scholarly journals Dragon of Skyros : a study on the cultures of the ninth century through creative fiction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Konrad Bennett Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Creative Fiction ◽  
Cultural Perspectives ◽  
Abbasid Caliphate

To investigate the reception of Classical motifs within the early medieval world, as well as show the multicultural connectivity between peoples, this work of creative fiction explores the tradition of Neoptolemus in the Ninth Century CE. Rather than telling the story from a single perspective, a plethora of cultural perspectives are employed throughout the novel. From the war-ravaged boon companion of the heir to the Abbasid Caliphate, to a far-travelling Scandinavian intersex völva accompanying multicultural Rus merchants into Austrvegr, to a Khazar shaman plagued by her dreams of destruction and her brother's illness, all of the characters in the novel intertwine through imagery and myth, as a Bulgar monk searching out the missing fragments of Neoptolemus' story meets and brings together the patchwork of stories.

The Abbey of Werden on the Frankish-Saxon Frontier. The Depictions of Landscapes and Emotions in the vita Gregorii and the vitae Liudgeri

Millennium ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 313-387
Author(s):  
Bart Peters
Keyword(s):  
Third Space ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Christian Worship ◽  
Emotional Behaviour ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Military

Abstract This study explores the depictions of landscapes and emotions in the ninth-century hagiographies associated with Liudger: the three vitae Liudgeri and Liudger’s own vita Gregorii. The Frisian missionary founded the monastery of Werden, situated near the Frankish-Saxon frontier. It will be argued that previous historiography on early medieval frontiers has predominantly focused on the military nature of frontiers. Here, more cultural or symbolic natures of the Frankish-Saxon frontier will be discussed. The hagiographical narratives will be examined in conjunction with the notion of a frontier as a ‘third space’. The vitae Liudgeri shaped a discourse that legitimated Liudger’s translation to Werden. This resulted in the creation of a new place of Christian worship in the competitive landscape of post-conquest Saxony, as part of the Christianization of the region. Monasteries like Werden were the places where new missionaries were educated who would continue this Christianization. Exemplary emotional behaviour of the saints, narrated in hagiographies, could help instruct this new generation. Altfrid and Liudger tried to dissuade emotions of anger, indicated by ira or furor, with their hagiographical narratives. These two perspectives offer a glimpse into the attempts of a local monastery to stand out in the Frankish-Saxon frontier.

A Florilegium on the Ecclesiastical Grades in CLM 19414: Testimony to Ninth-Century Clerical Institution

1970 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger E. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Religious Instruction ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
Medieval Canon Law

The treasure manuscriptClm 19414of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich has for many years provided scholars in three fields of study with a rich lode of material. Art historians have found one of the best examples of fourteenth-century GermanBibliae pauperumin this manuscript. Historians of canon law have discovered several books of the early eleventh-centuryCollectio XII Partium. For historians of the barbarian lawsClm 19414contains an excellent witness to theLex Baiuwariorum. The purpose of this article is to bring to light another portion ofClm 19414, a florilegium on the ecclesiastical grades which should be of interest to historians of early medieval canon law, religious instruction, and sacramental theology.

Roman-canonical elements in the ancient 'Germanic' system of proof

2007 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-331
Author(s):  
Laurent Waelkens
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
The World

AbstractMany scholars consider that medieval trials by ordeal and collective oaths are typical of primitive societies. They occured all over the world and would have been introduced by the Germans in early-medieval Western Europe. These means of proof emerged in the eighth and ninth century, at a time when the administration of justice by the lords and the bishops were intertwined. When comparing them to Roman procedure and the canonists' approach to confession, party oaths and torture, one may consider those 'irrational' proofs as having Roman-canonical origins, as so many other institutions of the time. They should therefore not necessarily be compared to non-European developments.

An English Romanesque Mount and Three Ninth-Century Strap-Ends

2003 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 433-441
Author(s):  
Richard Jewell
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Silver Wire ◽  
The Other ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Anglo Norman ◽  
Open Work

This note discusses several recent English finds of early medieval ornamental metalwork shown at the Society of Antiquaries on 16 May 2002: most notably, a Romanesque mount with open-work foliate decoration having clear parallels with Norman and Anglo-Norman ornament of c 1100–25. Four ninth-century Anglo-Saxon strapends are also described and illustrated, two of which have decorative features with links to contemporary larger-scale works but rarer within the corpus of strap-ends; the other two being unusual examples of East Anglian niello and silver-wire inlay.

Collecting the Desert in the Carolingian West

2006 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynda Coon
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Monastic Reform ◽  
The Past ◽  
Literary Forms ◽  
Hebrew Scripture ◽  
Egyptian Desert

AbstractThe Egyptian desert summoned for its early medieval progeny memories of a past age of superhuman askêsis that posed a challenge to Carolingian attempts at Benedictine hegemony. In response, the architects of ninth-century monastic reform labored to present their votaries with a carefully controlled memory of the Egyptian past, and they did so through a propagandistic aesthetic of literary, visual, and ritual "bricolage." Jaś Elsner defines this aesthetic of bricolage as an artistic form based on symbolic ownership of the past through the display of ancient spolia on contemporary monuments (e.g., the sculptured reliefs collected from past, imperial regimes and exhibited as spolia on the Arch of Constantine) or the layering of present-day texts with past literary forms (e.g., Christian typological exegesis of Hebrew Scripture). Similarly, for the Carolingians, who also ventured into the artistic realm of bricolage, collecting, embodying, and displaying were methods of exerting control over the past.

III. ‘Al-Hind’ India and Indonesia in the Islamic World-Economy, c. 700–1800 A.D.

Itinerario ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Wink
Keyword(s):  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Ninth Century ◽  
North India ◽  
The Political ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Political Unity ◽  
Abbasid Caliphate ◽  
Extended Scale ◽  
Vast Area

In the aftermath of the Islamic conquests of the seventh and early eighth centuries the territory which came under effective domination of the caliphate extended from the Iberian peninsula and North Africa to Central Asia and into the Persian-Indian borderland of Sind which for three centuries remained its easternmost frontier. Beyond Sind a vast area was left unconquered which the Arabs calledal-Hindand which, in their conception, embraced both India and the Indianised states of the Indonesian archipelago and Southeast Asia. In the countless kingdoms ofal-Hindthe Muslims penetrated, up to the eleventh century, only as traders. By the time that Islamic power was established in North India the political unity of the Abbasid caliphate was already lost. Neither India nor Indonesia were provinces of the classical Islamic state. But in the Middle East three decisive developments had occurred and these created patterns which were to survive the political fragmentation of the empire. Most important was that a thoroughly commercialized and monetised economy with a bureaucracy and a fiscal polity had been established which continued to expand. Secondly, from the ninth century onwards, the Islamic military-bureaucratic apparatus had begun to be staffed with imported slaves on an extended scale. And thirdly, from its Arab roots the Islamic conquest state had shifted to a Persianised foundation, adopting Persian culture and the Sassanid tradition of monarchy and statecraft.

Land, Language and Memory in Europe 700–1100

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 169-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Geary
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Medieval History ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
Law Courts ◽  
Written Word

Literacy and property have been among the dominant themes of early medieval history for more than a decade. Since the work of Rosamund McKitterick, Janet Nelson and others, contrary to the assumptions of an earlier generation of scholars, scholars have recognised that die written word profoundly influenced die transmission of die past and the control of the present in early medieval Europe. This was true not only in die highest circles of ecclesiastical and royal life, but also at much more humble levels across Europe. If, as Janet Nelson reminds us, even freedmen could still be referred to in die ninth century as ‘cartularii’, literally charter-men, ‘because of the written carta of manumission required by law courts as symbol and proof of liberation’, die written word reached indeed deeply into society.

scholarly journals Urbanism as Politics in Ninth-Century Italy

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Goodson
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Special Consideration ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Italy ◽  
Italian Peninsula ◽  
The Social ◽  
Western Eurasia ◽  
Ways Of Life

Early medieval Italy was the most densely urbanised part of Western Eurasia until the 11th century. This article seeks to examine how urbanism and the social and policial implication of living in cities shaped the ways of life and patterns of governance in Latin- and Greek-speaking areas of the Italian peninsula. Special consideration is paid to how the Carolingian conquest and Frankish control of parts of Italy might have challenged the roles played by cities in economic and political life in those areas.

scholarly journals RETHINKING EARLY MEDIEVAL ‘PRODUCTIVE SITES’: WEALTH, TRADE, AND TRADITION AT LITTLE CARLTON, EAST LINDSEY

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Hugh Willmott ◽  
Duncan W Wright ◽  
Adam Daubney ◽  
Paul Blinkhorn ◽  
Sophie Newman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
High Status ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Research Agendas

Abstract The rising popularity of hobbyist metal detecting has provided early medieval scholars with various important new datasets, not least the concentrations of metalwork commonly known as ‘productive sites’. Awareness of these foci derives almost exclusively from archaeological evidence, yet they continue to be interpreted through a documentary lens, and are frequently labelled ‘monasteries’. Using the recently discovered site of Little Carlton, Lincolnshire, as a case study, it is argued that comprehension of metal-rich sites is significantly furthered by turning to archaeologically-orientated research agendas and terminologies. As a consequence, seventh- to ninth-century Little Carlton can be understood as one element of a high-status ‘meshwork’ within early medieval East Lindsey, in which elite power was articulated in the landscape through a number of contemporary centres. On site, archaeology indicates the presence of occupation, burial and craft working, but shows that highly symbolic indigenous practices were taking place too, including intentional deposition into a naturally-occurring pond. Evidence for activity either side of the seventh to ninth centuries also stresses the importance of long-term trajectories in shaping the character of places previously celebrated for their finds-rich phases alone.

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