{"title":"Beyond the Monastery Walls. Lay Men and Women in Early Medieval Legal Formularies. By Warren C. Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2023. xiv + 385 pp. £29.99. ISBN 978 1 108 47958 5.","authors":"Horst Lößlein","doi":"10.1111/emed.12693","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"130-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136347210","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":"Why the Turks? On the etymological method in Fredegar's account of the Trojan Franks","authors":"Julia Verkholantsev","doi":"10.1111/emed.12687","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12687","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>This article is part of a larger project that seeks to understand the role of the etymological method in historical writings. I analyse the account of the Trojan origin of the Franks in the</i> Chronicle of Fredegar <i>and demonstrate that Fredegar uses the etymological method as an epistemological resource and a catalyst to the narrative, and that taking this into account sheds light on some of Fredegar's narrative choices. Particularly, the use of the etymological method explains the extraordinary association of the Franks with the Turks, which has long puzzled historians. My conclusions advocate for an inclusive and methodologically careful consideration of etymological stories to understand the internal logic of medieval historical narratives and the methods that shape their messages. My reading suggests that Fredegar's is not a story of ethnic uniqueness but a scholarly account of kinship between the peoples of Eurasia</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"32-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136348157","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":"Bishop Æthelwold, his Followers, and Saints’ Cults in Early Medieval England: Power, Belief, and Religious Reform. By Alison Hudson. Anglo-Saxon Studies 43. Woodbridge and Rochester: Boydell Press. 2022. xv + 312 pp. + 9 b/w, 1 colour illustrations. £65 / $95. ISBN 978 1 78327 685 1.","authors":"Stephan Bruhn","doi":"10.1111/emed.12692","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12692","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"144-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136346694","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":"Venantius Fortunatus and Gallic Christianity: Theology in the Writings of an Italian Émigré in Merovingian Gaul. By Benjamin Wheaton. Leiden: Brill. 2022. 1 + 293 pp. €109. ISBN 9789004521940.","authors":"Catherine-Rose Hailstone","doi":"10.1111/emed.12689","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12689","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"151-154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136348565","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":"1050 Jahre Erzbistum Magdeburg (968–2018). Die Errichtung und Etablierung des Erzbistums im europäischen und regionalen Kontext (10.–12. Jahrhundert) / I 1050 anni dell’arcivescovato di Magdeburgo. La fondazione e il consolidamento dell’arcivescovato nel contesto europeo e regionale (secoli X–XII). Edited by Enno Bünz and Wolfgang Huschner. Italia Regia 6. Leipzig: Eudora-Verlag. 2022. 440 pp. 55 b/w illustrations, 6 tables, 2 diagrams and 2 maps. €99. ISBN 978 3 938533 81 9.","authors":"Levi Roach","doi":"10.1111/emed.12694","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12694","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"134-136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136346874","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":"Frisians of the Early Middle Ages. Edited by John Hines and Nelleke IJssennagger-van Pluijm. Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology 10. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2021. xiv + 423 pp. with many maps and illustrations. £75. ISBN 978 1 78327 561 8.","authors":"Rolf H. Bremmer Jr","doi":"10.1111/emed.12688","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12688","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"141-144"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136347211","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":"Frankish Manuscripts: The Seventh to the Tenth Century. By Lawrence Nees. A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France 2. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller. 2022. 2 volumes: I Text and Illustrations, 288 pp., 29 b/w, 302 colour illustrations; II Catalogue, 420 pp. €295. ISBN 978 1 872501 25 3.","authors":"Anna Dorofeeva","doi":"10.1111/emed.12691","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12691","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"147-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136348278","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 Falls of Rome. Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity. By Michele Renee Salzman. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2021. xv + 445 pp. £29.99. ISBN 9781107111424.","authors":"Muriel Moser","doi":"10.1111/emed.12690","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12690","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"149-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136346864","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 Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant","authors":"Shane Bobrycki","doi":"10.1111/emed.12683","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12683","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The word <i>cocio</i> (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous. The Carolingian <i>cocio</i> continued to refer to petty commercial agents, that is, to small merchants. Furthermore, the term’s appearance in capitularies and its subsequent medieval vernacular afterlife together suggest that the term was borrowed from (unattested) proto-Romance usage. A corrected history of the early medieval use of <i>cocio</i> illuminates the relationship between spoken and written Latin as well as aspects of social, religious, and economic history in the Carolingian period, and speaks to the promise of language to shed light on economic realities.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"57-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12683","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135870639","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":"A collection of no authority: canon law and the Collectio 91 capitulorum","authors":"Sven Meeder","doi":"10.1111/emed.12686","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12686","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Normative texts need to be authoritative to be effective in communicating norms and rules. Recent scholarship has shown a renewed interest in the authoritative status of the texts within early medieval works of canon law and the ways in which authority is reflected in the practice of attribution, promulgation, or organization. A small canonical collection known as the Collectio 91 capitulorum appears to flout the received knowledge. The current article presents this modest collection. It explores the relationship between ‘authority’ and canon law in general, and examines the negotiation of authority within this collection in particular.</p>","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 1","pages":"82-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emed.12686","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135616661","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}