{"title":"Life in Early Medieval Wales. By Nancy Edwards. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2023. xv + 511 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 873321 8.","authors":"Howard Williams","doi":"10.1111/emed.12744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12744","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"33 1","pages":"130-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143115266","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":"Better dead than shorn. The killing of Chlodomer’s sons and the character of Queen Clotilde","authors":"Willum Westenholz","doi":"10.1111/emed.12737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12737","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article studies the portrayal of the character of Clotilde in Gregory of Tours’s <i>Decem libri historiarum</i> with particular attention paid to the killing of Chlodomer’s sons (3.18). It argues that this, along with other episodes attested in Fredegar, is a contaminations from a tradition in which Clotilde was portrayed as a <i>virago</i> in contrast to the quasi-hagiographical Tours tradition on which Gregory in the main depended. This creates an internal tension in her character that later authors, both scholarly and belletristic, have either attempted to minimize or to bring into the foreground in their own narratives.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"447-473"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142674341","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":"A polyptych in the margins: accounting notes from early tenth-century Laon","authors":"Ildar Garipzanov","doi":"10.1111/emed.12727","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12727","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper provides the first edition and thorough examination of marginal notes added to a ninth-century Carolingian manuscript (Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 424). A detailed paleographic, codicological, linguistic, and historical analysis of these additions allows us not only to trace their provenance to the early tenth-century see of Laon but also to show that their anonymous author was a high-status cleric on the episcopal staff. The range of his practical marginalia – which included polyptych notes, lists of payments, and a list of names – points at various accounting practices he was involved in and indicates that he played an important role in facilitating the social power of ecclesiastical lordship over its localities.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"518-542"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12727","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142182737","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":"I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall","authors":"Michael Eber","doi":"10.1111/emed.12736","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12736","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses a ninth-century copy of the <i>Liber monstrorum</i> from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the <i>Liber monstrorum</i> into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s <i>Etymologiae</i>, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’. Combined with an ambiguously gendered depiction of Christ added to the <i>Liber monstrorum</i> by a later user, this suggests that there were some in early medieval St Gall who saw being ‘of both sexes’ – which could be interpreted to reflect same-sex attraction, and/or non-binary, intersex, and trans identities – as natural, even potentially Christ-like.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 4","pages":"543-564"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12736","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142182747","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 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}