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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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Libro e scrittura in Toscana al tempo di Dante: valutazione dei dati della catalogazione Codex

Codex Studies, 2018
The contribution intends to exploit the results of the CODEX Project, which in nearly twenty years of activity has cataloged about 5000 medieval manuscripts, covering the entire area of Tuscany (with the exception of Florence).
Gabriella Pomaro
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Bishop Torhthelm’s letter to Boniface

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 244-273, May 2025.
In c.738, St Boniface distributed a circular letter to a broad audience of ecclesiastics in England. One response to that letter survives, written by Torhthelm, bishop of the Middle Angles (737–64). The letter is written in an allusive style and borrows heavily from its main source, Pope Vitalian’s letter to Oswiu, king of Northumbria.
Peter Darby
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I nomi degli animali. L’onomastica zoologica in area lombarda tra alto e basso medioevo

Studi di Storia Medioevale e di Diplomatica: Nuova Serie
L’onomastica zoologica rappresenta un campo di studio poco esplorato nell’ambito dell’antroponimia. Questo contributo analizza la funzione, la frequenza e la tipologia degli zoo-antroponimi in area lombarda tra alto e basso medioevo, evidenziando come ...
Riccardo Rao
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Clothing the Female Life: Self‐Fashioning and Memory Making at the Malatesta Network of Women Between the Fourteenth and the Fifteenth Centuries

Renaissance Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 216-236, April 2025.
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between women and their garments by examining written, visual, and material sources about dress drawn from the historical records of the Malatesta family. The objective of this research is to understand whether women of this House had any degree of autonomy regarding the garments that they chose to ‘self‐
Elisa Tosi Brandi
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Moral restraints on wealth accumulation on papal estates in the long sixth century: revisiting Pope Gregory’s policies on alienating and ceding church property

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 50-70, February 2025.
Alienation of church property was in most cases forbidden under both imperial and ecclesiastical legislation. Nevertheless, between 592 and 599 Pope Gregory the Great dealt with ten cases in which property was either relinquished by churches or in which he deliberated whether to compel churches to relinquish property. His justification for disposing of
Roy Flechner
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Paesaggi e sistemi insediativi medievali: un approccio interdisciplinare della ricerca

I Quaderni del MAES, 2017
The contribution aims to offer a methodological approach to the investigation of medieval landscapes. Particular attention is devoted to different types of sources (written and material), to their respective information potential and to their cross-use ...
Paola Galetti
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A polyptych in the margins: accounting notes from early tenth‐century Laon

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 518-542, November 2024.
This paper provides the first edition and thorough examination of marginal notes added to a ninth‐century Carolingian manuscript (Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 424). A detailed paleographic, codicological, linguistic, and historical analysis of these additions allows us not only to trace their provenance to the early tenth‐century see of Laon but ...
Ildar Garipzanov
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L’altro fra noi: incontro e scontro, opposizione e integrazione nelle opere di Giraldo Cambrense

Peloro
Nella Topographia Hibernica e nell’Expugnatio Hibernica, Giraldo Cambrense esplora l’incontro/scontro culturale e militare tra inglesi e irlandesi. Se da un lato, descrive il popolo irlandese come barbaro e selvaggio, dall’altro, delinea un progetto di ...
Michael Bertini
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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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