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John Marshall Carter. <italic>Medieval Games: Sports and Recreation in Feudal Society</italic>. (Contributions to the Study of World History, number 30.) New York: Greenwood. 1992. Pp. xiii, 159. $42.95 by Kelly Devries None <eot>
BARBARIANS, CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND THE RISE OF WESTERN EUROPE: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ESSAY by Klavs Randsborg BARBARIANS, CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY AND THE RISE OF WESTERN EUROPE: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ESSAY Get access Klavs Randsborg Institute of Archaeology, University Copenhagen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford...
Medieval Military Technology. by Bernard S. Bachrach|Kelly Devries List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Arms and Armor Chapter 1: The Spear/Lance Axe Sword Dagger Staff-Weapon Mace War Hammer Sling Bow Crossbow 2: Early Medieval in the Bayeux Tapestry Twelfth-Century Shields, Helmets, Heraldry ...
Augustine’s new Trinity: The anxious circle of metaphor by Eugene Webb None <eot>
MISSIONARIES AND MAGIC IN DARK-AGE EUROPE by Alexander Murray None <eot>
VITRUVIUS IN A CAROLINGIAN EDEN: THE GENESIS CYCLE FROM THE "MOÛTIER-GRANDVAL BIBLE" by John F. Moffitt Previous articleNext article No AccessVITRUVIUS IN A CAROLINGIAN EDEN: THE GENESIS CYCLE FROM "MOÛTIER-GRANDVAL BIBLE"John F. MoffittJohn Moffitt Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favorites...
Anatomy of the Resisting Reader: Some Implications of Resistance to Sexual Wordplay in Medieval Literature by Sheila Delany BOTTOM We will meet, and there we may rehearse most obscenely courageously. (A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1.1.96–7) <eot>
Ælfric and Smaragdus by Joyce Hill In his Latin preface to the First Series of Catholic Homilies , Ælfric lists six source authors: Augustine, Jerome, Bede, Gregory, Smaragdus and Haymo. The fact that Haymo is named in a phrase own at end, ‘et aliquando Haymonem’, specified as being used ‘aliquando’, suggests he was ...
One Heart and One Soul (Acts 4.32 and 34) in Dhuoda's “Manual” by Glenn W. Olsen For the contemporary historian, whether male, gray-haired and ensconced in ivory tower of an old-fashioned political or intellectual history, female, young, happily dismantling by seige-machine social Carolingian society is a source cont...
Hagiography and the Cult of Saints: The Diocese of Orleans, 800-1200. by Thomas F. X. Noble|Thomas Head Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Carolingian period 2. Capetian 3. ideal of sanctity: formation, imitation, and dissemination 4. posthumous patronage the saints 5. Saintly Episcopal authority at Abbey Micy 6. S...
The transmission of Aldhelm's writings in early medieval Spain by Andrew Breeze Although writings of Aldhelm ( c. 635– 709) were widely known in early Spain, modern Spain they are hardly at all. An entry on a recent Spanish book medieval Latin makes the latter point vividly: ‘Bibliografía: Escasa. Autor casi olvidado...
Lydgate, Hawes, and the Science of Rhetoric in the Late Middle Ages by Rita Copeland None <eot>
The Spoken Word in International Contacts in Carolingian Europe by Paul Christophersen Preview this article: The Spoken Word in International Contacts Carolingian Europe, Page 1 of < Previous page | Next > /docserver/preview/fulltext/nowele.20.04chr-1.gif <eot>
Who Composed 'Havelok' for Whom? by Robert A. Levine Lessons learned in attempting to determine who made up the audience for medieval fabliaux have not been transferred problem of Middle English romances. Havelok particular has generated a confused and confusing discussion, partly because those speculated on tend rel...
Human impact as registered in the pollen record: some results from the western Lake Constance region, Southern Germany by Manfred Rösch None <eot>
Pas oikos Israhl: Ezekiel and the Politics of Resurrection in Tenth-Century Byzantium by Anne Cutler None <eot>
The External School in Carolingian Society by Hildebrandt This study explores one means of imparting Latin literacy in early medieval society: the so-called "external school," often presumed to have been a common feature monastic education. It questions prevalence this institution and whether external school can be u...
Carolingian Grammarians and Theoretical Innovation by Vivien Law None <eot>
EUROPE IN THE TURKISH MIRROR by M. E. Yapp Journal Article EUROPE IN THE TURKISH MIRROR Get access M. E. Yapp School of Oriental and African Studies, University London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 137, Issue 1, November 1992, Pages 134–155, https://do...
Integration and social reproduction in the Carolingian Empire by John Moreland|Robert Van de Noort Abstract Models which stress economic and political factors in empire‐building are limited their ability to explain the reproduction of these complex socio‐political phenomena; ideological and, more generally, social mu...
Carolingian Grammarians and Theoretical Innovation by Vivien Law None <eot>
A Dominican Saint for the Benedictines: Beccafumi's "Stigmatization of St. Catherine" by Barbara Pike Gordley None <eot>
The history of cereals in the region of the former Duchy of Swabia (Herzogtum Schwaben) from the Roman to the Post-medieval period: results of archaeobotanical research by Manfred Rösch|Stefanie Jacomet|Sabine Karg None <eot>
Southern Italy and the Normans before the creation of the monarchy by Donald Matthew None <eot>
Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe. by Frederick S. Paxton None <eot>
Holy Relic and Holy Image: Saints’ Relics in the western controversy over images in the eighth and ninth Centuries by David P. Appleby Abstract This article addresses one aspect of the controversy over use religious images in I taly and Francia later eighth ninth centuries. The point departure is my conviction that s...
Bernice M. Kaczynski. — Greek in the Carolingian Age. The St. Gall Manuscripts, 1988 (" Speculum Anniversary Monogr. ", 30) by Jean Irigoin None <eot>
Archbishop Wulfstan and the Homiletic Element in the Laws of Æthelred II and Cnut by M. K. Lawson Journal Article Archbishop Wulfstan and the Homiletic Element in Laws of Æthelred II Cnut Get access M. K. LAWSON St Paul's SchoolLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Englis...
Habitat et genèse villageoise du haut Moyen Age. Exemple d'un terroir du biterrois nord-oriental [L'exemple d'un terroir du Bitterois nord-oriental] by Laurent Schneider The extensive study of a communal local seulement the central Languedoc region, allows steps medieval village structuring to be evoked. future main ...
National identity and the idea of European unity by Anthony D. Smith Since the project of European integration began, at issue has always been whether a political identity could develop to underpin unification. Is genuine possible? Anthony Smith takes up question from standpoint his work on nationalism. Why is it tha...
From Athens to Chartres by None Iconography: Yves Christe and Pascale Fesquet. Codicology: Paul Edward Dutton, Lesley Smith, Mark Zier, Rosamond McKitterick, Michael Lapidge. Philosophy—Antiquity: Jean Pépin, John M. Rist, Henri Dominique Saffrey, OP. Philosophy—The Carolingian Age: J. O'Meara, Guy-H. Allard, Gangolf...
Figure, Character, and the Glorified Body in the Carolingian Eucharistic Controversy by Celia Chazelle While certain of the faithful say that in mystery body and blood Christ, daily celebrated church, nothing takes place under a figure, veil, but it is performed with naked manifestation truth itself, others bear witn...
North European Textiles until AD. 1000 by Lise Bender Jørgensen The thesis of this book is that the first steps towards an organized production textiles in Northern Europe was taken Hallstatt era (the last millenium BC). In time Roman Empire, it developed into a veritable industry. products industry have been found f...
Punishment, reward and the fortunes of states by Léonard Dudley None <eot>
Problems of Comparing Rural Societies in Early Medieval Western Europe by Chris Wickham There is surprisingly little early medieval social history being written. In recent years, more specifically economic has had a remarkable rebirth, thanks to the (largely unconnected) efforts of archaeologists on one side and Belg...
Alcuin's Ambiguous Attitude Towards the Classics by Gernot Wieland None <eot>
The Court in the Work of Art: Patronage and Poetic Autonomy in the <i>Orlando Furioso</i>, Canto 42 by Katherine Hoffman None <eot>
Carolingian renewal: sources and heritage by None Roman books and Carolingian renovatio imagines regum their significance in the early medieval West ethnic history Carolingians - an alternative reading of Paul Deacon's Historia Langobardorum aula renovata court before Aachen Palace Alcuin kingdom heaven liturgy, theo...
Sainted Women of the Dark Ages by Jo Ann McNamara|John E. Halborg|E. Gordon Whatley Sainted Women of the Dark Ages makes available lives eighteen Frankish women sixth and seventh centuries, all whom became saints. Written in Latin by contemporaries or near contemporaries, most translated here for first time, these bi...
Milestones in the Study of Priscian, circa 8OO-circa 1200 by Margaret Gibson "Milestones in the Study of Priscian, circa 800-circa 1200." Priscian's lnstitutiones grammaticae, much most detailed Latin grammar available to early medieval Europe, began replace Ars grammaticae Donatus about 800, and remained dominant un...
NATIONALISM, INTERNATIONALISM AND A 'SOCIALIST GEOPOLITICS' by None None <eot>
CONCEPTS OF EUROPE IN THE EARLY AND HIGH MIDDLE AGES by Karl Leyser None <eot>
A Tainted Mantle, Hercules and the Classical Tradition at the Carolingian Court by Dale Kinney|Lawrence Nees A Tainted Mantle focuses on two works of Carolingian literature and art, Theodulf Orleans' poem Contra Iudices, the ivory throne identified as Cathedra Petri (the Throne St Peter). Both feature pagan hero Herc...
An Irish Textual Critic and the Carmen paschale of Sedulius: Colmán's Letter to Feradach by Richard Sharpe None <eot>
THE AUTHOR PORTRAIT IN THIRTEENTH-CENTURYARABIC MANUSCRIPTS: A NEW ISLAMIC CONTEXT FOR A LATE-ANTIQUE TRADITION by Eva Hoffman None <eot>
Giotto and the Language of Gesture (Cambridge Studies in the History of Art) by Andrew Ladis|Moshe Barasch None <eot>
Carolingian learning, masters, and manuscripts by John J. Contreni Learning in the early Middle Ages education and learning - new perspectives old problems Carolingian renaissance inharmonious harmony world Biblical studies John Scottus, Martin Hiberniensis, liberal arts teaching Naimo of Auxerre, Abbot Sasceium (Ces...
Province and Empire by Julia M. H. Smith This book offers ideas about the processes of political and cultural change in early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between centre periphery Carolingian empire, particular development Brittany as a territorial principality ninth tenth centuries. A major theme inte...
Faith After Foundationalism. by Nicholas Wolterstorff|D. Z. Phillips Part 1: The Middle Ages 1. Early Influence of Nature on the Public Mind 2. Germanic Traditions 3. Christianity 4. Charlemagne's Political System 5. Fall Frankish Empire 6. Thought and Sentiment in Time Late Carolingians 7. Religious Revival, Cluny L...
Reflections on the Jewry Oath in the Middle Ages by Joseph Ziegler The Jewry Oath ( juramentum Judaeorum, Judeneid ) was the judicial oath demanded from Jews involved in legal litigation when summoned to appear a Christian court both as plaintiffs and defendants. special formulae which were created for Jews, who coul...
The Archaeology of Inequality. by Randall H. McGuire|Robert Paynter The archaeology of inequality - material culture, domination and resistance, Rober T.Paynter Randall H.McGuire struggling with pots in South Carolina, Leland Ferguson the continued pattern dominance landlord tenant on postbellum cotton plantation, Ch...
Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath. by Richard Kieckhefer|Carlo Ginzburg|Raymond Rosenthal For centuries witches on trial admitted to taking part in gruesome sabbaths where they cast spells, worshipped a bestial devil, enacted obscenely blasphemous rites and even devoured corpses. Many scholars believe that ...
The Susanna Crystal of Lothar II: Chastity, the Church, and Royal Justice by Genevra Kornbluth The meaning of the ninth-century Susanna Crystal has never been satisfactorily explained. Lauer's 1908 hypothesis connects gem with attempted divorce Lothar II. Carolingian polemic literature and commentaries on Daniel 13 s...
Handbook for William: a Carolingian woman's counsel for her son by None One of the few surviving texts written by a woman Middle Ages, Dhuoda's Libermanualis was available in only two faulty Latin manuscripts until third, superior one discovered 1950s. This English translation Carol Neel, based on 1975 critical editi...
On the ownership of land by E. M. Yates None <eot>
Dark Age Naval Power: A Reassessment of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Seafaring Activity by Steven A. Epstein|John Haywood Dark Age Naval Power offers a re-assessment of the evidence for Germanic seafaring before Viking Age. The book questions many pillars current archaeological orthodoxy - in particular, assumption that ...
Food for Rome: The Legal Structure of the Transportation and Processing of Supplies for the Imperial Distributions in Rome and Constantinople. by Bruce W. Frier|Boudewign Sirks None <eot>
Varieties of the Supernatural in Song by Hugh Shields None <eot>
Toward a Definition of Antisemitism. by William Chester Jordan|Gavin I. Langmuir None <eot>
Charles The Bald by Janet L. Nelson The Carolingian economy and the state context of politics 823-40 - youthful training 840-43 winning a kingdom 843-49 challenge response 850-58 competition crisis 859-69 prospects power 869-77 glittering prizes. Appendix: Missatica Missi listed at Servais, November 853. <eot>
Concerning the Cotton Genesis and Other Illustrated Manuscripts of Genesis by John Lowden This article seeks to open up discussion of the Cotton Genesis by questioning its use as a paradigm for narrative illustration in early period. The approach is not via usual iconographic connections, but through consideration ot...
The Frankish World, 750-900 by Janet L. Nelson In these essays Carolingian government is explored through the workings of courts and assemblies; administrative texts; contemporaries’ historical writing; rituals, looking back to Roman times reflecting long continuity administration in areas constituting Francia that s...
Archaeological glasses as modelling of the behavior of buried nuclear waste glass by Cécile Macquet|J M Thomassin To provide a comparison with the evolution of nuclear waste glasses in contact solutions percolating through soils and rocks before contact, archaeological glassy materials were studied emphasis on fine s...
Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 3. Dress Accessories c. 1150–1450. By Geoff Egan and Frances Pritchard. 250mm. Pp. xi + 410, many ills. London: HMSO, 1991. ISBN 0-11-290444-0. £39.95. by Janet Arnold Medieval Finds from Excavations in London: 3. Dress Accessories c. 1150–1450. By Geoff Egan and Frances Pri...
The Faith of Christians and Hostility to Jews by Gavin I. Langmuir There is a fundamental question that any historical analysis of the relations between Christianity and Judaism must face. What relation hostility Christians have directed at Jews their faith as Christians? It hard to answer for both conceptual evident...
Living in the tenth century: mentalities and social orders by None delivers a fascinating view of tenth-century Europe on the eve second millenium. He writes this hoping we, third millenium, will take time also to look at who we are and our world. . This engaging book lucidly carries reader through an amazing amount ...
The Anxiety of Sanctity: St Gerald of Aurillac and his Maker by Stuart Airlie Count Gerald of Aurillac (855–909) might seem rather out place in a gallery medieval saints: an aristocratic warrior, great lord, seemed very much man this world than saint ascetic withdrawal from it. This was also the initial opinion his b...
Restructuring Confirmation by Richard R. Osmer “Revivalism's erosion of the norms traditionally associated with Reformation commitment to catechetical instruction was a gradual process. … By end nineteenth century, Sunday School had become dominant form Christian education. Slowly but surely, confirmation has come be...
The Translations of the New Testament into Latin: The Old Latin and the Vulgate by J. K. Elliott|Wolfgang Haase None <eot>
Evidence for Flying Buttresses before 1180 by John M. James In the cathedral of Sens, Saint-Lomer in Blois, Voulton, and Saint-Remi Reims, stonework together with documents demonstrates explicitly that flying buttresses were built or intended before 1170. another ten buildings, including Senlis choir Notre-Dame Paris...
Patrons and Minders: the Intrusion of the Secular into Sacred Spaces in the Late Middle Ages by Andrew Martindale From the twelfth century onwards it became common for sacred spaces—that is, churches—to be invaded by objects and imagery which are often surprising bizarre which, in their secular-ity, have little to do...
The Debate Concerning Latin and Early Romance by Kees Versteegh None <eot>
Province and empire: Brittany and the Carolingians by None This book offers ideas about the processes of political and cultural change in early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between centre periphery Carolingian empire, particular development Brittany as a territorial principality ninth tenth centuries. ...
Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America by Barbara Johnstone None <eot>
The Eighth-Century Frankish-Roman Communion Cycle by James W. McKinnon Musical and liturgical historians alike are familiar with the numerical series of weekday communions derived from Psalms 1-26. What is less well known that communion texts for entire temporale reveal similar compositional patterns. The cycle begin...
Christianizing Death. The creation of a ritual process in early medieval Europe. By Frederick S. Paxton. Pp. xiv+229 incl. frontispiece. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 1990. $31.50. 0 8014 2492 5 by Rosamond McKitterick Christianizing Death. The creation of a ritual process in early medieval Europe. By Fred...
Spenser's Icon of the Past: Fiction as History, a Reexamination by John M. Steadman Spenser's image of the past is (as critics have long recognized) complex, and sometimes self-contradictory, construct. As Thomas M. Greene points out, uses word antique in many different senses, so that meaning phrase world not always...
The Distancing of God: The Ambiguity of Symbol in History and Theology; By Bernard J. Cooke Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1990. viii + 381 pp. $24.95 by Catherine Mowry LaCugna None <eot>
Christianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe. Frederick S. Paxton by Celia Chazelle Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsChristianizing Death: The Creation of a Ritual Process in Early Medieval Europe. Frederick S. Paxton Celia M. ChazelleCelia Chazelle Search for more ...
Review--D. A. Bullough, Carolingian renewal: sources and heritage by Bernard S. Bachrach None <eot>
<sc>Georges Duby</sc> and <sc>Michelle Perrot</sc>, editors. <italic>Histoire des femmes en occident</italic>. Volume 2, <italic>Le Moyen Age</italic>. Edited by <sc>Christiane Klapisch-Zuber</sc>. Paris: Plon. 1991. Pp. 567 by Caroline Walker Bynum None <eot>
<sc>Michele Renee Salzman</sc>. <italic>On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity</italic>. (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, number 17.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1990. Pp. xxii, 315. $65.00 by David Potter Michele Renee Salz...
<sc>Sharon Farmer</sc>. <italic>Communities of Saint Martin: Legend and Ritual in Medieval Tours</italic>. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1991. Pp. xii, 358. $43.50 by Thomas F. X. Noble None <eot>
Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500.L. P. Harvey by Kenneth Baxter Wolf Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsIslamic Spain, 1250 to 1500. L. P. HarveyKenneth BaxterKenneth Baxter Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitte...
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<sc>Paul Freedman</sc>. <italic>The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia</italic>. (Cambridge Iberian and Latin American Studies.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1991. Pp. xvii, 263. $49.50 by None Journal Article Paul Freedman. The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia. (Cambridge I...
On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity. by David M. Potter|Michele Renee Salzman None <eot>
Kingship, Law, and Society: Criminal Justice in the Reign of Henry V.Edward Powell by None None <eot>
Middle English Debate Poetry and the Aesthetics of Irresolution.Thomas L. Reed, Jr. by None Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsMiddle English Debate Poetry and the Aesthetics of Irresolution. Thomas L. Reed, Jr.Thomas H. BestulThomas Bestul Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favorite...
The Carolingians and the Written Word.Rosamond McKitterickThe Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe.Rosamond McKitterick by None Previous articleNext article No AccessReviews Rosamond McKitterick The Carolingians and the Written Word. Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe. McKitterickRoger E. ReynoldsRoger ...
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<sc>Pierre Bonnassie</sc>. <italic>From Slavery to Feudalism in Southwestern Europe</italic>. Translated by <sc>Jean Birrell</sc>. (Past and Present Publications.) New York: Cambridge University Press or La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris. 1991. Pp. xi, 352. $64.50 by None None <eot>
Shorter Notices by JUDITH MCLURE None <eot>
Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance.David Ganz by John J. Contreni None <eot>
REVIEWS OF BOOKS by John Caldwell Journal Article REVIEWS OF BOOKS Get access Feste und Feiern in Mittelalter: Paderborner Symposion des Mediävistenverbandes. Ed. by Detlef Altenburg, Jõrg Jarnurt & Hans-Hugo Steinhoff. pp. 552. (Thorbecke, Sigmaringen, 1991, DM. 128. ISBN 3-7995-5402-5.) JOHN CALDWELL Search for oth...
Medioevo Lation: Bollettino Bibliografico Della Cultura Europea dal Secolo VI al XIII, 1-12.Claudio Leonardi, Rino Avesani, Ferruccio Bertini, Giuseppe Cremanscoli, Giovanni Orlandi, Giuseppe Scalia by None Previous articleNext article No AccessReviewsMedioevo Lation: Bollettino Bibliografico Della Cultura Europea da...
Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra by Alfred W. Cochran|Donald Martino|Charles Wuorinen None <eot>
Thomas Forest Kelly, The Beneventan Chant. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. xvi + 350 pp. by James W. McKinnon None <eot>
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