Visions of Medieval History in North America and Europe: Studies on Cultural Identity and Power (Cursor Mundi, 41) (English and French Edition)

Explores the formation of local and universal cultural dynamics that powerfully shaped Europe from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages.00In this volume, scholars from North America and Europe explore the intersection of medieval identity with ethnicity, religion, power, law, inheritance, texts, and memory. They offer new historiographical interventions into questions of identity, but also of ethnonyms, conflict studies, the feudal revolution, gender and kinship studies, and local history. Employing interdisciplinary approaches and textual hermeneutics, the authors represent an international scholarly community characterized by intellectual restlessness, historiographical experimentation, and defiance of convention. Front Matter 5 Ethnic Identities 5 Hans Hummer, Courtney M. Booker, and Dana M. Polanichka. Introduction 9 Ethnic Identities 29 Jean-Pierre Poly. Se dépouiller du vieil homme. Identités barbares dans l’empire romain tardif 31 Helmut Reimitz. Observing Peoples as Peoples. The Study of Ethnicity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages 63 Herwig Wolfram. The King of the Nemítzioi and his Neighbours to the East 83 Inheritance and Identity 105 Edward M. Schoolman. Inheriting Identity and Constructing History in Medieval Ravenna 107 Sarah Whitten. Secundum Legem. Gender, Law, and Ethnicity in Early Medieval Southern Italian Documents 129 Hans Hummer. Kinship and Inheritance in Early Medieval Europe 151 Religious Identities 169 Carrie E. Beneš. The Blackbird, the Basilisk, and the Evicted Corpse. Sacralizing Landscape in Jacopo da Varagine’s Genoese Relic Treatises 171 Boris A. Todorov. Hagiographyas Political Theology. A Mid-Fourteenth-Century Case from Bulgaria 191 Dana M. Polanichka. The Crumbs of the Crumbs. Dhuoda and the Mid-Ninth-Century Carolingian Church 215 Geoffrey Koziol. Pragmatic Sanctions? The Peace of God and its Carolingian Antecedents 257 Legal and Political Identities 255 Warren Brown. Violence in Early Capetian v. Early Valois France. Same Behaviour, Different Ideas of Order? 287 Cosmin Popa-Gorjanu. Anti-Corruption Measures in the Legislation of Thirteenth-Century Hungary 307 Memories, Texts, and Identities 333 Maya Maskarinec. Invoking Gregory on the Caelian in Medieval Rome. A Study of an Inscription at SS. Giovanni e Paolo 335 John Eldevik. (Re)Visions of the World. Prester John in Twelfth-Century Bavaria 357 Courtney M. Booker. An Alleged Oratio of Boniface to Pippin in 751 379 Back Matter 421 Explores the formation of local and universal cultural dynamics that powerfully shaped Europe from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages. In this volume, scholars from North America and Europe explore the intersection of medieval identity with ethnicity, religion, power, law, inheritance, texts, and memory. They offer new historiographical interventions into questions of identity, but also of ethnonyms, conflict studies, the feudal revolution, gender and kinship studies, and local history. Employing interdisciplinary approaches and textual hermeneutics, the authors represent an international scholarly community characterized by intellectual restlessness, historiographical experimentation, and defiance of convention