Early Medieval Europe provides an indispensable source of information and debate on the history of Europe from the later Roman Empire to the eleventh century. The journal is a thoroughly interdisciplinary forum, encouraging the discussion of archaeology, numismatics, palaeography, diplomatic, literature, onomastics, art history, linguistics and epigraphy, as well as more traditional historical approaches. It covers Europe in its entirety, including material on Iceland, Ireland, the British Isles, Scandinavia and Continental Europe (both west and east).
Issue Information
Issue Information Pages: 1–2 / First Published: 15 January 2020
Original Articles
Paying attention to dreams in early medieval normative sources (400–900): countering non‐Christian practices or negotiating Christian dreaming? Jesse Keskiaho Pages: 3–25 / First Published: 15 January 2020
Economic incentives for the Frankish conquest of Saxony Christopher Landon Pages: 26–56 / First Published: 15 January 2020
The Life of Constantine, the Life of Methodius and the history of the Slavs in the ninth century: a reassessment Thomas Lienhard Pages: 57–78 / First Published: 15 January 2020
Pro tutela regni: revisiting a royal diploma from 918 on the birth of Normandy and the first ‘ducal’ laws Gilduin Davy Pages: 79–103 / First Published: 15 January 2020
Henry II, liturgical patronage and the birth of the ‘Romano‐German Pontifical’ Henry Parkes Pages: 104–141 / First Published: 15 January 2020
Book reviews
Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 69. The Abramson Collection. Coins of Early Anglo‐Saxon England and the North Sea Area. By Tony Abramson. London: Spink and Son Limited. 2018. vii + 279 pages + 48 b/w plates. £50. ISBN 978 I 907427 85 5. Anna Gannon Pages: 142–144 / First Published: 15 January 2020
The Making and Meaning of the Liber Floridus. A Study of the Original Manuscript, Ghent, University Library, MS 92. By Albert Derolez. Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 76. Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers. 2015. iv + 355 pp., 22 b/w ill. + 98 colour ill., 148 b/w line art. €125. ISBN 978 1 909400 22 1. Anna Dorofeeva Pages: 144–146 / First Published: 15 January 2020
Penser la paysannerie médiévale, un defi impossible? Recueil d’études offert à Jean‐Pierre Devroey. Edited by Alain Dierkens, Nicolas Schroeder and Alexis Wilkin. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne. 2017. 419 pp. €32. ISBN 979 10 351 0017 9. Rory Naismith Pages: 146–148 / First Published: 15 January 2020
Understanding Medieval Liturgy: Essays in Interpretation. Edited by Helen Gittos and Sarah Hamilton. Farnham: Ashgate. 2016. xvi + 332 pp. £83.99 (hardback); £36.99 (paperback); £21 (ebook). ISBN 9781409451501. Arthur Westwell Pages: 149–151 / First Published: 15 January 2020
The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall: Networks of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages. By Sven Meeder. Studies in Early Medieval History. London: Bloomsbury. 2018. x + 187 pp. incl. 6 b/w ill. £91.80 (hardback); £50.49 (eBook). ISBN 9781350038677. Pádraic Moran Pages: 151–154 / First Published: 15 January 2020
The Splendour of Power. Early Medieval Kingship and the Use of Gold and Silver in the Southern North Sea Area (5th to 7th Century ad). By Johan A.W. Nicolay. Groningen Archaeological Studies 28. Groningen, Barkhuis Publishing and University of Groningen Library. 2014. xiii + 418 pp. €98.10. ISBN 9789491431476. Ian Wood Pages: 154–157 / First Published: 15 January 2020
The Emergence of the English. By Susan Oosthuizen. York: Arc Humanities Press. 2019. viii + 140 pp. £16.95. ISBN 9 781641 89127 1. Alex Woolf Pages: 157–160 / First Published: 15 January 2020
Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe. A ritual interpretation. By Nathan J. Ristuccia. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. 260 pp. £70. ISBN 9780198810209. Lenneke van Raaij Pages: 160–162 / First Published: 15 January 2020
Early Medieval Ireland 431–1169. By Matthew Stout. Dublin: Wordwell. 2017. xiii + 329 pp. €35. ISBN 978 1 99979 090 5.Medieval Ireland. By Clare Downham. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018. 394 pp. $29.99 (paperback); $99.99 (hardback); $24 (ebook). ISBN 978 1 107 65156 4.The Cambridge History of Ireland. Volume I: 600–1550. Edited by Brendan Smith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018. xxxv + 648 pp. $130 (hardback); $32 (ebook). ISBN 978 1 107 11067 0. Patrick Wadden Pages: 162–169 / First Published: 15 January 2020
Being Christian in Vandal Africa: The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post‐Imperial West. By Robin Whelan. Transformation of the Classical Heritage 59. Oakland, California: University of California Press. 2018. 301 pp. $95. ISBN 0 520 29595 7. Jakob Riemenschneider Pages: 170–172 / First Published: 15 January 2020