The Community and the Saint

Brepols

1998

xvi, 427 p.

International Medieval Research ; 4

Includes bibliographical references

9782503506685

The evolution of Alcuin's concept of the Imperium christianum / Mary Alberi -- The formation of the Scandinavian parish, with some remarks regarding the English impact on the process / Stefan Brink -- Sense of community and civic identity in the Italian communes / Edward Coleman -- Landscape and power: the Frangipani family and their clients in the twelfth-century Roman forum / Matthew Ellis -- The Geuissae and Bede: on the innovativeness of Bede's concept of the Gens / Harald Kleinschmidt -- La mutation familiale: a suitable case for caution / Pauline Stafford -- Gender without sexuality: Hrotsvitha's imagining of a chaste female community / L.M.C. Weston -- Pollution, penance and sanctity: Ekkehard's life of Iso of St Gall / Mayke de Jong -- Saint Wilfrid: tribal bishop, civic bishop or Germanic lord? / David Pelteret -- Miracles and horizontal mobility in the early Middle Ages: some methodological reflections / Hedwig Röckelein -- La pietas comme principe de gouvernement d'après le Poème sur Louis le Pieux d'Ermold le Noir / Philippe Depreux -- Why should bishops be involved in marital affairs? Hincmar of Rheims on the divorce of King Lothar II (855-869) / Karl Heidecker -- Ut in omnibus honorificetur Deus: the Corsnæd ordeal in anglo-saxon England / Sarah Larratt Keefer -- Crowds and power in the Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennatis / Joaquín Martínez Pizarro -- Magic and the early medieval world view / Rob Meens -- A cure for a sinner: sickness and healthcare in medieval southern Italy / Patricia Skinner -- Scandinavian law in a tenth-century Rus'-Greek commercial treaty? / Martina Stein-Wilkeshuis -- Burial, ritual and Merovingian society / Guy Halsall -- The early medieval inscriptions of western Britain: function and sociology / Mark Handley -- Treasure bequest: death and gift in the early Middle Ages / Dominic Janes -- Vikings deceased in England - commemorated by whom? Runic memorials in Sweden / Bertil Nilsson -- On broken letters scarce remembred: Nash-Williams and the early Christian monuments of Wales / Mark Redknap

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