Writing the early Medieval West : studies in honour of Rosamond McKitterick

Far from the oral society it was once assumed to have been, early medieval Europe was fundamentally shaped by the written word. This book offers a pioneering collection of fresh and innovative studies on a wide range of topics, each one representing cutting-edge scholarship, and collectively setting the field on a new footing. Concentrating on the role of writing in mediating early medieval knowledge of the past, on the importance of surviving manuscripts as clues to the circulation of ideas and political and cultural creativity, and on the role that texts of different kinds played both in supporting and in subverting established power relations, these essays represent a milestone in studies of the early medieval written word. Writing the Early Medieval West pp i-ii Writing the Early Medieval West - Title page pp iii-iii Copyright page pp iv-iv Dedication pp v-vi Contents pp vii-viii Figures pp ix-ix Tables pp x-x Contributors pp xi-xii Preface pp xiii-xiv https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.001 Abbreviations pp xv-xvi 1 - Introduction: A Study in the Education of a Society? pp 1-12 By Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.002 Part I - Knowledge of the Past pp 13-112 2 - Flavius Josephus: The Most Influential Classical Historian of the Early Middle Ages pp 15-32 By Richard Matthew Pollard https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.003 3 - Bede and the Changing Image of Rome and the Romans pp 33-48 By Paul Hilliard https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.004 4 - Paul the Deacon and Rome pp 49-63 By Marios Costambeys https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.005 5 - History and (Selective) Memory: Articulating Community and Division in Folcuin’s Gesta abbatum Lobiensium pp 64-79 By Ingrid Rembold https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.006 6 - ‘Appropriate to the Religion of their Time’: Walahfrid’s Historicisation of the Liturgy pp 80-97 By Christina Pössel https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.007 7 - The Order of History: Liturgical Time and the Rhythms of the Past in Amalarius of Metz’s De ordine antiphonarii pp 98-112 By Graeme Ward https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.008 Part II - The Written Word in Early Medieval Europe: The View from the Manuscripts pp 113-182 8 - The Manuscript Evidence for Pharmacy in the Early Middle Ages pp 115-130 By Nicholas Everett https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.009 9 - Monte Cassino’s Network of Knowledge: The Earliest Manuscript Evidence pp 131-145 By Sven Meeder https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.010 10 - Strategies of Knowledge Organisation in Early Medieval Latin Glossary Miscellanies: The Example of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14388 pp 146-168 By Anna Dorofeeva https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.011 11 - ‘Dissonance of Speech, Consonance of Meaning’: The 862 Council of Aachen and the Transmission of Carolingian Conciliar Records pp 169-182 By Charles West https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.012 Part III - Texts and Early Medieval Rulers pp 183-260 12 - The Moorish Kingdoms and the Written Word: Three ‘Textual Communities’ in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Mauretania pp 185-202 By Andy Merrills https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.013 13 - When Liturgy Gets Out of Hand pp 203-212 By Yitzhak Hen https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.014 14 - The Formation of a European Identity: Revisiting Charlemagne’s Coinage pp 213-229 By Simon Coupland https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.015 15 - Queenship in Dispute: Fastrada, History and Law pp 230-247 By Matthew Innes https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.016 16 - Remembering and Forgetting Lothar I pp 248-260 By Elina Screen https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.017 Bibliography pp 261-300 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.018 Index of Manuscripts pp 301-302 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.019 General Index pp 303-316 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108182386.020 "This volume took its current form as the result of conversations between Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes, Elina Screen and Charles West at the Leeds International Medieval Congress in July 2015, and reflects the general desire of Rosamond McKitterick's students to mark her retirement in September 2016. "--