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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 536-557, November 2022., 2022 Around 1000, a new type of law‐book emerged in Catalonia and northern Italy that attests to new ways of handling legal material. Incorporating in full the Visigothic and Lombard law codes, respectively, these law‐books provided a base for studying and ...
Stefan Esders
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The fall of Merovingian Italy, 561–5
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 543-562, November 2023., 2023 After the end of the Gothic War in the mid‐sixth century, northern Italy remained divided between the Merovingian Franks and the eastern Roman Empire. In the 560s the Frankish territories were finally taken by imperial armies, but the end of Merovingian Italy is variably dated between 561 and 565.
Sihong Lin
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Qualifying Mediterranean connectivity: Byzantium and the Franks during the seventh century
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 380-404, August 2023., 2023 In the last two decades, historians researching the seventh century ce have increasingly emphasized mobility, communications and connectivity across the Mediterranean world that supposedly included close contacts between the Franks and Byzantium. These studies, however, rely often on optimistic, maximum interpretations of the comparatively sparse ...
Mischa Meier, Steffen Patzold
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Assessing place‐based identities in the early Middle Ages: a proposal for post‐Roman Iberia
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 23-50, February 2023., 2023 Sociological models of place‐based identity can be used to better understand the social dynamics of local communities and how they interact with their surroundings. This paper explores how these theoretical models of belonging to a place, in tandem with communal cognitive maps, can be applied to post‐Roman contexts, taking the Iberian Peninsula in the ...
Javier Martínez Jiménez +1 more
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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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Missing Queens: Gender, Dynasty and Power in Vandal Africa
Gender &History, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 3-21, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper reconsiders a curious aspect of the Vandal kingdom of North Africa (439–533 ce): the total absence of women called Vandals in extant sources. It argues that these missing Vandal women are the women of the Hasding royal dynasty. The non‐application of the ethnic terminology to the consorts, sisters and daughters of kings and princes ...
Robin Whelan
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 555-585, November 2021., 2021 In the early medieval west, patronate, as adapted from Roman law, was a fundamental category in determining the legal status of freedmen. In many cases it entailed a basic set of obligations. In an increasing number of situations, however, the patron became an ecclesiastical institution, since slaves and freed persons were often given to churches and ...
Stefan Esders
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The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries: reaching behind the sources
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 586-611, November 2021., 2021 Religious institutions in early medieval Europe were both recipients of former slaves and instigators of manumissions. By drawing on recent work concerning the admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries, the present paper identifies dominant strands in the historiography from Marc Bloch to the present, which are then re‐evaluated in light
Roy Flechner, Janel Fontaine
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Medievalista, 2019 This article deals with a copy of a visigothic regnal list, which is found in two manuscripts of Pseudo-Isidore: Montecassino, ms. 1 and Paris, BnF, lat. 1557.
William Trouvé
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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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