Paradigms and methods in early medieval studies / edited by Celia Chazelle and Felice Lifshitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chazelle, Celia, 1954-

Lifshitz, Felice, 1959-

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval--Study and teaching.

Middle Ages--Study and teaching.

History.

Civilization.

Middle Ages.

Civilization, Medieval.

Europe--Civilization--Study and teaching.

Europe--History--To 476--Study and teaching.

Europe--History--476-1492--Study and teaching.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

The articles in this volume, by scholars all pursuing careers in the United States, concern the theoretical approaches and methods of early medieval studies. Most of the issues examined span the period from roughly 400 to 1000 CE and regions stretching from westernmost Eurasia to the Black Sea and the Baltic. This is the first volume of essays explicitly to reassess the heuristic structures and methodologies of research on "early medieval Europe." Because of its geographic, chronological, thematic, and methodological diversity and scope, the collection also showcases the breadth of early medieval studies currently practiced in the United States.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Early Medieval Studies in Twenty-First-Century America / Celia Chazelle, Felice Lifshitz 1

Part I Paradigms: Romanitas, Ethnicity, and Visual Culture

2 Material Ethnogenesis? A Crystal Conch of the "Goths" / Genevra Kornbluth 23

3 Ethnic and Primitive Paradigms in the Study of Early Medieval Art / Lawrence Nees 41

4 The Amber Trail in Early Medieval Eastern Europe / Florin Curta 61

5 "Romanness" in Early Medieval Culture / Celia Chazelle 81

Part II Methods: Texts and Manuscripts from Carolingian Francia

6 A Cyborg Initiation? Liturgy and Gender in Carolingian East Francia / Felice Lifshitz 101

7 Are They Not Like Us? The Carolingian Fisc in Military Perspective / Bernard S. Bachrach 119

8 The Carolingian Creation of a Model of Patrilineage / Constance Brittain Bouchard 135

9 Political History / Jason Glenn 153

Part III Periodization: From the "Fall of Rome" and Pirenne to Kabbalah

10 Drawing a Line under Antiquity: Archaeological and Historical Categories of Evidence in the Transition from the Ancient World to the Middle Ages / Michael Kulikowski 171

11 Mitteleuropa: The Making of Europe between Byzantium and the Latin West, ca. 800-1025 / Charles R. Bowlus 185

12 Period Trouble: The Impossibility of Teaching Feminist Medieval History / Lisa M. Bitel 203.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-243) and index.

ISBN:

1403969426

9781403969422

OCLC:

122309155

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