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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
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Looking beyond charters and contracts: child slavery in the narrative sources of the early Middle Ages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.
This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
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Slavonic Translations of Saint Basil’s Works [PDF]

, 1982
This feature "ЛѢТОПИСЬ" ('Chronicle') reports on recent events in the field of Early Slavic studies, e.g., celebrations, conferences, symposia, announcements of forthcoming colloquia, and past study groups, etc.On March 21-24 1981, in Birmingham, the ...
Petrović, Danica, Stefanović, Dimitrije, Thomson, Francis J., Veder, William R., Wigzell, Faith C.M.   +4 more
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Land, freedom and the making of the medieval West [PDF]

, 2006
In the course of the fifth and sixth centuries, barbarian warbands acquired property rights in the former provinces of the Roman west, in a process that established the broad structural characteristics of early medieval society in western Europe: that is
Innes, Matthew
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Mountainous vegetation succession and land use during the last millennium in the Peloponnese (southern Greece): Environmental change and economic development in an isolated periphery

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1269-1284, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Mediterranean mountainous areas and their valuable natural resources have long been attractive to human societies. The Peloponnese (southern Greece), with its complex topographic and climatic variability, has been the scenery for the development of numerous human communities.
Katerina Kouli, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Grammatiki Vasileiadi, Dimitrios Lamprakis, Alexis Malliaris, Lucrezia Masci, Alessia Masi, Matthias Moros, Maria Papadaki, Cristiano Vignola, Pavlos Avramidis, Adam Izdebski   +11 more
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Imperial systems and local landscapes of Buldan Yayla in Western Anatolia (Türkiye) during the last 4000 years: An integrated palynological, historical, and archaeological approach

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 1285-1304, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This study investigates long‐term impacts of empires on local socio‐ecosystems in western Anatolia (modern western Türkiye) over the past four millennia. We focus on Buldan Yayla Lake, located in a small mountain basin north of the Büyük Menderes (Great Meander) River valley.
Sabina Fiołna, Mustafa Doğan, Warren Eastwood, John Haldon, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Dilek Şenkul, Çetin Şenkul, Adam Izdebski   +7 more
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A Few Remarks on the Ransom Paid for Releasing Captives in Selected Early Byzantine Hagiographic Texts [PDF]

, 2017
The article analyzes certain early Byzantine hagiographic texts concerning various forms of brigandage (both maritime and land-based). Two such accounts are studied in detail, one by Gerontius of Jerusalem and another by Theodoret of Cyrus. The instances
Dybała, Jolanta, Jagusiak, Krzysztof, Kokoszko, Maciej   +2 more
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Between theft and treason: latrocinium in Carolingian capitularies

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 367-390, August 2025.
Suppressing robbery, latrocinium, was a priority for Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, Charles the Bald, and Louis II at key political moments. Latrones were conceptualized as ordinary thieves, as highway robbers, and as threats to peace and security. In capitularies, latrocinium was implicitly and explicitly associated with infidelity.
James R. Burns
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 309-340, August 2025.
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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I, monster: queerness and the Liber Monstrorum in early medieval St Gall

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 543-564, November 2024.
This article analyses a ninth‐century copy of the Liber monstrorum from St Gall in which the first monster, a ‘human of both sexes’, speaks in the first person. The scribe also put the Liber monstrorum into dialogue with Isidore of Seville’s Etymologiae, in which Isidore argued that monsters were not ‘contrary to nature’.
Michael Eber
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