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12715","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>This work is the most complete investigation to date of the enigmatic ivory rings found in graves of fifth- to seventh-century lowland Britain. This new survey of the archaeological evidence has produced a corpus of 752 ivory rings from seventy-eight cemeteries. This corpus has been used to reveal a novel pattern of use, with the majority of ivory rings deposited in eastern England in the fifth century. In the sixth century, the distribution widened, and the number of rings deposited decreased. Most of the ivory rings in lowland Britain were deposited before 560</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"306-336"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12715","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141597003","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":"Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch. From Hagiography to History. By Lucy Parker. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. xv + 270 pp. £81. ISBN 9780192865175.","authors":"Robert Wiśniewski","doi":"10.1111/emed.12725","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12725","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"434-437"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141194303","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 Wandering Mind. What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction. By Jamie Kreiner. New York: Liveright Publishing. 2023. 274 pp. $30.00 (hardback); $18.99 (paperback). ISBN 978 1 63149 805 3.","authors":"Albrecht Diem","doi":"10.1111/emed.12722","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12722","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"430-433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141194300","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":"Networks of Bishops, Networks of Texts: Manuscripts, Legal Culture, Tools of Government in Carolingian Italy at the Time of Lothar I, Edited by Gianmarco De Angelis and Franceso Veronese. Reti Medievali E-Book 41. Florence: Firenze University Press. 2022. 232 pp. + 23 b/w figures. €29,90. ISBN 978 88 5518 622 3 (paperback); ISBN 978 88 5518 624 7 (ebook).","authors":"Bastiaan Waagmeester","doi":"10.1111/emed.12723","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12723","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"427-429"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141194476","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":"Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean. Empires, Cities and Elites 476–1204, Papers in Honour of Thomas S. Brown. Edited by Thomas J. MacMaster and Nicholas S.M. Matheou. Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies. Milton and New York: Routledge. 2021. xvii+381 pp. + 22 ill. £116. ISBN 978 1 138 09131 3 (hardback).","authors":"Clemens Gantner","doi":"10.1111/emed.12716","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"424-426"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141149308","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":"Rome in the Ninth Century. A History in Art. By John Osborne. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2023. xx + 348 pp. £85. ISBN 978 1009415378.","authors":"Caroline Goodson","doi":"10.1111/emed.12713","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"421-423"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140836039","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":"Who in the world are the Heruli?1","authors":"Salvatore Liccardo","doi":"10.1111/emed.12712","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12712","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The history of the Heruli represents a historical conundrum. Because of the poor state of the sources, caution is required when analysing this subject. However, the peculiarity of the case encourages us to rethink the way we conceive of and describe migrations in Late Antiquity. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the history of the Heruli, this article offers a new analysis of the written evidence, identifies a need for different mapping strategies, and offers a possible interpretation of the origins of the so-called eastern and western Heruli.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"284-305"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12712","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140625256","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 fortified site at Lanaken near Maastricht (Belgium/the Netherlands). New insights on early medieval military and elite strategies in the middle Meuse valley","authors":"Ewoud Deschepper, Wim De Clercq, Elke Wesemael","doi":"10.1111/emed.12704","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12704","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Archaeological excavation near Maastricht (the Netherlands) in the town of Lanaken (Belgium) revealed a previously unknown wooden-and-earth fortified site dating back to <i>c</i>.650–800. The fortification's construction, layout and dimensions are indicative of Roman military practice, suggesting active application of this practice during the early medieval period. This research delves into the implications of this discovery, shedding light on early medieval military strategies in the region and providing insights into potential historical contexts surrounding the fortified sitecation's construction and use. In so doing, it makes an important contribution to ongoing discussions regarding the nature of early medieval military organization and elite society.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"245-283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140599054","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}