Networks and Neighbours 2.1 (2014)
The first part of Networks and Neighbours 2 is centered on the theme ‘Comparisons and Correlations’, as an idea, a philosophy and a method of early medieval History. Reading beyond borders is, in theory, a methodology admired by early medieval scholars and considered when performing research, but to what extent is comparative history a reality in early medieval scholarship? Furthermore, should we pursue this line of thinking, reading, writing and teaching? What are the potential benefits structurally? What new historical representations will emerge from a sustained, earnest attempt at comparing the physical artifacts, mental archaeology and socio-/geo-graphical landscapes of early medieval minds, places, connections and/or neighbourhoods? As a way to engage these questions the papers deal individually and critically with localized situations. When ascribed within our framework of questions these, we believe, provide important reflective sites and positions for further research in this direction, as we continue to explore how immediate and near realities performed in the functioning of wider topographies…and in fact if they ever really did, or if we’ve taken on too much of the cheese and the worms.
Invited Paper
Pawel Szczepanik and Slawomir Wadyl, A Comparative Analysis of Early Medieval North-West Slavonic and West Baltic Sacred Landscapes: An Introduction to the Problems, pp. 1-19
Articles
Eirik Hovden and Rutger Kramer, Wondering about Comparison: Enclaves of Learning in Medieval Europe and South Arabia – Prolegomena to an Intercultural Comparative Research Project, pp. 20-45
Anthony Mansfield, Lords of the North Sea: A Comparative Study of Aristocratic Territory in the North Sea World in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries, pp. 46-70
Marie Bønløkke Spejlborg, Anglo-Danish Connections and the Organisation of the Early Danish Church: Contribution to a Debate, pp. 71-86
Mark Lewis Tizzoni, Dracontius and the Wider World: Cultural and Intellectual Interconnectedness in Late Fifth-Century Vandal North Africa, pp. 87-105
Book Reviews
Anna Dorofeeva, review of Mary Garrison, Arpad P. Orbán and Marco Mostert (eds.), Spoken and Written Language: Relations Between Latin and the Vernacular Languages in the Earlier Middle Ages, Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 24 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 106-108
Hugh Elton, review of Hyun Jin Kim, The Huns, Rome, and the Birth of Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 109-111
Luca Larpi, review of Nicholas J. Higham and Martin J. Ryan, The Anglo-Saxon World (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013), pp. 112-114
Evina Steinova, review of Maddalena Betti, The Making of Christian Moravia (858-882): Papal Power and Political Reality (Boston/Leiden: Brill, 2014), pp. 115-117
Catalin Taranu, review of Leslie Lockett, Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011), pp. 118-121
Phillip Wynn, review of Damien Kempf (ed. & trans.), Paul the Deacon: Liber de episcopis Mettensibus, Dallas Medieval Texts and Translations 19 (Leuven: Peeters, 2013), pp. 122-124
Conference Reports
Katy Soar, Senses of the Empire: Multisensory Approaches to Roman Culture, pp. 125-129
Evina Steinová, Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages XVII, pp. 130-133
Catalin Taranu, Indigenous Ideas and Foreign Influences – Interactions among Oral and Literary, Latin and Vernacular Cultures in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe, pp. 134-155
Hope Deejune Williard, Late Literature in the Sixth Century, East and West, pp. 156-165
Zachary Guiliano, Bulletin: Network for the Study of Caroline Minuscule, pp. 166-168
Interview
Richard Broome, Tim Barnwell, Interview with James Palmer, pp. 169-177
Networks and Neighbours 2.2 (2014)
The second part of Networks and Neighbours 2 explores the concept of cultural capital as an idea, philosophy, and method of doing early medieval history. Since the theory was advanced by Pierre Bourdieu and Jean-Claude Passeron, cultural capital has broadened the way researchers of the modern world consider the meanings of ‘wealth’ and ‘power’, and their relationship to real ‘capital’. The idea is no less relevant to the study of the early middle ages. N&N 2.2 investigates, via cultural capital, the literature and material goods of late antiquity and the early middle ages: the polemics and the paintings, the buildings, coins, jewelry, topoi, prejudices, languages, dress, songs, and hairstyles that framed its world(s)’.
Invited Paper
Kevin Wanner, Strategies of Skaldic Poets for Producing, Protecting, and Profiting from Capitals of Cognition and Recognition, pp. 178-201
Articles
Jonathan Jarret, Engaging Élites: counts, capital and frontier communities in the ninth and tenth centuries, in Catalonia and elsewhere, pp. 202-230
Helen Oxenham, Women Satirists and the Wielding Of Cultural Capital in Early Medieval Ireland, pp. 231-250
Paulo Henrique Pachá, Gift and conflict: Forms of social domination in the Iberian Early Middle Ages, pp. 251-277
Janira F. Pohlmann, Nobility, Ascetic Christianity and Martyrdom: A Family’s Identity in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan, pp. 278-294
Claudia J. Rogers, The Devil in Gregory of Tours: Spirit Intercession and the Human Body, pp. 295-317
Book Reviews
Julia Barrow, review of Ian Wood and Christopher Grocock, The Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 318-319
Colleen Batey, review of Jane Kershaw, Viking Identities: Scandinavian Jewellery in England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 320-322
Isabella Bolognese, review of Steven Vanderputten, Monastic Reform as Process: Realities and Representations in Medieval Flanders, 900-1100 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013), pp. 323-325
Ioannis Papadopoulos, review of Peter Heather, The Restoration of Rome: Barbarian Popes and Imperial Pretenders (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 326-329
Annika Rulkens, review of Sam Collins, The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space (London: Macmillan, 2012), pp. 330-332
Evina Steinova, review of George Declerq, Early Medieval Palimpsests (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 333-335
Otavio Luiz Vieira-Pinto, review of Sean D. W. Lafferty, Law and Society in the Age of Theoderic the Great. A Study of the Edictum Theoderici (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 336-338
Conference Reports
Tom Birkett and Kirsty March, From Eald to New: Translating Early Medieval Poetry for the 21st century, pp. 339-344
Colleen Curran, Liminal Networks: Western Paleography to c. 1100, pp. 345-348
Philipp Dörler, Meeting the Gentes – Crossing the Boundaries: Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe, pp. 349-352
Daniel Knox, From Byzantium to Clontarf: Tenth Annual Conference of The Australian Early Medieval Association, pp. 353-361
Jane Roberts, Guthlac of Crowland: Celebrating 1300 Years, pp. 362-369
Heidi Stoner and Meg Boulton, The “Subterranean” in the Medieval World, pp. 370-375
Simon Thomson, Sensory perception and the medieval world: An Interdisciplinary Conference, pp. 377-387
Interview
Michael J. Kelly, Interview with Björn Weiler, pp. 388-420