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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Michael Eber
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’. Combined with an ambiguously gendered depiction of Christ added to the Liber
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A polyptych in the margins: accounting notes from early tenth‐century Laon Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Ildar Garipzanov
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
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Frères et sœurs dans l'Europe du haut Moyen Âge (vers 650‐vers 1000). By JustineAudebrand. Haut Moyen Âge 48. Turnhout: Brepols. 2023. 438 pp., 33 b/w and 9 colour illustrations. €95. ISBN 978 2 503 60496 1 (paperback); ISBN 978 2 503 60497 8 (e‐book). Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Rachel Stone
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The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition: From the Sixth to the Sixteenth Centuries. By YanivFox. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 1 + 331 pp. £85. ISBN 9781009285018. Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Catherine‐Rose Hailstone
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La loi Salique: Retour aux manuscrits. By MagaliCoumert. Collection Haut Moyen Âge47. Turnhout: Brepols. 2023. 436 pp. €75. ISBN 978 2 503 59986 1. Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 James T. Palmer
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Une autre histoire. Histoire, temps et passé dans les Vies et Passions latines (IVe–XIe siècle). By Marie‐CélineIsaïa. Paris: Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes. 2023. 490 pp. €33.50 (print). ISBN 978‐2‐493209‐04‐7 (print); ISBN 978‐2‐493209‐06‐1 (open access ebook). Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Felice Lifshitz
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Issue Information Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-07-11
No abstract is available for this article.
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Pierced, looped and framed: the (re)use of gold coins in jewellery in sixth‐ and seventh‐century England Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Katie D. Haworth, Kelly M. Clarke‐Neish
The early medieval coin‐using economy is traditionally conceptualized as a masculine sphere with minimal female involvement. This article examines a corpus of 135 gold and pale gold coins of the later sixth and seventh centuries that underwent modification as coin‐pendants, a form of jewellery that belongs almost exclusively to feminine contexts. Analysis of this corpus reveals that these coins were
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What is adoration? Contesting meaning in the margins of the Opus Caroli regis contra synodum (c.790–4) Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Huw Foden
Contradictions over the meaning of adoration (adoratio) in Theodulf of Orléans’ Opus Caroli regis contra synodum have been used to minimize the role of mistranslation in the late eighth‐century Greek–Latin dispute over images. This study, however, scrutinizes the contested meaning of adoration in the original manuscript to expose tensions among Charlemagne’s key theological advisers. These fissures
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The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland. By LindyBrady. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. x + 272 pp. £75. ISBN 9781009225618. Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Rebecca Thomas
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Cultivating the City in Early Medieval Italy. By CarolineGoodson. 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. Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Bryan Ward‐Perkins
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Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch. From Hagiography to History. By LucyParker. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. xv + 270 pp. £81. ISBN 9780192865175. Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Robert Wiśniewski
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Networks of Bishops, Networks of Texts: Manuscripts, Legal Culture, Tools of Government in Carolingian Italy at the Time of Lothar I, Edited by GianmarcoDe Angelis and FrancesoVeronese. Reti Medievali E‐Book41. 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). Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Bastiaan Waagmeester
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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). Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Clemens Gantner
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Rome in the Ninth Century. A History in Art. By JohnOsborne. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2023. xx + 348 pp. £85. ISBN 978 1009415378. Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Caroline Goodson
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Who in theworldare the Heruli?1 Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Salvatore Liccardo
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
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Issue Information Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-11
No abstract is available for this article.
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The fortified site at Lanaken near Maastricht (Belgium/the Netherlands). New insights on early medieval military and elite strategies in the middle Meuse valley Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Ewoud Deschepper, Wim De Clercq, Elke Wesemael
Archaeological excavation near Maastricht (the Netherlands) in the town of Lanaken (Belgium) revealed a previously unknown wooden-and-earth fortified site dating back to c.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
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New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’. Crop, Stock and Furrow. Edited By MarkMcKerracher and HelenaHamerow. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2022. 304 pp., 20 plates, 55 figures, 10 tables. £28. ISBN 9781802077230. Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Christopher Hopkins
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Feeding the Byzantine City: The Archaeology of Consumption in the Eastern Mediterranean (ca. 500–1500). Edited by JoanitaVroom. Medieval and Post‐Medieval Mediterranean Archaeology5. Turnhout: Brepols. 2023. 350 pp. + 157 figures, chiefly colour. €75. ISBN 978 2 503 60566 1. ISSN 2565 8719. Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Lucas McMahon
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Wilfrid’s network bishopric and the primacy of York: writing episcopacy in Stephen’s Life of Wilfrid Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Miriam Adan Jones
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
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Adalbero of Laon's Poem to King Robert (1023–1025/7): a discourse against Cluniac reform or a commentary on monastic hypocrisy? Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Steven Vanderputten
The purpose of this paper is to nuance the traditional interpretation of Bishop Adalbero of Laon's satirical Carmen ad Rotbertum regem 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.
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Human–animal entanglements in the early medieval European slave trade: re-reading the Raffelstetten customs regulations Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Sarah Christensen
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
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Issue Information Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18
No abstract is available for this article.
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The alleged preaching ban in southern Gaul, 431–529: a reassessment of the arguments and evidence Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Michael A. Lovell
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
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Why the Turks? On the etymological method in Fredegar's account of the Trojan Franks Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Julia Verkholantsev
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 Chronicle of Fredegar 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
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Shane Bobrycki
The word cocio (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 cocio continued to refer to petty commercial agents, that is, to small merchants.
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A collection of no authority: canon law and the Collectio 91 capitulorum Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Sven Meeder
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
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Issue Information Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-13
No abstract is available for this article.
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The consul vanishes? On using and not using Gregory the Great's Register in early medieval England Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Benjamin Savill
This article builds upon recent scholarship emphasizing the importance of Gregory the Great's Register as a key text of the Carolingian and post-Carolingian library, exploring by contrast its peculiarly limited reception in England. It first surveys what little evidence we have for its citation by English ecclesiastics (post-c.1000, mostly via Wulfstan); it then examines the single text in a pre-Conquest
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Archbishop Wulfstan’s criticism of King Edgar in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Nicholas Peter Schwartz
Archbishop Wulfstan of York’s interpolation in the DE version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry for the year 959 is out of character for both the churchman himself and for the pre-Conquest period as a whole, as it is the only text from early England critical of King Edgar. This article shows that Wulfstan’s complaints about Edgar, which focus on the king’s policies related to Scandinavians in England
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Changing queenships in tenth-century England: rhetoric and (self-)representation in the case of Eadgifu of Kent at Cooling Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Jonathan Tickle
The charter now known as Sawyer 1211 contains a detailed account of an intergenerational property dispute between Queen Eadgifu and her rival Goda, concerning the possession of two Kentish estates. Typically, the charter has either been understood as evidence of dispute settlement or to establish facts about Eadgifu that are otherwise unattested. This article argues that Sawyer 1211 has further value
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Teaching monastic masculinity with the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Maroula Perisanidi
I focus on the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham to show how it contributed to gender formation by teaching boys not only Latin, but also what it meant to be a man of the monastery. I discuss how the professions the boys role-played encouraged them to think of the monk as the most masculine option, and how verbal experimentation allowed their violent impulses to be redirected from physical towards intellectual
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Bede, Æthelberht, and the ‘examples of the Romans’ in early medieval England Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Andrew Rabin
In Book II, Chapter 5 of the Historia ecclesiastica, Bede writes that the Kentish king Æthelberht had, ‘with the advice of his counsellors, established legal enactments according to the examples of the Romans.’ This article argues that Bede’s formulation serves as a means of characterizing the increasingly interventionist role played by early Kentish kings in making the laws issued in their names.
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The fall of Merovingian Italy, 561–5 Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Sihong Lin
After the end of the Gothic War in the mid-sixth century, northern Italy remained divided between the Merovingian Franks and the eastern Roman Empire. In the 560s the Frankish territories were finally taken by imperial armies, but the end of Merovingian Italy is variably dated between 561 and 565. Drawing on the eastern evidence provided by the panegyrist Corippus, this article argues that there is
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Issue Information Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-17
No abstract is available for this article.
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Qualifying Mediterranean connectivity: Byzantium and the Franks during the seventh century Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Mischa Meier, Steffen Patzold
In the last two decades, historians researching the seventh century ce have increasingly emphasized mobility, communications and connectivity across the Mediterranean world that supposedly included close contacts between the Franks and Byzantium. These studies, however, rely often on optimistic, maximum interpretations of the comparatively sparse source base, and have not always precisely distinguished
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Introduction Mobility and migration in the early medieval Mediterranean Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Claudia Rapp
Historians have long acknowledged that mobility is a structuring feature of all societies, quite independent of large-scale migrations. In recent decades, increased attention to global and transcultural history has resulted in a greater interest in the history of networks and entanglements that hold regions and people together, whether across large distances or on a smaller scale. It is the mobility
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Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story? Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Claudia Rapp
This article underlines the importance of approaching written sources for what they are: authorial constructs. This is true also for depictions of mobility and migration. Byzantine authors instrumentalized these for their own purposes beyond the event at hand. Authorial focus, along with the requirements of the chosen literary genre, is also the reason for the different scales of actors that appear
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Mobility in seventh-century Byzantium: analysing Emperor Heraclius’ political ideology and propaganda Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Paraskevi Sykopetritou
This paper aims to shed light on the mobility of people and relics in the seventh century. It will show that Emperor Heraclius strategically designed his movements and those of his household, citizens, and officials, as well as those of relics within and beyond the borders of Byzantium, in order to consolidate the empire and his position in it. These movements also allowed Heraclius to associate himself
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Saints’ mobility and confinement: deconstructing Byzantine stories of (fe)male ascetics and monastics Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Christodoulos Papavarnavas
This article investigates stories of holiness which have ascetics or monastics as their hero(in)es and which develop based on a careful interlocking of two concepts: wanderings in urban or desert environments and self-confinement in enclosed or secluded spaces. Through a close reading of two saints’ Lives (i.e., the Life of Mary of Egypt and the Life of Matrona of Perge) dating to the early and middle
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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Grigori Simeonov
The present paper deals with forced migration experienced by subjects of the Byzantine Empire captured by foreign enemies in the context of warfare between the seventh and the tenth centuries. The focus of the first part is on the scenarios faced by individuals and groups when an enemy had taken control of a settlement or a larger territory. The second part discusses aspects of the role social status
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A coin of Queen Fastrada and Charlemagne Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Simon Coupland
A Carolingian coin has recently been acquired by the Centre Charlemagne in Aachen which represents an entirely unexpected and truly historic addition to our knowledge of the reign of Charlemagne, as it bears the name of his wife Fastrada. It is the first known example of a queen being named on a Carolingian coin, and because the coin type was only introduced in 793 and Fastrada died in August 794,
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Issue Information Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-23
No abstract is available for this article.
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Constructing clandestine communities: oaths of collective secrecy and conceptual boundaries in the late antique Mediterranean Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Michael Wuk
This article explores fourth- to seventh-century narratives about oaths of collective secrecy, which our sources typically frame negatively. By examining the terminology used in reference to these promises, the dynamics inherent in the practice and its relationship to oath-taking customs in other contexts, and the influence of Christianity on the discourses around such pledges, we can see that late
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Spelling correctness as a witness of changing documentary culture in Tuscia (eighth–ninth centuries) Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-23 Timo Korkiakangas
This paper discusses the evolution of documentary culture in early medieval Tuscia by quantitatively examining the Latin spelling of charter scribes in relation to the following factors: time, the distinction between the formulaic and non-formulaic parts of the document, the scribe’s domicile, the scribe’s professional status, and the document type. The paper asks what the spelling of charters tells
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Guthlac at Medeshamstede? Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Paul Everson, David Stocker
This paper proposes that the early monastery at Medeshamstede (later Peterborough) was the sponsor and supporter of the hermit saint, Guthlac, on the fenland island of Crowland. It locates that initiative in the early Benedictine practice in England. It is argued that Medeshamstede subsequently sustained the saint’s pre-Viking cult, and is the best candidate for the location where Felix produced the
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Landholding in the Loire valley and the late Carolingian economy (c.840–c.1000) Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Niall Ó Súilleabháin
This article builds on recent work on the Carolingian economy by giving an overview of landholding patterns and associated economic activity in the Loire valley in the ninth and tenth centuries. It demonstrates that only individuals and institutions with access to patronage from the royal fisc possessed large, unified estates; the majority of land was held as small, fragmented farmsteads. Moreover
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Re-examining Hrabanus Maurus’ letter on incest and magic Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Matthew B. Edholm
This article offers a reanalysis of Hrabanus’ mid-ninth-century text De magicis artibus. Often read and studied as a complete work, the De magicis artibus is in fact one portion of a longer text that also discusses incest and marriage practices. Furthermore, the single surviving copy of the text is deliberately attached to another work by Hrabanus, his Poenitentiale ad Otgarium. This article argues
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Issue Information Early Medieval Europe (IF 0.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-17
No abstract is available for this article.