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Simon of Tournai's Stroke: The Image of an Irate Unbeliever
Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 243-273, June 2023., 2023 For centuries after his death in the late twelfth century, Simon of Tournai, a master of theology in the Parisian schools, had a reputation for being an unbeliever punished by God with a stroke. This article gathers the eight known medieval sources for his stroke and examines them from a mythogenetic perspective to demonstrate how different authors ...
Keagan Brewer
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Landholding in the Loire valley and the late Carolingian economy (c.840–c.1000)
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 274-296, May 2023., 2023 This article builds on recent work on the Carolingian economy by giving an overview of landholding patterns and associated economic activity in the Loire valley in the ninth and tenth centuries. It demonstrates that only individuals and institutions with access to patronage from the royal fisc possessed large, unified estates; the majority of land was ...
Niall Ó Súilleabháin
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‘I was Born in One City, but Raised in Another’: Aretino's Perugian Apprenticeship
Renaissance Studies, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 166-191, April 2023., 2023 Abstract According to his apocrypha, Aretino was forced to flee his hometown of Arezzo after penning some anti‐papal verses. Similarly, it is claimed that he fled Perugia ten years later after painting a lute into the hands of a depiction of the Maddalena, which stood in one of the town's piazze.
William T. Rossiter
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 95-121, February 2023., 2023 This article examines the meaning and function of the Old English noun reaflac in two tenth‐century lawsuit documents, Sawyer 877 and Sawyer 1211. It suggests that reaflac was the vernacular counterpart to the Latin terms violentia and rapina. Such connected terminology suggests that a collection of now lost tenth‐century Old English charters, like S ...
Brittany Hanlon
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Keeping Fit in Later Medieval England: Exercise for Man and Beast
History, Volume 107, Issue 376, Page 507-525, June 2022., 2022 Abstract This article begins by exploring ideas about physical exercise as outlined in the advice literature that circulated widely in late medieval and early sixteenth‐century England. Whereas other aspects of these popular guides to health have attracted considerable interest on the part of medical and cultural historians, recommendations about ...
Carole Rawcliffe
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Towards a trans‐regional approach to early medieval Iberia
History Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The past few decades have witnessed great change in the study of the early Middle Ages in the Northern Iberian Peninsula. Spanish and Portuguese historiographies have moved away from older grand narratives such as ‘Reconquest and Repopulation’, which traced a centuries‐long process encompassing the ultimate victory of Christianity over Islam ...
Álvaro Carvajal Castro +11 more
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UNINTENTIONAL MONUMENTS, OR THE MATERIALIZING OF AN OPEN PAST
History and Theory, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 242-268, June 2022., 2022 ABSTRACT This article examines the emergence of a new epistemic value that was attributed to remnants of the past during the broad debate on historical evidence in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the unintentionality of the testimony.
LISA REGAZZONI
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 2, Page 209-235, May 2022., 2022 Carcassonne G 6, preserving a judicial oath from 833, is an exceptional source for the history of the Spanish March and more generally the workings of power in the Carolingian world. The oath, concerning at first glance a very local dispute, links a body of royal charters with the precepts for the hispani issued by Charlemagne, Louis the Pious and ...
Christoph Haack, Thomas Kohl
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Walking, and Knowing the Past: Antiquaries, Pedestrianism and Historical Practice in Modern Britain
History, Volume 107, Issue 374, Page 51-73, January 2022., 2022 Abstract How do those who write history know the past? This article addresses this question by examining the work of late eighteenth‐ and nineteenth‐century antiquaries, whose historical practice was closely tied to their embodied experience of the places about which they wrote.
PAUL READMAN
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The Carolingian local ecclesia as a ‘temple society’?
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 535-554, November 2021., 2021 This article assesses the question to what extent the model of a ‘temple society’ can be fruitfully employed as a tool of analysis for the Carolingian ecclesia, by which we mean not only the rich, well‐endowed churches, but also the small, local ones.
Steffen Patzold, Carine van Rhijn
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