Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800-1400 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Raffensperger, Christian; Dailey, Erin Thomas

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003847588
• Artikelnr.: 70094141

Autorenporträt

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 and 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, Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite (2015), and Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

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: Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub 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