Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800-1400

ISBN-13: 9781032332840 / Twarda / 2024 / 328 str.

Opis

This volume provides a collection of ‘imagined lives’—individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of medieval Europe and the modern period that followed.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Lucy K. Pick

2. ‘My name is Euphemios….Euphemios of Amastris’: memories of a eunuch at His Emperor(s)’ service in the Byzantine insular and coastal koine (ca. 680-ca. 740)

Luca Zavagno

3. Gisela, Abbess of Chelles, in Conversation with Charlemagne and Alcuin of York

Rutger Kramer and Ingrid Rembold

4. Theutberga: Reflections on the Divorce of King Lothar　II

Erin Thomas Dailey

5. For She Is Not to Work: A Noble’s Experience of Human Trafficking in the Viking Age

Christopher Paolella

6. Ruin and Misery: The troubles of Erchempert of Montecassino

Christopher Heath

7. On the Caliph’s Secret Service: Ibrāhīm ibn Ya’qūb on Slavic Europe

Andrii Danylenko

8. Brian Bórumha, High King of Ireland

Benjamin Hudson

9. Otloh of St Emmeram: A Life of Temptations

Juanita Feros Ruys

10. Unknown: A Concubine of Many Names

Stacey E. Murrell

11. Basil the Bogomil: Seen Through Contemporary Eyes

Hisatsugu Kusabu

12. My Father’s Noble Life – Boris, son of King Koloman; by Konstantinos Kalamanos

Christian Raffensperger

13. Heloise: Philosopher of Love and Friendship

Donald Ostrowski

14. Between the Lines: The Life of Havoise of Brittany, c. 1096-1165

Amy Livingstone

15. The Gifts of Teresa Fernández

Miriam Shadis

16. ‘A Princess Wooed by Many’: Agnes of France, Empress of Constantinople

Erin Jordan

17. I am Thibaut I of Navarre, the poet who would be king

Xabier Irujo

18. Notarius Ricardus de Omnibene, OFM, from Genoa

Felicitas Schmieder

19. On the Edges: Medieval Swansea, Visited by Ralph Baldock, Bishop of London

Catherine A.M. Clarke

20. Queen Helen of Serbia. Catholic Noblewoman – Orthodox Queen

Jelena Erdeljan

21. The Missini Siblings

Rena Lauer

22. A Pilgrim’s Deliberation: Johaneta Aymara’s Pilgrimage to Le Puy-en-Velay, en route to the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

Susan McDonough

23. Abbot Heinrich Kresse and St Barbara

Emilia Jamroziak

O autorze

Christian Raffensperger is the Kenneth E. Wray Chair in the Humanities at Wittenberg University, where he is also a professor and chair of the History Department. His overarching aim in his work is to integrate eastern Europe into the rest of medieval Europe. This began with his first book, Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ and the Medieval World (2012), and has continued through his most recent projects such as Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 (2023).

Erin Thomas Dailey is an Associate Professor of Late Antique & Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester. He is currently the Principal Investigator for an ERC-Consolidator Grant (DoSSE Project 101001429). He is also the author of two monographs, Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen (2023), and Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite (2015).