Portraits of medieval Europe, 800-1400 / edited by Christian Raffensperger and Erin Thomas Dailey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raffensperger, Christian, editor.

Dailey, E. T. (Erin T.), editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages.

Civilization, Medieval.

Imaginary biography.

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

Europe--Social conditions--To 1492.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024

Biography/History:

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).

Contents:

Introduction / Lucy K. Pick

'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

Gisela, Abbess of Chelles, in conversation with Charlemagne and Alcuin of York / Rutger Kramer and Ingrid Rembold

Theutberga : Reflections on the divorce of King Lothar II / Erin Thomas Dailey

For she Is not to work : a noble's experience of human trafficking in the Viking age / Christopher Paolella

Ruin and misery : the troubles of Erchempert of Montecassino / Christopher Heath

On the Caliph's secret service : Ibrāhīm ibn Ya'qūb on Slavic Europe / Andrii Danylenko

Brian Bórumha, high King of Ireland / Benjamin Hudson

Otloh of St Emmeram : a life of temptations / Juanita Feros Ruys

Unknown : a concubine of many names / Stacey E. Murrell

Basil the Bogomil : seen through contemporary eyes / Hisatsugu Kusabu

My father's noble life : Boris, son of King Koloman by Konstantinos Kalamanos / Christian Raffensperger

Heloise : philosopher of love and friendship / Donald Ostrowski

Between the lines : the life of Havoise of Brittany, c. 1096-1165 / Amy Livingstone

The gifts of Teresa Fernández / Miriam Shadis

'A princess wooed by many' : Agnes of France, Empress of Constantinople / Erin Jordan

I am Thibaut I of Navarre, the poet who would be king / Xabier Irujo

Notarius Ricardus de Omnibene, OFM, from Genoa / Felicitas Schmieder

On the edges : medieval Swansea, visited by Ralph Baldock, Bishop of London / Catherine A.M. Clarke

Queen Helen of Serbia : Catholic noblewoman, orthodox queen / Jelena Erdeljan

The Missini siblings / Rena Lauer

A pilgrim's deliberation : Johaneta Aymara's pilgrimage to Le Puy-en-Velay, en route to the Camino de Santiago de Compostela / Susan McDonough

Abbot Heinrich Kresse and St Barbara / Emilia Jamroziak.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 03, 2024).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Portraits of medieval Europe, 800-1400

ISBN:

9781003318972

1003318975

9781003847557

1003847552

9781003847588

1003847587

Publisher Number:

40032251465

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.