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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)
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Gilds, states and societies in the early Middle Ages5
Creating a ‘temple society’ in the early medieval west3
Seeing the churches like the state: taxes and wealth redistribution in late antique Italy3
De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain3
Nemo militans Deo implicat se saecularia negotia: Carolingian interpretations of II Timothy II.42
The lost Missal of Alcuin and the Carolingian sacramentaries of Tours2
Wartime rape in late antiquity: consecrated virgins and victim bias in the fifth‐century west2
The Carolingian local ecclesia as a ‘temple society’?2
Æthelstan, Wulfstan and a revised history of tithes in England2
The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries: reaching behind the sources2
The Royal Prayerbook’s blood‐staunching charms and early Insular scribal communities1
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
Guthlac at Medeshamstede?1
Pope Leo of Bourges, clerical immunity and the early medieval secular1
Genealogy and royal women in Asser’s Life of King Alfred: politics, prestige, and maternal kinship in early medieval England1
Neue Wege der Frühmittelalterforschung – Bilanz und Perspektiven. Edited by WalterPohl, MaximilianDiesenberger and BernhardZeller. Forschungen zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 22. Vienna: Verlag der Ös1
Three Welsh kings and Rome: royal pilgrimage, overlordship, and Anglo‐Welsh relations in the early Middle Ages1
Governance, locality and legal culture: the rise and fall of the Carolingian advocates of Saint‐Martin of Tours1
The importance of coinage in the Carolingian world1
The building projects and the Histories of Gregory of Tours1
Wives, concubines, or slaves? Peter Damian and clerics’ women1
An authority among authorities: knowledge and use of Augustine in the wider Carolingian world1
Monastic archives and the law: legal strategies at Farfa and Monte Amiata at the turn of the millennium1
Balance of power across the Channel: reassessing Frankish hegemony in southern England (sixth–early seventh century)1
In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries1
Gregory’s forgotten rebel: the portrayal of Basina by Gregory of Tours and its implications1
The early medieval secular: spectrum and strategies1
‘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
Law‐books, concomitant texts and ethnically framed legal pluralism on the fringes of post‐Carolingian Europe: northern Italy and Catalonia around 10001
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‘The king and the bishops have much to offer’: episcopal appointments and the legitimacy conflict over the archiepiscopal see of Reims (989‐99)1
Atmospheric architecture: Gregory of Tours’s use of the fear of God in Tours Cathedral and the Basilica of St Martin1
A secular shift in Carolingian history writing?1
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
Alfredian military reform: the materialization of ideology and the social practice of garrisoning1
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 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
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
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England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, c. 680–1073. By BenjaminSavill. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. xvi + 330 pp. £83. ISBN 9780198887058.0
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
What is adoration? Contesting meaning in the margins of the Opus Caroli regis contra synodum (c.790–4)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 Codex Amiatinus and its ‘Sister’ Bibles: Scripture, Liturgy, and Art in the Milieu of the Venerable Bede. By CeliaChazelle. Commentaria: Sacred Texts and their Commentaries – Jewish, Christian and0
Human–animal entanglements in the early medieval European slave trade: re‐reading the Raffelstetten customs regulations0
Who in theworldare the Heruli?10
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
La loi Salique: Retour aux manuscrits. By MagaliCoumert. Collection Haut Moyen Âge47. Turnhout: Brepols. 2023. 436 pp. €75. ISBN 978 2 503 59986 1.0
A coin of Queen Fastrada and Charlemagne0
Trial witnesses, social hierarchies, and state building in the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo0
‘Charms’, Liturgies, and Secret Rites in Early Medieval England. By CiaranArthur. Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer. 2018. viii + 252 pp. £60. ISBN 9781783273133.0
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
Wilfrid’s network bishopric and the primacy of York: writing episcopacy in Stephen’s Life of Wilfrid0
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
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
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
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
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
Epitaph for an Era: Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World. By MaykedeJong. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2019. xxii + 284 pp. ISBN 9781107014312.0
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
The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant0
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The art of the biblical prologue in medieval Catalonia: visual connections and interpretation in the Ripoll Bibles0
Review article: A predestinarian triptych0
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
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
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
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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
The Viking Way. Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia. By NeilPrice. Oxbow Books, Oxford. 2019. 432 pp. £30. ISBN 9781842172605.0
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Teaching monastic masculinity with the Colloquy of Ælfric of Eynsham0
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
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
Introduction Mobility and migration in the early medieval Mediterranean0
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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
Migranten und Stadtgeselleschaft im frühmittelalterlichen Rom. Griechische Einwanderer und ihre Nachkommen im diachronen Vergleich. By PhilippWinterhager. Europa im Mittelalter 35. Berlin and Boston: 0
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The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World – and Globalization Began. By ValerieHansen. [s.l.]: Viking. 320 pp. £20. ISBN 024135126X.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
Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia0
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
The West Saxon boundary clause in context: Celtic and Continental connections0
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
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
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
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
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
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); £25.90
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
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
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
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
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
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A collection of no authority: canon law and the Collectio 91 capitulorum0
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
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
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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
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 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
Frisians of the Early Middle Ages. Edited by JohnHines and Nelleke IJssennagger‐vanderPluijm. Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology 10. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 2021. xiv + 423 pp. with many maps a0
Tenere et Habere: Leihen als soziale Praxis im frühen und hohen Mittelalter. Edited by JürgenDendorfer and SteffenPatzold. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag. 2023. 482 pp. €50. ISBN 978 3 7995 5040 6.0
‘When God sees us in the circuses’: Salvian of Marseille’s De gubernatione Dei and the critique of Roman society0
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
The Myth of Pelagianism. By AliBonner. British Academy Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. 360 pp. £80. ISBN 9780197266397.0
The Spirituality of Countess Matilda of Tuscany. By PenelopeNash. Bologna: Pàtron editore. 2021. 109 pp. €16. ISBN 9788855535298, 8855535293.0
Ut primatum habeant: the early medieval church in Dalmatia and the Aquileian strategy0
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
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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
Daily Life in Late Antiquity. By KristinaSessa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018. x + 250 pp. £ 21.99. ISBN 9780521148405.0
Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities. Edited by WalterPohl, ClemensGantner, CinziaGrifoni and MariannePollheimer‐Mohaupt. Millennium Studies 71. Berlin: De Gruyter. 20180
Changing queenships in tenth‐century England: rhetoric and (self‐)representation in the case of Eadgifu of Kent at Cooling0
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
The Falls of Rome. Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity. By Michele ReneeSalzman. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. 2021. xv + 445 pp. £29.99. ISBN 9781107111424.0
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 Viking Age – A Time of Many Faces. By Caroline AhlströmArcini. Oxford: Oxbow Books. 2018. vi + 120 pp. £38 (hardback). ISBN 978 1 78570 938 8.0
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
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
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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
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
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 Medievali0
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Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300–600 c.e. By DamiánFernández. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylviania Press. 2017. 328pp. £58. ISBN 9780812249460.0
Bede, Æthelberht, and the ‘examples of the Romans’ in early medieval England0
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
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
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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
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
Bonding over a death: signalling in the funeral episode of Ibn Faḍlān’s Risala0
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
Patron Saints of Early Medieval Italy ad c. 350–800: History and Hagiography in Ten Biographies. By NicholasEverett. Durham Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Translations 5. Toronto: Ponti0
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
Cassiodorus' Variae: A Complete and Annotated Translation. By M. ShaneBjornlie. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2019. 530 pp. £103. ISBN 9 78052029736 4.0
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
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
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
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
Review article: Small futures. sortilege, divination and prognostication in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages0
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
Mobility in seventh‐century Byzantium: analysing Emperor Heraclius’ political ideology and propaganda0
Landholding in the Loire valley and the late Carolingian economy (c.840–c.1000)0
Of reaflac and rapina: accusations of violence in two Old English lawsuits and the Libellus Æthelwoldi0
Neighbours and Strangers: Local Societies in Early Medieval Europe. By BernhardZeller, CharlesWest, FrancescaTinti, MarcoStoffella, NicolasSchroeder, CarinevanRhijn, SteffenPatzold, ThomasKohl, WendyD0
Spelling correctness as a witness of changing documentary culture in Tuscia (eighth–ninth centuries)0
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
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
The Little History of the Lombards of Benevento by Erchempert: A Critical Edition and Translation of ‘Ystoriola Longobardorum Beneventum Degentium’. Edited and translated by Luigi AndreaBerto. Routled0
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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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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Der Streit um Formosus. Traktate des Auxilius und weitere Schriften. Edited by AnnetteGrabowsky. Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters 32. Wiesbaden: Har0
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
Codex Epistolaris Carolinus. Letters from the Popes to the Frankish Rulers, 739–791. Translated with an introduction and notes by Rosamond McKitterick, Dorine van Espelo, Richard Pollard and Richard P0
Elephant ivory rings in early medieval graves reconsidered0
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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
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
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 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
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 alleged preaching ban in southern Gaul, 431–529: a reassessment of the arguments and evidence0
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
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
Qualifying Mediterranean connectivity: Byzantium and the Franks during the seventh century0
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
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
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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 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
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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 pp0
Assassin des pauvres. L’église et l’inaliénabilité des terres à l’époque carolingienne. By GaëlleCalvet‐Marcadé. Collection Haut Moyen Âge 30. Turnhout: Brepols. 2019. 358 pp. ISBN 978 2 503 57793 7.0
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
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
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
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
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 1009415378.0
Why the Turks? On the etymological method in Fredegar's account of the Trojan Franks0
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
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
Imperial Invectives against Constantius II: Athanasius of Alexandria, History of the Arians, Hilary of Poitiers, Against Constantius, and Lucifer of Cagliari, The Necessity of Dying f0
Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch. From Hagiography to History. By LucyParker. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2022. xv + 270 pp. £81. ISBN 9780192865175.0
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
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
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
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
Streit, Erzählung und Epoche. Deutschland und Frankreich um 1100. By ThomasKohl. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann Verlag. 2019. 559 pp. €188. ISBN 978 3 7772 1926 4.0
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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
The fortified site at Lanaken near Maastricht (Belgium/the Netherlands). New insights on early medieval military and elite strategies in the middle Meuse valley0
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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
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
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
Archbishop Wulfstan’s criticism of King Edgar in the Anglo‐Saxon Chronicle0
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
Gelasius and the Ostrogoths: jurisdiction and religious community in late fifth‐century Italy0
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Die Krieger der Karolinger. Kriegsdienste als Prozesse gemeinschaftlicher Organisation um 800. By ChristophHaack. Ergänzungsbände zum Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde 115. Berlin and Boston0
Using and Not Using the Past after the Carolingian Empire c. 900–1050. Edited by SarahGreer, AliceHicklin and StefanEsders. London and New York: Routledge. 2020. xi + 308 pp. $160 (hardback); $46.95 (0
Sagax animo: Jonas of Bobbio and the verse epitaph of Pope Honorius0
L’empreinte chrétienne en Gaule du IVe au IXe siècle. Edited by MichèleGaillard. Turnhout: Brepols. 2014. 551 pp. ISBN 9782503550442.0
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
Quasi in domo propria sub securitate sanaretur: a peace agreement between King Swein Forkbeard and Duke Richard II of Normandy0
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
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
Mobility and migration in Byzantium: who gets to tell the story?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
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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
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
Western Europe in the age of Abbot‐Bishop Oliba: persistence and transformation after the Carolingians0
Roman Infrastructure in Early Medieval Britain: The Adaptations of the Past in Text and Stone. By MateuszFafinski. The Early Medieval North Atlantic. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 2021. 239 p0
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
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
The Edinburgh Companion to Sidonius Apollinaris. Edited by GavinKelly and JoopvanWaarden. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2020. xviii + 838 pp. £195, $255. ISBN 978 1 4744 6169 (hardback); ISBN0
Notam superponere studui. The Use of Annotation Symbols in the Early Middle Ages. By EvinaSteinová. Bibliologia 52. Turnhout: Brepols. 2019. 301 pp. €90. ISBN 2 503 58170 5.0
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
After Charlemagne: Carolingian Italy and Its Rulers. Edited by ClemensGantner and WalterPohl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2021. viii + 337 pp., maps. £75. ISBN 9781108840774.0
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
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. Birmingha0
Manuscripts in the Anglo‐Saxon Kingdoms: Cultures and Connections. By ClaireBreay and JoannaStory with EleanorJackson. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2021. xvii + 242 pp. €58.50. ISBN 978 1 84682 866 9.0
The fall of Merovingian Italy, 561–50
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
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
Constructing clandestine communities: oaths of collective secrecy and conceptual boundaries in the late antique Mediterranean0
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
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Saints’ mobility and confinement: deconstructing Byzantine stories of (fe)male ascetics and monastics0
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
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
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