{"title":"The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne. By Sam Ottewill-Soulsby. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2023. xviii + 363 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978 0 691 22796 2.","authors":"Kenneth Baxter Wolf","doi":"10.1111/emed.12710","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12710","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"418-420"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140302720","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":"English Coronation Ordines in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Edited by David Pratt. Henry Bradshaw Society 125. London: The Boydell Press for the Henry Bradshaw Society. 2023. xviii+245 pp. £60. ISBN 97819074973771.","authors":"Sarah Hamilton","doi":"10.1111/emed.12709","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12709","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"415-417"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140302359","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":"Barbari e pagani. Religione e società in Europa nel tardoantico. By Giovanni Alberto Cecconi. Bari and Rome: Laterza. 2022. xxii + 268 pp. €24. ISBN 978 88 58146 68 2.","authors":"Lucy Grig","doi":"10.1111/emed.12711","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12711","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 3","pages":"412-414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140226726","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":"Baduila: Politics and Warfare at the End of Ostrogothic Italy. By Marco Cristini. Istituzioni e società 27. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo. 2022. xii + 280 pp. €30. ISBN 978 88 6809 365 5.","authors":"Michael Wuk","doi":"10.1111/emed.12708","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 2","pages":"239-241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140151077","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":"New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’. Crop, Stock and Furrow. Edited By Mark McKerracher and Helena Hamerow. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2022. 304 pp., 20 plates, 55 figures, 10 tables. £28. ISBN 9781802077230.","authors":"Christopher Hopkins","doi":"10.1111/emed.12706","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emed.12706","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44508,"journal":{"name":"Early Medieval Europe","volume":"32 2","pages":"235-237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140151079","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":"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}