The remains of the saints: the evidence of early medieval relic collections
July 2020
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Journal article
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Early Medieval Europe
This article explores the materiality of early medieval devotion to the saints. It argues that, even though most of the material objects themselves no longer survive, there is nevertheless much to be gleaned from surviving caches of relic labels about what churches believed they possessed. It exploits the same evidence to explore how types of relic‐objects changed over time, track evidence for the importance of oral tradition in their formation, and identify pathways of circulation. In demonstrating how churches curated the relics in their care, it pinpoints the active participation of scribes and relic custodians in interpreting and re‐interpreting them.
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Cursing and Curing, or The practice of Christianity in eighth-century Rome
August 2018
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Chapter
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Italy and Medieval Europe: Papers for Chris Wickham on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
Relics and the insular world, c. 600-c. 800
December 2017
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Conference paper
One site, many more meanings: The community of Saint-Maurice d'Agaune and its relic collection
January 2017
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Chapter
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Emotions, Communities, and Difference in Medieval Europe Essays in Honor of Barbara H. Rosenwein
Eleventh-Century Relic Collections and the Holy Land
January 2017
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Chapter
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Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500
This book will examine natural media used for translating loca sancta, the processes of their sanctification and how, although inherently abstract, they become charged with meaning.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Pippin III and the sandals of Christ
April 2016
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Chapter
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Religious Franks. Religion and power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in honour of Mayke de Jong
This volume in honour of Mayke De Jong offers twenty-five essays focused upon the importance of religion to Frankish politics, a discourse to which De Jong herself has contributed greatly in her academic career. The prominent and internationally renowned contributors offer fresh perspectives on various themes such as the nature of royal authority, the definition of polity, unity and dissent, ideas of correction and discipline, the power of rhetoric and the rhetoric of power, and the diverse ways in which power was institutionalised and employed by lay and ecclesiastical authorities. As such, this volume offers a uniquely comprehensive and valuable contribution to the field of medieval history, in particular the study of the Frankish world in the eighth and ninth centuries.
Relics: an evolving tradition in Latin Christianity
November 2015
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Chapter
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Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond
Les reliques et leurs étiquettes
May 2015
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Chapter
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L’abbaye de Saint-Maurice d’Agaune, 515-2015
No abstract available.
Les étiquettes d'authentification des reliques
September 2014
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Journal article
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Archéothéma
No abstract available.
Care of Relics in Early Medieval Rome
May 2014
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Chapter
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Rome and Religion in the Early Middle Ages: Studies in Honor of Thomas F. X. Noble
Rome and Religion in the Medieval World provides a panoramic and interdisciplinary exploration of Rome and religious culture. The studies build upon or engage Thomas F.X. Noble’s interest in Rome, especially his landmark contributions to the origins of the Papal States and early medieval image controversies. Scholars from a variety of disciplines offer new viewpoints on key issues and questions relating to medieval religious, cultural and intellectual history. Each study explores different dimensions of Rome and religion, including medieval art, theology, material culture, politics, education, law, and religious practice. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, including manuscripts, relics, historical and normative texts, theological tracts, and poetry, the authors illuminate the complexities of medieval Christianity, especially as practiced in the city of Rome itself, and elsewhere in Europe when influenced by the idea of Rome. Some trace early medieval legacies to the early modern period when Protestant and Catholic theologians used early medieval religious texts to define and debate forms of Roman Christianity. The essays highlight and deepen scholarly appreciation of Rome in the rich and varied religious culture of the medieval world.
Material Christianity in the early medieval household
May 2014
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Chapter
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Religion and the Household
Reflecting growing awareness of the complex relationship between public and private spaces, this volume is an important contribution to research into the family and household as a locus of doctrine and piety. Contributions show how the domestic sphere has sustained Christian practice and furthered the spread of Christianity but also how it has contributed to the marginalization of the Church and the rise of secularism.
Writing in Britain and Ireland, c . 400 to c . 800
November 2012
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Chapter
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The Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature
4705 Literary Studies, 36 Creative Arts and Writing, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies, 3602 Creative and Professional Writing
Portable Christianity: Relics in the Medieval West (c.700–1200)
October 2012
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Journal article
<p>This paper uses the proxy evidence of relic inventories and labels to explore the role of relics in medieval Christianity. By means of an examination of their material nature, it argues that their primary characteristics were their fragmentary and often amorphous nature; their lack of intrinsic identification; and their easy portability. By emphasising that relic collecting was a habit that contributed to establishing religious identities and affiliations, the paper clarifies relics' role in relocating knowledge of Christian history into the homes and churches of medieval Europe. Finally, having noted that their dissemination followed established networks of travel and communication, it emphasises that relics rendered the essentials of Christianity tangible and portable.</p>
La réécriture chez Hucbald de Saint-Amand
September 2010
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Chapter
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L’hagiographie Mérovingienne à Travers ses Réécritures
Rulers and Relics c.750-c.950: Treasure on Earth, Treasure in Heaven
January 2010
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Journal article
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Past & Present
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
Pilgrimage and Spiritual Healing in the Ninth Century
August 2009
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Chapter
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Medieval Christianity in Practice
Medieval Christianity in Practice provides readers with a sweeping look at the religious practices of the European Middle Ages. Comprising forty-two selections from primary source materials--each translated with an introduction and commentary by a specialist in the field--the collection illustrates the religious cycles, rituals, and experiences that gave meaning to medieval Christian individuals and communities.
Radegundis peccatrix: authorizations of virginity in late antique Gaul
January 2009
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Chapter
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Transformations of Late Antiquity: Essays for Peter Brown
This book focuses on a simple dynamic: the taking in hand of a heritage, the variety of changes induced within it, and the handing on of that legacy to new generations. Our contributors suggest, from different standpoints, that this dynamic represented the essence of 'late antiquity'. As Roman society, and the societies by which it was immediately bounded, continued to develop, through to the late sixth and early seventh centuries, the interplay between what needed to be treasured and what needed to be explored became increasingly self-conscious, versatile, and enriched. By the time formerly alien peoples had established their 'post-classical' polities, and Islam began to stir in the East, the novelties were more clearly seen, if not always welcomed; and one witnesses a stronger will to maintain the momentum of change, of a forward reach. At the same time, those in a position to play now the role of heirs were well able to appreciate how suited to their needs the 'Roman' past might be, but how, by taking it up in their turn, they were more securely defined and yet more creatively advantaged. 'Transformation' is a notion apposite to essays in honour of Peter Brown. 'The transformation of the classical heritage' is a theme to which he has devoted, and continues to devote, much energy. All the essays here in some way explore this notion of transformation; the late antique ability to turn the past to new uses, and to set its wealth of principle and insight to work in new settings. To begin, there is the very notion of what it meant to be 'Roman', and how that notion changed. Subsequent chapters suggest ways in which fundamental characteristics of Roman society were given new form, not least under the impact of a Christian polity. Augustine, naturally, finds his place; and here the emphasis is on the unfettered stance that he took in the face of more broadly held convictions - on miracles, for example, and the errors of the pagan past...
"Carrying the cares of state": gender perspectives on early medieval Staatlichkeit
January 2009
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Chapter
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Der Frühmittelalterliche Staat: Europäische Perspektiven
Saints and their cults
September 2008
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Chapter
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The Cambridge History of Christianity
The Cambridge History of Christianity
September 2008
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Book
Early Medieval Christianities, c. 600-c.1100
January 2008
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Other
Europe after Rome
June 2007
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Book
4705 Literary Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology, 4301 Archaeology, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4303 Historical Studies
Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900
November 2004
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Book
Using gender analysis to study power and culture between c. 300 and 900, this study examines the women, men and eunuchs who lived in the late Roman, Byzantine, Islamic and western European civilizations. It assesses the ways in which gender identity was established and manifested in written and material cultural forms, emphasizing the integral relationship between the masculine and feminine by exploring costume, attitudes to the body, social and political institutions and a wide range of literary genres.
Gendering the early medieval world
November 2004
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Chapter
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Gender in the Early Medieval World East and West, 300-900
In this book, sixteen scholars on the cutting edges of their disciplines explore the ideas and expressions of gender that characterised the centuries from c.300 to 900 in milieux ranging from York to Baghdad, via Rome and Constantinople.
History
EINHARD: THE SINNER AND THE SAINTS1
December 2003
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Journal article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
4303 Historical Studies, 43 History, Heritage and Archaeology
"Emending Evil Ways and Praising God's Omnipotence": Einhard and the Uses of Roman Martyrs
October 2003
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Chapter
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Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing
No abstract available.
Women at the Tomb: Access to Relic Shrines in the Early Middle Ages
June 2002
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Chapter
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The World of Gregory of Tours
In a fascinating series of essays, the life, works and world of Gregory of Tours are evaluated. This sixth-century bishop is probably best known as writer of the History of the Franks. The collection of essays makes a valuable contribution to the flourishing field of Gregory of Tours studies. Though the contributors take full account of his political dimension, they also see Gregory in his cultural context. In addition to being representative of the age in which he lived, Gregory is presented here as an exceptional man. Furthermore, the contributors offer an up-to-date assessment of Merovingian culture, history and religion. Themes include: the urban history of Tours and the Merovingian world; ideas, politics and international contacts in the Merovingian world; the Merovingian church; Gregory's hagiographic writings; the Histories; and the manuscript tradition.
Confronting identities: the rhetoric and reality of a Carolingian frontier
January 2002
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Chapter
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Integration und Herrschaft: Ethnische Identitäten und Soziale Organisation im Frühmittelalter
No abstract available.
Aedificatio sancti loci: the making of a ninth-century holy place
June 2001
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Chapter
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Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages
The 19 papers presented in this volume by North American and European historians and archaeologists discuss how early medieval political and religious elites constructed ‘places of power’, and how such places, in turn, created powerful people. They also examine how the ‘high-level’ power exercised by elites was transformed in the post-Roman kingdoms of Europe, as Roman cities gave way as central stages for rituals of power to a multitude of places and spaces where political and religious power were represented. Although the Frankish kingdoms receive a large share of attention, contributions also focus on the changing topography of power in the old centres of the Roman world, Rome and Constantinople, to what ‘centres of power’ may have meant in the steppes of Inner Asia, Scandinavia or the lower Vistula, where political power was even more mobile and decentralised than in the post-Roman kingdoms, as well as to monasteries and their integration into early medieval topographies of power.
L'accès des femmes aux saintes reliques durant le haut Moyen Âge
January 2001
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Journal article
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Médiévales
Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West: Essays in Honour of Donald A.Bullough
June 2000
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Book
This illustrated book is a coherently conceived collection of interdisciplinary essays by distinguished authors on the city of Rome and its contacts with western Christendom in the early Middle Ages (c. 500-1000 AD). The first part integrates historical, archaeological, numismatic and art historical approaches to studying the transition of the city of Rome from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and offers groundbreaking new analyses of selected sites and problems. Attention is given to the economic, social, religious and cultural history of the city. In the second part of the volume historical, archaeological, liturgical and palaeographical approaches address Rome's contacts and influence in Latin Christendom in this period, with particular regard to Rome's place within Italian politics and its cultural influence in Carolingian Francia and Anglo-Saxon England.
Old saints, new cults: Roman relics in Carolingian Francia
June 2000
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Chapter
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Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West
This illustrated book is a coherently conceived collection of interdisciplinary essays by distinguished authors on the city of Rome and its contacts with western Christendom in the early Middle Ages (c. 500-1000 AD). The first part integrates historical, archaeological, numismatic and art historical approaches to studying the transition of the city of Rome from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and offers groundbreaking new analyses of selected sites and problems. Attention is given to the economic, social, religious and cultural history of the city. In the second part of the volume historical, archaeological, liturgical and palaeographical approaches address Rome's contacts and influence in Latin Christendom in this period, with particular regard to Rome's place within Italian politics and its cultural influence in Carolingian Francia and Anglo-Saxon England.
Did women have a transformation of the Roman world?
January 2000
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Chapter
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Gendering the Middle Ages
A collection in which a group of leading historians of medieval Europe apply a gendered analysis to a series of questions ranging from the transformation of the Roman world and the Christian challenge to late antique masculinity, through canon law and Byzantine coinage to the childhood of medieval visionaries.
Gender and ideology in the Early Middle Ages
December 1998
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Chapter
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Gender and Christian Religion
These essays on the complex influence of gender on the development of Christian religion extend the gender issue to questions concerning the role of men and masculinity in the development and spread of Christianity, and to more theoretical issues arising from the wider concept of gender and questions of gender awareness. Chronologically the collection moves from the martyrdoms of the Early Church to the twentieth century; geographically it includes both the heartland of western Christendom in Britain and Europe, and colonial missions in the nineteenth century and more recent developments in South Africa and Australia. Evidence drawn on extends from Middle English texts to Romanian wall-paintings, from seventeenth-century religious polemic to intimate personal diaries. Dr R.N. SWANSON teaches in the Department of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham.
Regarding medievalists: contexts and approaches
January 1997
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Chapter
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Companion to Historiography
The Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. Contributed by a distinguished panel of academics, each essay conveys in direct, jargon-free language a genuinely international, wide-angled view of the ideas, traditions and institutions that lie behind the contemporary urgency of world history.
A Hagiographer at work: Hucbald and the library at Saint-Amand
January 1996
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Journal article
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Revue Bénédictine
4705 Literary Studies, 47 Language, Communication and Culture, 50 Philosophy and Religious Studies, 5004 Religious Studies, 5005 Theology
Fines Imperii : the Marches
September 1995
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Chapter
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The New Cambridge Medieval History
Religion and lay society
September 1995
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Chapter
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The New Cambridge Medieval History
The problem of female sanctity in Carolingian Europe, 750-920
February 1995
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Journal article
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Past and Present: A Journal of Historical Studies
The hagiography of Hucbald of Saint-Amand’
January 1994
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Journal article
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Studi Medievali
Review article: Early medieval hagiography in the late twentieth century
March 1992
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Journal article
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Early Medieval Europe
Province and Empire
January 1992
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Book
Oral and Written: Saints, Miracles, and Relics in Brittany, c. 850-1250
April 1990
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Journal article
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Speculum
Culte impérial et politique frontalière dans la vallée de la Vilaine. Le témoignage des diplômes carolingiens dans le Cartulaire de Redon
January 1986
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Chapter
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Landévennec et le monachisme breton dans le haut moyen âge: actes du colloque du 15eme centenaire de l'abbaye de Landévennec, 25-26-27 avril 1985
The sack of Vannes by Pippin III
January 1986
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Journal article
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Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies
Celtic asceticism and Carolingian authority in early medieval Brittany
September 1985
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Chapter
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Monks, Hermits and the Ascetic Tradition
The "Archbishopric" of Dol and the ecclesiastical politics of ninth-century Brittany