Where the Middle Ages Begin
With the rival clerics out of the way, Gregory still needed to solidify his new and publicly contested position with local elites and other powerful members of his new congregation. Thus, much of what Gregory did early in his episcopacy was intended to convince the community at Tours that he was their right man.
Nowadays people can get heavily fined or even jailed for copyright infringement7 but it is not generally a capital offence. So how could a holy man, of all people, derive such a sense of righteousness and glory from the carnage of war, especially one apparently triggered by something as innocuous as the copying of a single manuscript?
In the period after the fall of Rome and before the Vikings, Scotland became a Christian society, but there are few historical documents to help understand how this happened.
The cemeteries contained the remains of not less than 867 people, some of whom died in childhood, but all of whom, if they had survived the first few years of life…
Early medieval churchmen, rulers, and jurists saw multiple things in abortion and there were multiple perspectives upon abortion.
Halfond takes a look at the reign of Charibert I, the Merovigian ruler of the Kingdom of Paris from 561-567, and his early relations with the church.
St Benedict of Nursia: the Birth of Western Monasticism Steele, Helen Published Online, Guernicus.com (2006) Abstract St Benedict of Nursia was the founder of western monasticism and an important figure in the early medieval church. Eschewing the dissolute lifestyle of Rome, he became an ascetic hermit, and then as others began to flock to him, he […]
Early medieval port customs, tolls and controls on foreign trade Middleton, Neil Early Medieval Europe, Vol.13:4 (2005) Abstract The objective of this paper is to offer a fresh perspective on the nature and organization of international trade in early medieval ports from the evidence of documentary sources on tolls and customs, trading practices and controls on […]
The role of the nobility in the creation of Gallo-Frankish society in the late fifth and sixth centuries AD Wood, Catrin Mair Lewis PhD Thesis, University of Nottingham (2002) Abstract The aim of this dissertation is to explore the contribution made by the nobility, both Gallo-Roman and Frankish, to the creation of a new society after […]
In North Africa, as in other regions of the Byzantine Empire, supra-regional types and fashions sometimes co-existed with local traditions.
We have had a long tradition of attempts to replace her historical image with an idealized, uncritical glossy picture or to denigrate her utterly.
Alfred’s Historia Ecclesiastica Uijttewaal, B.T. B.A. Thesis, Universiteit Utrecht (2011) Abstract The “English” had been punished by God through the arrival of the Vikings. The British before them, had lapsed in their faith and been sent the scourge of the Anglo-Saxons. This was the message of king Alfred at the end of the 9th century […]
A Gregorian manuscript in the Ian Potter Museum of Art Martyn, John R.C. University of Melbourne Collections, Issue 6, June (2010) Abstract In about 1000 a very interesting illuminated manuscript that probably held copies of all of the letters of Pope Gregory the Great was created. Five centuries later, 41 of these letters, from books two, […]
HISPANISMS IN THE LANGUAGE OF ISIDORE OF SEVILLE Maltby, Robert Hispania terris omnibus felicior: Premesse ed esiti di un processo di integrazione, Pisa (2001) Abstract For the student of late Latin in Spain Isidore of Seville (560-636 AD) is a very important figure, as he is writing at a time when the Latin of the […]
The Ostrogoths in Italy By Biagio Saitta Polis: Revista de ideas y formas políticas de la Antigüedad Clásica, Vol. 11 (1999) Introduction: The attempt at Roman-Germanic cohabitation which Odoacer (Odovacar) successfully made between 476 und 489 was taken even further by the Ostrogoths. Coming from the middle Danube, they arrived in Italy with the approval […]
Constructed Landscapes and Social Memory; Tales of St. Samson in Early Medieval Cornwall Harvey, Dr. David C. (Department of Geography, University of Exeter) Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 20:2 (2002) Abstract This article considers the historical geography of place and space within the context of medieval Britain. Through examining the geography invoked within a […]
The Journey of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai Duelt, Daniel Duran Mediterraneum: The Splendor of the Medieval Mediterranean (13th-15th centuries), ed. Xavier Barral i Altet (Lunwerg, 2004) Abstract During the Middle Ages, the monastery of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai was a pilgrimage centre of great importance for the Christian world. The 6th century foundation by Justinian was […]
A Merovingian Commentary on the Four Gospels Hen, Yitzhak Revue des Etudes Augustiniennes, 49 (2003) Abstract The Bible was a vital force in early medieval Francia. It offered Merovingian authors a veiled way of talking about the current order of things, and it provided them with an ideal image, against which the present could be […]
Fragments of Boethius: the reconstruction of the Cotton manuscript of the Alfredian text Irvine, Susan Anglo-Saxon England, 34 (2005) Abstract ‘These fragments I have shored against my ruins’: T. S. Eliot’s metaphor in The Waste Land evokes the evanescent frailty of human existence and worldly endeavour with a poignancy that the Anglo-Saxons would surely have appreciated. […]
The Edictum Theoderici: A Study of a Roman Legal Document from Ostrogothic Italy By Sean D.W. Lafferty PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2010 Abstract: This is a study of a Roman legal document of unknown date and debated origin conventionally known as the Edictum Theoderici. Comprised of 154 edicta, or provisions, in addition to a […]
Contextualizing Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People with Bioarchaeological Data – Reassessing Anglo-Saxon Culture, Health, and Disease By Joseph Z. Boyer The School of Historical Studies Postgraduate Forum E-Journal Edition, Vol. 7 (2009) Abstract: Both the limitations of paleopathological data and the lack of textual remains from early Anglo-Saxon Britain create difficulties when trying to interpret culture, […]
Arthur of Dalriada Revisited Lathe, Richard (Edinburgh) The Heroic Age, Issue 7, Spring (2004) Abstract The case that the historical King Arthur might be the Dalriadic prince Artur, or Artuir, has been re-examined recently. Ziegler (1999) concluded that there is no compelling reason to believe that this individual was Arthur. However, I argue here that […]
The End of the Lower Danubian Limes: A Violent or a Peaceful Process? By Alexandru Madgearu Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica, Vol.12 (2006) Abstract: If we consider that the end of the limes signified the abandonment of the fortresses by the Byzantine army, then we should agree that this process was violent, but only before 598. […]
Excavation of an early medieval settlement and other sites at Dromthacker, Tralee, Co. Kerry Cleary, Rose M. (University College Cork) Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Vol. 108C, (2008) Abstract This report presents the results of excavations of a ringfort, an enclosure and two fulachtaí fia (popularly known as fulachta fiadh). Pre-enclosure settlement on the ringfort […]
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