Early Medieval Europe

Papers
(The TQCC of Early Medieval Europe is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
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Gilds, states and societies in the early Middle Ages5
792 or 793? Charlemagne’s canal project: craft, nature and memory5
Incense in medicine: an early medieval perspective4
Creating a ‘temple society’ in the early medieval west3
Lights, power and the moral economy of early medieval Europe3
Home thoughts of abroad: Ohthere’s Voyage in its Anglo‐Saxon context3
The remains of the saints: the evidence of early medieval relic collections3
The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries: reaching behind the sources2
Æthelstan, Wulfstan and a revised history of tithes in England2
Nemo militans Deo implicat se saecularia negotia: Carolingian interpretations of II Timothy II.42
The Carolingian local ecclesia as a ‘temple society’?2
Wartime rape in late antiquity: consecrated virgins and victim bias in the fifth‐century west2
Seeing the churches like the state: taxes and wealth redistribution in late antique Italy1
L'archeologia della produzione a Roma (secoli V–XV) Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi Roma 27–29 marzo 2014. Edited by AlessandraMolinari, Riccardo SantangeliValenz1
Alfredian military reform: the materialization of ideology and the social practice of garrisoning1
The Construction of Ottonian Kingship: Narratives and Myth in Tenth‐Century Germany. By AntoniGrabowski. Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam. 2018. 294 pp. €105. ISBN 978 94 6298 723 4 (hardback).1
Spiritual Direction as a Medical Art in Early Christian Monasticism. By JonathanZecher. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. 400 pp. £75. ISBN 9 78 019885413 5.1
The Royal Prayerbook’s blood‐staunching charms and early Insular scribal communities1
Law‐books, concomitant texts and ethnically framed legal pluralism on the fringes of post‐Carolingian Europe: northern Italy and Catalonia around 10001
Guthlac at Medeshamstede?1
Monastic archives and the law: legal strategies at Farfa and Monte Amiata at the turn of the millennium1
An authority among authorities: knowledge and use of Augustine in the wider Carolingian world1
Genealogy and royal women in Asser’s Life of King Alfred: politics, prestige, and maternal kinship in early medieval England1
Balance of power across the Channel: reassessing Frankish hegemony in southern England (sixth–early seventh century)1
A secular shift in Carolingian history writing?1
In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries1
The early medieval secular: spectrum and strategies1
The importance of coinage in the Carolingian world1
Olives and lighting in Dark Age Europe11
After Augustine, after Markus: the problem of the secular at the end of antiquity1
Through the eyes of a deacon: lesser clergy, major donors, and institutional property in fifth‐century Rome1
Pope Leo of Bourges, clerical immunity and the early medieval secular1
‘The king and the bishops have much to offer’: episcopal appointments and the legitimacy conflict over the archiepiscopal see of Reims (989‐99)1
Agricultural brokers1
Neue Wege der Frühmittelalterforschung – Bilanz und Perspektiven. Edited by WalterPohl, MaximilianDiesenberger and BernhardZeller. Forschungen zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 22. Vienna: Verlag der Ös1
Gregory’s forgotten rebel: the portrayal of Basina by Gregory of Tours and its implications1
Governance, locality and legal culture: the rise and fall of the Carolingian advocates of Saint‐Martin of Tours1
Three Welsh kings and Rome: royal pilgrimage, overlordship, and Anglo‐Welsh relations in the early Middle Ages1
‘Because their patron never dies’: ecclesiastical freedmen, socio‐religious interaction, and group formation under the aegis of ‘church property’ in the early medieval west (sixth to eleventh centurie1
The building projects and the Histories of Gregory of Tours1
Wives, concubines, or slaves? Peter Damian and clerics’ women1
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Atmospheric architecture: Gregory of Tours’s use of the fear of God in Tours Cathedral and the Basilica of St Martin1
Qualifying Mediterranean connectivity: Byzantium and the Franks during the seventh century0
Why the Turks? On the etymological method in Fredegar's account of the Trojan Franks0
The Pursuit of Salvation: Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism. With a Critical Edition and Translation of the Regula cuiusdam ad uirgines. By AlbrechtDiem. Disciplina0
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Saints’ mobility and confinement: deconstructing Byzantine stories of (fe)male ascetics and monastics0
Bishops in Flight. Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity. By JenniferBarry. Oakland: University of California Press. 2019. 200 pp. $34.95, £29 (paperback). ISBN 9780520300378. [A free ebook version0
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Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony: Writing and Rewriting the Past at Gandersheim and Quedlinburg. By SarahGreer. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. 206 pp. £75. ISBN 9780198850137.0
The Anglo‐Saxon Fenland. By SusanOosthuizen. Oxford and Havertown, PA: Windgather Press. 2017. xx + 156 pp. + 55 illus. + 31 b/w and 24 colour plates. £29.95. ISBN 9781 911188 08 7 (paperback);0
Saint Patrick Retold: The Legend and History of Ireland’s Patron Saint. By RoyFlechner. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2019. xi + 277 pp. £22. ISBN 978 0 691 18464 7.0
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 fig0
Ravenna. Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. By JudithHerrin. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 2020. xxxvii + 537 pp. $29.95/ £25.76. ISBN 978 0691153438.Rome, Ravenna, and Venice,0
Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300–600 c.e. By DamiánFernández. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylviania Press. 2017. 328pp. £58. ISBN 9780812249460.0
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Sinnstiftungen eines Rechtsbuchs. Die Lex Salica im Frankenreich. By KarlUbl. Quellen und Forschungen zum Recht im Mittelalter 9. Ostfildern: Thorbecke Verlag. 2017. 316 pp. €39. ISBN 978 3 7995 6089 0
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Landholding in the Loire valley and the late Carolingian economy (c.840–c.1000)0
Old English Legal Writings: Wulfstan. Edited and translated by Andrew Rabin. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2020. xxxix + 439 pp. ISBN 9780674247482.0
Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History. By JamesCorke‐Webster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. xvii + 346 pp. £90. ISBN 978 1 108 47407 8.0
Beyond the Reconquista. New directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711–1085). Edited by SimonBarton† and RobertPortass. Leiden: Brill. 2020. xii + 289 pp. €99. ISBN 978 90 04 0
Le Légendier de Moissac et la culture hagiographique méridionale autour de l’an mil. Ed. by FernandPeloux. Hagiologia. Etudes sur la sainteté et l’hagiographie – Studies on Sanctity and Hagiogr0
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Understanding Religious Change in Africa and Europe: Crossing Latitudes. The Christianization of Jukun of Nigeria and Celtic Irish in Early Medieval Europe. By Nathan IrmiyaElawa. Cham: Springer. 20200
L’empreinte chrétienne en Gaule du IVe au IXe siècle. Edited by MichèleGaillard. Turnhout: Brepols. 2014. 551 pp. ISBN 9782503550442.0
The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant0
Regino of Prüm: Two Books on Synodal Causes and Ecclesiastical Disciplines. Translated with an Introduction by Giulio Silano. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. 2021. 366 pp. $35. ISB0
Attone di Vercelli, Polipticum quod appellatur Perpendiculum. Critical edition, translation, and commentary by Giacomo Vignodelli with a study of the author’s compositional technique by Luigi G.G. Ric0
The Migration Period between the Oder and the Vistula. Edited by AleksanderBursche, JohnHines and AnnaZapolska. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages 450–1450, 59. Leiden: Brill. 2020. 2 0
Introduction Mobility and migration in the early medieval Mediterranean0
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The Last Great War of Antiquity. By JamesHoward‐Johnston. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2021. xix + 446 pp. + 9 maps + 32 figures. £35. ISBN 978 0 19 883019 1.0
From Rome to Ripoll, Rioja, and beyond: the Iberian transmission of the Latin Tiburtine Sibyl and Oliba of Ripoll and Vic’s Europe‐wide network of knowledge transfer and learning0
Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia: Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space. By Marianne HemEriksen. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 2019. 275 pp. ISBN 978 11 08 49722 0.0
Songs of Sacrifice: Chant, Identity, and Christian Formation in Early Medieval Iberia. By RebeccaMaloy. AMS Studies in Music. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2020. x + 331 pp + 10 online0
Lyon dans l’Europe Carolingienne: Autour d’Agobard (816–840). Edited by FrançoisBougard, AlexisCharansonnet and Marie‐CélineIsaïa. Collection Haut Moyen Âge 36. Turnhout: Brepols. 2019. 382 pp., 21 b/0
The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World. Edited by BonnieEffros and IsabelMoreira. Oxford: Oxford University Press.2020. xxii + 1141 pp., 35 maps/figures. £125. ISBN 9780190234188.0
Barbari e pagani. Religione e società in Europa nel tardoantico. By Giovanni AlbertoCecconi. Bari and Rome: Laterza. 2022. xxii + 268 pp. €24. ISBN 978 88 58146 68 2.0
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The Manuscripts of Leo the Great’s Letters. The Transmission and Reception of Papal Documents in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. By Matthew J.J.Hoskin. Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia 83. Tu0
Building Anglo‐Saxon England. By JohnBlair. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2018. xxiv + 471 pp. + 152 illus. £40. ISBN 9780691 162980.0
Marwān Ibn Janāḥ: On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs (Kitāb al‐Talkīṣ). Edition, Translation and Commentary with Special Reference to the Ibero‐Romance Terminology. Edited by GerritBos, Fab0
The Homiliary of Paul the Deacon: Religious and Cultural Reform in Carolingian Europe. By ZacharyGuiliano. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers. 2021. 341 pp. $117. ISBN 9782503577913.0
Teaching monastic masculinity with the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham0
Décrire le manuscrit liturgique. Méthodes, problématiques, perspectives. Edited by LauraAlbiero and EleonoraCelora. Turnhout: Brepols. 2021. 416 pp. €85 (hardback); €85 (ebook). ISBN 978 2 503 59502 30
Cultural Encounters on Byzantium’s Northern Frontier, c. 500–700: Coins, Artifacts and History. By AndreiGandila. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018. xix + 376 pp. £ 90. ISBN 9781108666374.0
Social Control in Late Antiquity: The Violence of Small Worlds. Edited by KateCooper and JamieWood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2020. XIII + 380 pp. £90. ISBN 978 1 108 47939 4.0
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Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: The Invention of Musical Notation. By Susan Rankin. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 2018. xxiii + 404 pp. £90 (hardback). ISBN 9781108421409.0
The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne. By SamOttewill‐Soulsby. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2023. xviii + 363 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978 0 691 22796 2.0
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. La0
Embodying the Soul: Medicine and Religion in Carolingian Europe. By MegLeja. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2022. viii + 378 pp. $89.95. ISBN 9780812253894.0
Changing queenships in tenth‐century England: rhetoric and (self‐)representation in the case of Eadgifu of Kent at Cooling0
Monarchs and Hydrarchs: The Conceptual Development of Viking Activity across the Frankish Realm (c. 750–940). By ChristianCooijmans. London: Routledge. 2020. 292 pp. £120 (hardback); £33.29 (eBook). I0
The Myth of Pelagianism. By AliBonner. British Academy Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. 360 pp. £80. ISBN 9780197266397.0
The alleged preaching ban in southern Gaul, 431–529: a reassessment of the arguments and evidence0
Migranten und Stadtgeselleschaft im frühmittelalterlichen Rom. Griechische Einwanderer und ihre Nachkommen im diachronen Vergleich. By PhilippWinterhager. Europa im Mittelalter 35. Berlin and Boston: 0
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: Brepols0
Royal Power in the Late Carolingian Age: Charles III the Simple and His Predecessors. By HorstLösslein. Cologne: Modern Academic Publishing, 2019. 404 pp. ISBN 978 3 946198 48 2 (hardback); 978 3 94610
Conflict and Violence in Medieval Italy 568–1154. Edited by ChristopherHeath and RobertHoughton. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2021. 344 pp. €115. ISBN 9 789 46298517 9.0
After the Carolingians. Re‐defining Manuscript Illumination in the 10th and 11th Centuries. Edited by BeatriceKitzinger and JoshuaO’Driscoll. Sense, Matter, and Medium 2. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter0
The Fragmentary Latin Histories of Late Antiquity (ad 300–620): Edition, Translation and Commentary. By LieveVan Hoof and PeterVan Nuffelen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2020. x +0
Ut primatum habeant: the early medieval church in Dalmatia and the Aquileian strategy0
Forgery and Memory at the End of the First Millennium. By LeviRoach. Princeton University Press: Princeton and Oxford. 2021. 360 pp. £35. ISBN 9780691181660.0
The Foundations of Royal Power in Early Medieval Germany. By David S.Bachrach. Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press. 2022. xviii + 384 pp. £75. ISBN 9781800106338.0
Barbarians and Jews: Jews and Judaism in the Early Medieval West. Edited by YitzhakHen and Thomas F.X.Noble. DIASPORA: New Perspectives on Jewish History and Cultures. Turnhout: Brepols. 2018. xi + 340
A coin of Queen Fastrada and Charlemagne0
Eternal Light and Earthly Concerns: Belief and the Shaping of Medieval Society. By PaulFouracre. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2021. ix + 248 pp. £80. ISBN 1 784993 01 6.0
Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities. Edited by WalterPohl, ClemensGantner, CinziaGrifoni and MariannePollheimer‐Mohaupt. Millennium Studies 71. Berlin: De Gruyter. 20180
The De Thematibus (‘on the themes’) of Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus. Translated with Introductory Chapters and Notes. By JohnHaldon. Translated Texts for Byzantinists 11. Liverpool, Liverpool Unive0
Quasi in domo propria sub securitate sanaretur: a peace agreement between King Swein Forkbeard and Duke Richard II of Normandy0
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Iconophilia. Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, c. 680–880. By FrancescaDell’Acqua. Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Studies. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 2020. xxvii +0
Kingship, Society, and the Church in Anglo‐Saxon Yorkshire. By ThomasPickles. Medieval History and Archaeology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2018. xxiii + 386 pp. £85. ISBN 978 0 19 80
Crucible of Nations: Scotland from Viking Age to Medieval Kingdom. By AdriánMaldonado. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland Enterprises. 2021. xvi + 240 pp. £25. ISBN 978 1 910682 43 2.0
The fall of Merovingian Italy, 561–50
Settlements and Strongholds in Early Medieval England: Texts, Landscapes, and Material Culture. By Michael D.J.Bintley. Studies in the Early Middle Ages 45. Turnhout: Brepols. 2020. 231 pp. €80. ISBN 0
Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom: The Golden Age and the Viking Age. By FionaEdmonds. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. 2019. xvii + 300 pp. + 4 b/w illustrations, 12 maps and 7 tables. IS0
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The Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869–70. Translated by Richard Price with an introduction and notes by Federico Montinaro. Translated Texts for Historians 79. Liverpool: Liverpool Universi0
Index of reviews for Volume 280
Außenseiter und ‘Insider’: Kommunikation und Historiographie im Umfeld des ottonischen Herrscherhofes. By AnastasiaBrakhman. Historische Studien 509. Husum, Matthiesen Verlag. 2016. 292 pp. €49. ISBN 0
Venantius Fortunatus and Gallic Christianity: Theology in the Writings of an Italian Émigré in Merovingian Gaul. By BenjaminWheaton. Leiden: Brill. 2022. 1 + 293 pp. €109. ISBN 9789004521940.0
Les ports des mers nordiques à l’époque viking (VIIe–Xe siècle). By LucieMalbos. Collection Haut Moyen Âge 27. Turnhout: Brepols. 2017. 453 pp. + 31 b/w illustrations, 5 b/w tables. €85. ISBN 978 2 500
Angles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric. By JosephGrossi. Toronto: Toronto University Press. 2021. xiv + 385 pp. $85; £56.99. ISBN 978 1 4875 0573 8.0
Daily Life in Late Antiquity. By KristinaSessa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018. x + 250 pp. £ 21.99. ISBN 9780521148405.0
Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam: Perspectives on Umayyad Elites. Edited by AlainGeorge and AndrewMarsham. New York: Oxford University Press. 2018. £79 (hardback). ISBN 978 0 19 04980
Medicine at Monte Cassino: Constantine the African and the Oldest Manuscript of his Pantegni. By ErikKwakkel and FrancisNewton, with a preface by Eliza Glaze. Speculum Sanitatis: Studies in Med0
Hagiography, Historiography, and Identity in Sixth‐Century Gaul: Rethinking Gregory of Tours. By TamarRotman. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam. 2022. 195 pp. £81. ISBN 978 94 6372 773 0.0
Wilfrid’s network bishopric and the primacy of York: writing episcopacy in Stephen’s Life of Wilfrid0
The Charisma of Distant Places. Travel and Religion in the Early Middle Ages. By CourtneyLuckhardt. Studies in Medieval History and Culture. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 2020. xii + 236 pp. £115.0
The art of the biblical prologue in medieval Catalonia: visual connections and interpretation in the Ripoll Bibles0
Priests and their Books in Late Anglo‐Saxon England. By Gerald P.Dyson. Anglo‐Saxon Studies 34. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2019. x + 283 pp; 9 b/w plates + 5 tables. £ 60. ISBN 978 1 78327 366 9.0
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Politics and Government in Byzantium: The Rise and Fall of the Bureaucrats. By JonathanShea. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. 2020. xiii + 254. £90 (hardback). ISBN 978 0 7556 0193 6 (hardback).0
Du royaume goth au Midi mérovingien. Actes des XXXIVe Journées d’Archéologie Mérovingienne de Toulouse, 6, 7 et 8 Novembre 2013. Edited by EmmanuelleBoube, AlexisCorrochano and JérômeHernandez. Mémoir0
Southern Italy as Contact Area and Border Region during the Early Middle Ages: Religious‐Cultural Heterogeneity and Competing Powers in Local, Transregional and Universal Dimensions. Edited by Kordula0
Couples et conjugalité au haut Moyen Âge (VIe–XIIe siècles). By EmanuelleSantinelli‐Foltz. Collection haut Moyen Âge 43. Turnhout: Brepols. 2022. 411 pp. €95. ISBN 9782503595030 (paperback); 9782503590
Hinkmar von Reims, De iure metropolitanorum. Studien und Edition. By MatthiasSchrör. Libelli Rhenani 80. Cologne: Erzbischöfliche Dom‐ und Diözesanbibliothek. 2020. 162 pp.; 1 b/w and 7 colour figures0
Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West. By JamieKreiner. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2020. xi + 340 pp., 48 b/w + 32 colour illus. $40. ISBN 9780300246292.0
Mobility in seventh‐century Byzantium: analysing Emperor Heraclius’ political ideology and propaganda0
Languages of the Law in Early Medieval England: Essays in Memory of Lisi Oliver. Edited by StefanJurasinski and AndrewRabin. Leuven, Paris and Bristol, CT: Peeters. 2019. xxviii + 303 pp. ISBN 978 90 0
Review article: Small futures. sortilege, divination and prognostication in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages0
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began. By ValerieHansen. [s.l.]: Viking. 320 pp. £20. ISBN 024135126X.0
Sagax animo: Jonas of Bobbio and the verse epitaph of Pope Honorius0
The Viking Great Army and the Making of England. By Dawn M.Hadley and Julian D.Richards. London: Thames & Hudson. 2020. 320 pp. £25. ISBN 9780500022016.0
Making and Unmaking the Carolingians, 751‐888. By StuartAirlie. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 2020. xx + 435 pp. £85. ISBN 978 1 7883 1744 3.0
Heirs of the Vikings. History and Identity in Normandy and England, c. 905–c. 1015. By KatherineCross. Woodbridge and Rochester: York Medieval Press in assocation with The Boydell Press. 2018. xiv + 20
The Spirituality of Countess Matilda of Tuscany. By PenelopeNash. Bologna: Pàtron editore. 2021. 109 pp. €16. ISBN 9788855535298, 8855535293.0
Spelling correctness as a witness of changing documentary culture in Tuscia (eighth–ninth centuries)0
Prosopographie der Missionare im karolingischen Sachsen (ca. 750–850). By Andreas M.Mehdorn. Monumenta Germaniae Historica – Hilfsmittel 32. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 2021. lxxx + 404 pp. €80 (h0
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Les Livres des Rois dans l’empire carolingien: Exégèse et actualité. By CarolineChevalier‐Royet. Paris: Classiques Garnier. 2021. 602 pp. €59. ISBN 978 2 406 10814 6. ISSN 2107 1853.0
The West Saxon boundary clause in context: Celtic and Continental connections0
Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire: Ideals and Expectations during the Reign of Louis the Pious (813–828). By RutgerKramer. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2019. 277 pp. €105. ISBN 0
Bishop Æthelwold, his Followers, and Saints’ Cults in Early Medieval England: Power, Belief, and Religious Reform. By AlisonHudson. Anglo‐Saxon Studies 43. Woodbridge and Rochester: Boydell Press. 2020
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Brittany and the Atlantic Archipelago, 450–1200: Contact, Myth and History. By CarolineBrett, with FionaEdmonds and PaulRussell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. xvi + 479 pp. £90. ISBN 970
Rome in the Eighth Century. A History in Art. By John Osborne. British School at Rome Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2020. xx + 291 pp. £75 (hardback). ISBN 978 1 108 83458 2.0
Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800–1050. By StevenVanderputten. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press. 2018. xiii + 309 pp.; 11 b/w figures, 3 maps. $110
Baduila: Politics and Warfare at the End of Ostrogothic Italy. By MarcoCristini. Istituzioni e società27. Spoleto: Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo. 2022. xii + 280 pp. €30. ISBN0
Bede, Æthelberht, and the ‘examples of the Romans’ in early medieval England0
Glossographie der Regula Benedicti. Das Korpus der lateinischen RB‐Glossierungen (KORB). By ManfredRaupach, with the assistance of Ekkehard Zöfgen. Regula Benedicti Studia 26. Sankt Ottilien: EOS. 2020
Traversing the Inner Seas: Contacts and Continuity in and around Scotland, the Hebrides, and the North of Ireland. Edited by ChristianCooijmans. Edinburgh: The Scottish Society for Northern Studies. 20
The Eulogius Corpus. By Kenneth BaxterWolf. Translated Texts for Historians 71. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2019. xxii + 412 pp. £35 (paperback). ISBN 978 1 789 62121 1.0
Bede and Time: Computus, Theology and History in the Early Medieval World. By MáirínMacCarron. Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland. London: Routledge. 2019. xxii + 210 pp. ISBN 978 1 4724 760
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Neighbours and Strangers: Local Societies in Early Medieval Europe. By BernhardZeller, CharlesWest, FrancescaTinti, MarcoStoffella, NicolasSchroeder, CarinevanRhijn, SteffenPatzold, ThomasKohl, WendyD0
The Iberian Peninsula between 300 and 850: An Archaeological Perspective. By Javier MartínezJiménez, Isaac SastredeDiego and Carlos TejerizoGarcía. Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia. Amsterdam: A0
Bede’s Latin Poetry. Edited and translated by Michael Lapidge. Oxford Medieval Texts. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. 2019. xvi + 605 pp. £95. ISBN 978 0 19 924277 1.0
Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, ad 750–900. By PaoloSquatriti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2022. xi + 224 pp. + 1 b/w and 11 colour fi0
Death and the Afterlife in the Pages of Gregory of Tours. By Allen E.Jones. Religion and Society in Late Antique Gaul. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2020. 324 pp. €109. ISBN 978 94 6298 804 00
Rome and the Invention of the Papacy: The Liber Pontificalis. By RosamondMcKitterick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2020. xvii + 271pp. $39.99. ISBN 9781 108 83682 1.0
The Politics of Sanctity: Figurative Sculpture at Selles‐sur‐Cher. By DeborahKahn. VISTAS: New Scholarship on Sculpture. London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. 2020. 272 pp. + 6 b/w and 10 col0
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Epitaph for an Era: Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World. By MaykedeJong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. xxii + 284 pp. ISBN 9781107014312.0
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Naturereignisse im frühen Mittelalter: Das Zeugnis der Geschichtsschreibung vom 6. bis 11. Jahrhundert. By ThomasWozniak. Europa im Mittelalter 31. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter. 2020. xxiii + 970 pp.0
The Languages of Early Medieval Charters: Latin, Germanic Vernaculars, and the Written Word. Edited by RobertGallagher, EdwardRoberts and FrancescaTinti. Brill’s Series on the Early Middle Ages 27. Le0
Social Inequality in Early Medieval Europe: Local Societies and Beyond. Edited by Juan Antonio QuirósCastillo. Collection Haut Moyen Âge 39. Turnhout: Brepols. 2020. 360 pp. + 97 b/w figures. €80. ISB0
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Citadel of the Saxons. The Rise of Early London. By RoryNaismith. London: I.B. Tauris. 2019. 288 pages. 28 figures; 5 maps. £20. ISBN 9781788312226.The Imperial City of Cologne. From Roman Colony to M0
The ‘Abbasid and Carolingian Empires: Comparative Studies in Civilizational Formation. Edited by D.G.Tor. Islamic History and Civilization 150. Leiden: Brill. 2017. x + 231 pp. €119. ISBN 978 90
The Divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga. Hincmar of Rheims’s De Divortio. Translated and annotated by RachelStone and CharlesWest. Manchester Medieval Sources. Manchester: Manchester Un0
English Coronation Ordines in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Edited by DavidPratt. Henry Bradshaw Society 125. London: The Boydell Press for the Henry Bradshaw Society. 2023. xviii+245 pp. £60.0
Silver, Butter, Cloth: Monetary and Social Economies in the Viking Age. Edited by JaneKershaw and GarethWilliams. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019. xvi + 306 pp. £75. ISBN 978 0 19 882798.0
A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity. Edited by JosefLössl and Nicholas J.Baker‐Brian. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley‐Blackwell. 2018. lxi + 655 pp. ISBN 978 1 118 96810 9.0
Mapping Death: Burial in Late Iron Age and Early Medieval Ireland. By ElizabethO’Brien. Dublin, Four Courts Press. xiv + 289 pp. with 74 figures, 25 colour plates, 8 maps. €55. ISBN 978 1 84682 859 1 0
After Alfred: Anglo‐Saxon Chronicles and Chroniclers, 900–1150. By PaulineStafford. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2020. xvii + 376 pp. £75. ISBN 978 0 19 885964 2.0
East and West in the Middle Ages: The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective. Edited by StefanEsders, YanivFox, YitzhakHen and LaurySarti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. xvi +0
Trial witnesses, social hierarchies, and state building in the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo0
King Arthur: The Making of the Legend. By Nicholas J.Higham. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 2018. xii + 380 pp; 32 colour plates; 7 b/w maps. US $32.50; £25 (hardback). ISBN 978 0 300 210
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The Destruction and Recovery of Monte Cassino, 529–1964. By Kriston R.Rennie. Italy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2021. 246 pp. + 16 b/w ill. €1060
City of Saints. Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages. By MayaMaskarinec. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2018. x + 290 pp. $55. ISBN 978 0 812 25008 4.0
The Cartulary‐Chronicle of St‐Pierre of Bèze. Edited by Constance BrittainBouchard. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2019. 448 pp. $82.70. ISBN 9781487506155.0
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Römisches Recht im Karolingerreich. Studien zur Überlieferungs‐ und Rezeptionsgeschichte der Epitome Aegidii. By DominikTrump. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag. 2021. 340 pp. €43. ISBN 978 3 790
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Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe. By HansHummer. Oxford Studies in Medieval European History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. 380 pp. £69. ISBN 9780198797609.0
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Cassiodorus' Variae: A Complete and Annotated Translation. By M. ShaneBjornlie. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2019. 530 pp. £103. ISBN 9 78052029736 4.0
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Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story?0
Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety in the Eleventh‐Century Monastery of John of Fécamp. By LaurenMancia. Artes Liberales. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 2018. xx + 267 pp. £80. ISBN 978 0
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The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome. By Nicola DenzeyLewis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2020. xviii + 426 pp. ISBN 978 1 108 47189 3.0
Gerhard von Augsburg: Vita Sancti Uodalrici Die älteste Lebensbeschreibung des heiligen Ulrich. Lateinisch‐Deutsch mit Kanonisationsurkunde von 993. Edited and translated (into German) by WalterBersch0
The lost Missal of Alcuin and the Carolingian sacramentaries of Tours0
Western Europe in the age of Abbot‐Bishop Oliba: persistence and transformation after the Carolingians0
Gelasius and the Ostrogoths: jurisdiction and religious community in late fifth‐century Italy0
Human–animal entanglements in the early medieval European slave trade: re‐reading the Raffelstetten customs regulations0
Papal Jurisprudence c. 400: Sources of the Canon Law Tradition. By David L.d’Avray. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. 302 pp. £75. ISBN 9781108472937.Papal Jurisprudence, 385–1234: Social O0
Les Royaumes de Bourgogne jusqu'en 1032 à travers la culture et la religion (Besançon, 2–4 octobre 2014). Edited by AnneWagner and NicoleBrocard. Culture et société médiévales 30. Turnhout: Bre0
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A Companion to Boniface. Edited by MichelAaij and ShannonGodlove. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 92. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2020. xviii + 562 pp. + 1 b/w ill. + 16 colour ill. €239; 0
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Roma all’inizio del Medioevo. Storie, luoghi, persone (secoli VI–IX). By PaoloDelogu. Rome: Carocci editore. 2022. 427 pp. + 9 b/w figs. €44. ISBN 978 88 290 1696 9 (paperback).0
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Compelling God: Theories of Prayer in Anglo‐Saxon England. By StephanieClark. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2018. x + 326 pp. $85 (hardback and Ebook). ISBN 9781487501983.0
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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 5.0
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The Legacy of Gildas. Constructions of Authority in the Early Medieval West. By StephenJoyce. Studies in Celtic History 43. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2022. ix + 190 pp. £70. ISBN 978 1 7830
The Chronology and Canon of Ælfric of Eynsham. By Aaron J.Kleist. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. 2019. xxii + 347 pp. £75. ISBN 9781843845331 (hardback); ISBN 9781787445383 (e‐book).0
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Archbishop Wulfstan’s criticism of King Edgar in the Anglo‐Saxon Chronicle0
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Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus. By SeanGriffin. Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. x + 275 pp. £75. ISBN 978 1 107 15676 0.0
The Rhetoric of Free Speech in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. By IrenevanRenswoude. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. 279 pp. £75 0
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