Writing the early Medieval West : studies in honour of Rosamond McKitterick /
Far from the oral society it was once assumed to have been, early medieval Europe was fundamentally shaped by the written word. This book offers a pioneering collection of fresh and innovative studies on a wide range of topics, each one representing cutting-edge scholarship, and collectively setting...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a study in the education of a society? / Marios Costambeys and Matthew Innes
- Knowledge of the Past: Flavius Josephus: the most influential classical historian of the early Middle Ages / Richard Matthew Pollar
- Bede and the changing image of Rome and the Romans / Paul Hilliard
- Paul the Deacon and Rome / Marios Costambeys
- History and (selective) memory: articulating community and division in Folcuin's Gesta abbatum Lobiensium / Ingrid Rembold
- Appropriate to the religion of their time: Walahfrid's historicisation of the liturgy / Christina Possel
- The order of history: liturgical time and the rhythms of the past in Amalarius of Metz's De ordine Antiphonarii / Graeme Ward
- The Written Word in Early Medieval Europe: The View from the Manuscripts. The manuscript evidence for pharmacy in the early Middle Ages / Nicholas Everett
- Monte Cassino's network of knowledge: the earliest manuscript evidence / Sven Meeder
- Strategies of knowledge organisation in early medieval Latin glossary miscellanies: the example of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14388 / Anna Dorofeeva
- 'Dissonance of speech, consonance of meaning': the 862 Council of Aachen and the transmission of Carolingian conciliar records / Charles West
- Texts and Early Medieval Rulers. The Moorish kingdoms and the written word: three 'textual communities' in fifth- and sixth-century Mauretania / Andy Merrills
- When liturgy gets out of hand / Yitzhak Hen;
- The formation of a European identity: revisiting Charlemagne's coinage / Simon Coupland
- Queenship in dispute: Fastrada, history and law / Matthew Innes
- Remembering and forgetting Lothar I / Elina Screen.
