The community, the family, and the saint
Subtitle: patterns of power in early medieval Europe : selected proceedings of the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 4-7 July 1994, 10-13 July 1995
By: edited by Joyce Hill and Mary Swan.
Contributors: Hill, Joyce, Prof.; Swan, Mary.
Series: International medieval research ;
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Turnhout [Belgium]
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Social structure -- Europe -- History.; Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.; Power (Social sciences) -- Europe.; Europe -- Religious life and customs.; Europe -- Social life and customs
Notes: One article in French.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of Alcuin's concept of the Imperium christianum / Mary Alberi; title: The formation of the Scandinavian parish, with some remarks regarding the English impact on the process / Stefan Brink; title: Sense of community and civic identity in the Italian communes / Edward Coleman; title: Landscape and power: the Frangipani family and their clients in the twelfth-century Roman forum / Matthew Ellis; title: The Geuissae and Bede: on the innovativeness of Bede's concept of the Gens / Harald Kleinschmidt; title: La mutation familiale: a suitable case for caution / Pauline Stafford; title: Gender without sexuality: Hrotsvitha's imagining of a chaste female community / L.M.C. Weston; title: Pollution, penance and sanctity: Ekkehard's life of Iso of St Gall / Mayke de Jong; title: Saint Wilfrid: tribal bishop, civic bishop or Germanic lord? / David Pelteret; title: Miracles and horizontal mobility in the early Middle Ages: some methodological reflections / Hedwig Röckelein; title: La pietas comme principe de gouvernement d'après le Poème sur Louis le Pieux d'Ermold le Noir / Philippe Depreux; title: Why should bishops be involved in marital affairs? Hincmar of Rheims on the divorce of King Lothar II (855-869) / Karl Heidecker; title: Ut in omnibus honorificetur Deus: the Corsnæd ordeal in anglo-saxon England / Sarah Larratt Keefer; title: Crowds and power in the Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis / Joaquín Martínez Pizarro; title: Magic and the early medieval world view / Rob Meens; title: A cure for a sinner: sickness and healthcare in medieval southern Italy / Patricia Skinner; title: Scandinavian law in a tenth-century Rus'-Greek commercial treaty? / Martina Stein-Wilkeshuis; title: Burial, ritual and Merovingian society / Guy Halsall; title: The early medieval inscriptions of western Britain: function and sociology / Mark Handley; title: Treasure bequest: death and gift in the early Middle Ages / Dominic Janes; title: Vikings deceased in England - commemorated by whom? Runic memorials in Sweden / Bertil Nilsson; title: On broken letters scarce remembred: Nash-Williams and the early Christian monuments of Wales / Mark Redknap.