Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.35253/jaema.2020.1.17
Roderick McDonald
Review(s) of: Monsters in Society: Alterity, Transgression, and the Use of the Past in Medieval Iceland, by Merkelbach, Rebecca, The Northern Medieval World (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications/Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019) hardback, 253 pages, RRP euro86.95; ISBN: 9781501518362.
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Taking Christianisation as the process by which an entire society can be said to have become Christian, this article examines that phenomenon in ninth-century Saxony. The conversion of Saxony was unwelcome and imposed often by force, especially during the time of Charlemagne. This process of Christianisation is considered through two texts: 'Translato sancti Alexandrii and Translatio sancti Liborii'. The isolationism of the Saxons and the divine triumph over that position through Charlemagne are emphasised in these later accounts of the translation of the remains of saints Alexander and Liborius, whose bodies and the miracles associated with them helped reverse the reintroduction of paganism. At the same time, political necessity had seen the Saxons being granted the right to return to their old way of life in support of the Carolingian rulers. In the end, being Christian was portrayed as the best way to be Saxon and the process of Christianisation hastened.
{"title":"The Christianisation of the Saxons","authors":"Roman Michałowski","doi":"10.35253/jaema.2020.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35253/jaema.2020.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Taking Christianisation as the process by which an entire society can be said to have become Christian, this article examines that phenomenon in ninth-century Saxony. The conversion of Saxony was unwelcome and imposed often by force, especially during the time of Charlemagne. This process of Christianisation is considered through two texts: 'Translato sancti Alexandrii and Translatio sancti Liborii'. The isolationism of the Saxons and the divine triumph over that position through Charlemagne are emphasised in these later accounts of the translation of the remains of saints Alexander and Liborius, whose bodies and the miracles associated with them helped reverse the reintroduction of paganism. At the same time, political necessity had seen the Saxons being granted the right to return to their old way of life in support of the Carolingian rulers. In the end, being Christian was portrayed as the best way to be Saxon and the process of Christianisation hastened.","PeriodicalId":38059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70028818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The traditional idea that the conversion of Mieszko I in 966 marked the conversion to Christianity of all of what we may consider to be Poland and its establishment as a nation is questioned in this paper. An examination of the archaeological record providess evidence of Christianity in the area before 966, which suggests that the date of 966 was selected to give some definitive support for the idea of Poland becoming civilised. It also does not provide much evidence of a massive programme of Christianisation under Mieszko I or his son and successor, Boleslaw the Brave. Full Christianisation had to wait until the thirteenth century.
传统观点认为966年梅什科一世的皈依标志着整个波兰的皈依基督教以及波兰作为一个国家的建立，这一观点在本文中受到了质疑。对考古记录的研究提供了966年之前该地区存在基督教的证据，这表明选择966年的日期是为了给波兰变得文明的观点提供一些明确的支持。它也没有提供太多证据证明在梅什科一世或他的儿子和继任者勇敢的博尔斯拉夫(Boleslaw the Brave)统治下有大规模的基督教化计划。完全的基督教化要等到13世纪。
{"title":"The pace of the early Christianisation of the Piast lands","authors":"Przemysław Urbańczyk","doi":"10.35253/jaema.2020.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35253/jaema.2020.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"The traditional idea that the conversion of Mieszko I in 966 marked the conversion to Christianity of all of what we may consider to be Poland and its establishment as a nation is questioned in this paper. An examination of the archaeological record providess evidence of Christianity in the area before 966, which suggests that the date of 966 was selected to give some definitive support for the idea of Poland becoming civilised. It also does not provide much evidence of a massive programme of Christianisation under Mieszko I or his son and successor, Boleslaw the Brave. Full Christianisation had to wait until the thirteenth century.","PeriodicalId":38059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70028935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.35253/jaema.2020.1.22
Gillian Spalding-Stracey
Review(s) of: The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers, by Tannous, Jack, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018) hardcover, xiv + 647 pages, 4 b and w illustrations, RRP USD 39.95; ISBN: 9780691179094.
{"title":"The making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, society, and simple believers [Book Review]","authors":"Gillian Spalding-Stracey","doi":"10.35253/jaema.2020.1.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35253/jaema.2020.1.22","url":null,"abstract":"Review(s) of: The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers, by Tannous, Jack, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018) hardcover, xiv + 647 pages, 4 b and w illustrations, RRP USD 39.95; ISBN: 9780691179094.","PeriodicalId":38059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70029179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper looks at the impact of economic and social factors of contact with other peoples through trade and migration in the Christianisation of Scandinavia. It is argued that this was a slow process that operated on a number of different levels. The Carolingians and Ottonians supported one Scandinavian ruler against another, with baptism a condition of that support. Other evidence that can be found from runestones and skalds indicates that Christianisation was gaining ground by the eleventh century, although these sources of evidence are not without their own interpretive complications.
{"title":"The Christianisation of Scandinavia","authors":"J. Morawiec","doi":"10.35253/jaema.2020.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35253/jaema.2020.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"This paper looks at the impact of economic and social factors of contact with other peoples through trade and migration in the Christianisation of Scandinavia. It is argued that this was a slow process that operated on a number of different levels. The Carolingians and Ottonians supported one Scandinavian ruler against another, with baptism a condition of that support. Other evidence that can be found from runestones and skalds indicates that Christianisation was gaining ground by the eleventh century, although these sources of evidence are not without their own interpretive complications.","PeriodicalId":38059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70028881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Polish national identity has long been caught up with questions of Christianity and Catholicism, with some scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries arguing that a turn to Christianity in the tenth century was a turn away from a more glorious non- Christian identity and that ties with Catholicism rather than Orthodoxy was a betrayal of a Slavic heritage. The question of whether Catholicism has helped or hindered Poland is much debated and Polish history is read through the lens of this controversy, which itself is a product of Polish history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that has tended to downplay the significance of religion in political and social life and sought to understand Polish relationships with Germans and Russians. Appreciating this means that the question about when Poland became Christian admits of no straightforward answer.
{"title":"The baptism of Poland in historiography and the historical consciousness of the poles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries","authors":"Marek Cetwiński","doi":"10.35253/jaema.2020.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35253/jaema.2020.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"Polish national identity has long been caught up with questions of Christianity and Catholicism, with some scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries arguing that a turn to Christianity in the tenth century was a turn away from a more glorious non- Christian identity and that ties with Catholicism rather than Orthodoxy was a betrayal of a Slavic heritage. The question of whether Catholicism has helped or hindered Poland is much debated and Polish history is read through the lens of this controversy, which itself is a product of Polish history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that has tended to downplay the significance of religion in political and social life and sought to understand Polish relationships with Germans and Russians. Appreciating this means that the question about when Poland became Christian admits of no straightforward answer.","PeriodicalId":38059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70029038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.35253/jaema.2019.1.15
J. Kennedy
Review(s) of: The medieval cultures of the Irish sea and the North Sea: Manannan and his neighbors, by MacQuarrie, Charles W., and Nagy, Joseph Falaky Nagy (eds), (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019) hardcover, 212 pages, 1 map, 4 figures, RRP euro99; ISBN 9789462989399.
{"title":"The medieval cultures of the Irish sea and the North Sea: Manannan and his neighbors [Book Review]","authors":"J. Kennedy","doi":"10.35253/jaema.2019.1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35253/jaema.2019.1.15","url":null,"abstract":"Review(s) of: The medieval cultures of the Irish sea and the North Sea: Manannan and his neighbors, by MacQuarrie, Charles W., and Nagy, Joseph Falaky Nagy (eds), (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019) hardcover, 212 pages, 1 map, 4 figures, RRP euro99; ISBN 9789462989399.","PeriodicalId":38059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46989431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Analysis here of chapter 66 of 'Historia Brittonum' suggests that its chronology diverges less from that of Bede and 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' than previously believed. The author's own testimony demonstrates that he misunderstood the significance of Roman consuls. His belief that consuls, and not emperors, ruled Rome after 388 led him to delete twentyfour years from the reign of Valentinian III. This in turn shifted every date in chapter 66 back some two decades. But when this single error is corrected, 'Historia Brittonum's' chronology becomes much more consistent with that of other works of early Insular historiography. Most significant, this apparent convergence mandates a comprehensive re-examination of all the early written sources for post-Roman British history.
{"title":"Historia Brittonum and 'Saxon Annals': A case for convergence in the historiography of post-roman Britain","authors":"P. Edwin","doi":"10.35253/jaema.2019.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35253/jaema.2019.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Analysis here of chapter 66 of 'Historia Brittonum' suggests that its chronology diverges less from that of Bede and 'Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' than previously believed. The author's own testimony demonstrates that he misunderstood the significance of Roman consuls. His belief that consuls, and not emperors, ruled Rome after 388 led him to delete twentyfour years from the reign of Valentinian III. This in turn shifted every date in chapter 66 back some two decades. But when this single error is corrected, 'Historia Brittonum's' chronology becomes much more consistent with that of other works of early Insular historiography. Most significant, this apparent convergence mandates a comprehensive re-examination of all the early written sources for post-Roman British history.","PeriodicalId":38059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47340205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-11-01DOI: 10.35253/jaema.2019.1.14
Sam Leggett
Review(s) of: Burial, landscape and identity in Early Medieval Wessex, by Mees, Kate, (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2019) hardcover, 324 pages, RRP 60 pounds; ISBN 9781783274178.
{"title":"Burial, landscape and identity in Early Medieval Wessex [Book Review]","authors":"Sam Leggett","doi":"10.35253/jaema.2019.1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35253/jaema.2019.1.14","url":null,"abstract":"Review(s) of: Burial, landscape and identity in Early Medieval Wessex, by Mees, Kate, (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2019) hardcover, 324 pages, RRP 60 pounds; ISBN 9781783274178.","PeriodicalId":38059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41499072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review(s) of: Illuminated manuscripts and incucabula in Cambridge: A catalogue of western book illumination in the Fitzwilliam museum and the Cambridge colleges, part five: Illuminated incunabula, volume one: Books printed in Italy, by Andriolo, Azzura Elena and Reynolds, Suzanne, (London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2017) hardcover, 288 pages, RRP 149 pounds/Euro175; ISBN: 9781909400856.
{"title":"Illuminated manuscripts and incucabula in Cambridge: A catalogue of western book illumination in the Fitzwilliam museum and the Cambridge colleges, part five: Illuminated incunabula, volume one: Books printed in Italy [Book Review]","authors":"P. Nash","doi":"10.35253/jaema.2019.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35253/jaema.2019.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Review(s) of: Illuminated manuscripts and incucabula in Cambridge: A catalogue of western book illumination in the Fitzwilliam museum and the Cambridge colleges, part five: Illuminated incunabula, volume one: Books printed in Italy, by Andriolo, Azzura Elena and Reynolds, Suzanne, (London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2017) hardcover, 288 pages, RRP 149 pounds/Euro175; ISBN: 9781909400856.","PeriodicalId":38059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44393811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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