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The Knightly Brothers of Bernard of Clairvaux and the Twelfth‐Century Cistercian Lay Monk*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 295-317, June 2023., 2023
Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (r. 1115–1153) was a prominent twelfth‐century religious leader whose knightly family collectively converted to monastic life with him in adulthood around 1113. Following Clairvaux's foundation in 1115, Bernard's brothers held roles of significant estate seniority despite their own professional limitations as newly converted ...
Joseph Millan‐Cole
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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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Teudefred and the king. On the manuscript Carcassonne G 6 and the intertwining of localities and centre in the Carolingian world

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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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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Gilds, states and societies in the early Middle Ages

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 28, Issue 4, Page 627-662, November 2020., 2020
The early medieval gilds of north‐west Europe were very different from their later medieval descendants. They were not specifically urban or economic in focus, instead being based on religious devotion, feasting and mutual protection, usually among members united by status and geography.
Rory Naismith
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The scabini in historiographical perspective

History Compass, Volume 18, Issue 10, October 2020., 2020
Abstract The introduction of the scabini, men who served as judgement finders, has long been connected to judicial reform enacted by Charlemagne. By the thirteenth century, the term scabini had become synonymous with legal culture and courts from Norway to Hungary and beyond. This article will trace the scabini from historiographical debates over their
Alice Hicklin
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The politics of being Norman in the reign of Richard the Fearless, Duke of Normandy (r. 942–996)

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 23, Issue 3, Page 308-328, August 2015., 2015
In 966, by the end of the reign of its third duke, Richard I, Normandy had overcome the crises that had beset it in the middle of the century. Much of this success came from the coherence of its ruling group, which expressed itself partly in terms of ‘Norman’ identity.
Fraser McNair
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Recognising Cartulary Studies Thirty Years after Les cartularies

Studia Historica. Historia Medieval
This article begins by considering the achievement of the Les cartulaires volume of essays (1993), particularly in launching a field of inquiry. It reflects on how this field has developed since the early 1990s, especially what has characterised the ...
Joanna Tucker
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The date and context of the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 70-100, February 2026.
The Astronomer's Life of the emperor Louis the Pious (814–40) is a canonical source for scholars of Frankish history. It sits at the centre of recent debates about the nature and tone of Carolingian political discourse, and about the crisis of the empire in the 830s.
Simon MacLean
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Les cartulaires-rouleaux français du Moyen Âge : un archipel à explorer

Bulletin Du Centre D’Études Médiévales D’Auxerre, 2023
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