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The European Countryside during the Migration Period
Research on late antique and early medieval migrations has long acknowledged the importance of interdisciplinarity. The field is constantly nourished by new archaeological discoveries that allow for increasingly refined pictures of socio-economic development. Yet the perspectives adopted by historians and archaeologists are frequently different, and so are their conclusions. Diverging views exist in respect to varying geographical areas and scholarly traditions too. This volume brings together history and archaeology to address the impact of the inflow and outflow of migrations on the rural landscape, the creation of new settlement patterns, and the role of migrations and mobility in transforming society and economy. Such themes are often investigated under a regional or macro-regional viewpoint, resulting in too fragmented an understanding of a widespread phenomenon. Spanning Eastern and Western Europe, the book takes steps toward an integrated picture of territories normally investigated as separate entities, and critically establishes grounds for new comparisons and models on late antique and early medieval transformations.
Economic Circularity in the Roman and Early Medieval Worlds
Economic circularity is the ability of a society to reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products. This concept has gained momentum in academia, in part due to contemporary environmental concerns. Although the blurry conceptual boundaries of this term are open to a wide array of interpretations, the scholarly community generally perceives circular economy as a convenient umbrella definition that encompasses a vast array of regenerative and preservative processes. Despite the recent surge of interest, economic circularity has not been fully addressed as a macrophenomenon by historical and archaeological studies. The limitations of data and the relativel...
Hariulf’s History of St Riquier
A new and accessible translation of Hariulf’s History of St Riquier, this book examines the history of a monastic community from the seventh to the eleventh century. It covers the ascetic life of the founding saint and the development of the community under the Carolingians in the late eighth and ninth centuries. There were setbacks when the house was sacked by the Vikings and the founder’s relics were stolen for political ends, but it recovered in the tenth and eleventh centuries and developed the links with both the Norman and English courts that enable Hariulf to make interesting observations about the Norman Conquest of England. Hariulf’s description of the monastic site with its three churches and the liturgical arrangements practised there, as well as the relics, treasures, books and endowments of a great monastic foundation, make his history an important source for monastic history.
Estate Management Around Florence and Lucca 1000-1250
This book examines the forms of estate management in the countryside of Florence and Lucca between the eleventh and the middle of the thirteenth centuries. It argues that their change reflects wider transformations of medieval economic patterns, and specifically the surge in overall demand that occurred in the decades bridging the twelfth and the thirteenth centuries. The reasons for a comparison between the Florentine and the Lucchese countryside lie in the alleged differences of their historical evolution--as it has been outlined by scholars so far. The so-called manorial system (sistema curtense) is believed to have ceased to exist in the Lucchesia around the beginning of the tenth centur...
De inventieve middeleeuwen
Wat doe je als je buikpijn krijgt van de verbouwings-stress? Hoe bereid je je voor op een lange reis? Wat doe je om ruzie op te lossen, hoe zorg je dat je sieraden er duurder uitzien dan ze zijn, en op welke manieren kun je proberen om het noodlot naar je hand te zetten? De middeleeuwen, en al helemaal de periode voor het jaar 1000, staan niet bepaald bekend als een tijd van grote kennis en kunde. Maar is dat wel terecht? Voor dit boek zijn bijna twintig specialisten op het gebied van de vroegmiddeleeuwse geschiedenis de vaak meer dan 1000 jaar oude manuscripten ingedoken om te laten zien hoe er in deze tijd op praktische en inventieve wijze werd omgegaan met alledaagse vraagstukken. Dat leidt tot verhalen die herkenbaar maar soms ook vreemd zijn: alledaagse problemen van duizend jaar geleden zijn vaak niet heel anders dan de onze, maar dat geldt lang niet altijd voor de oplossingen.
Divine Assemblies in Early Greek and Babylonian Epic
In early Greek and Near Eastern myth and religion, the gods govern the cosmos. In narrative poetry, they are frequently portrayed through scenes of divine assembly. Did Homer and early Greek poets inherit this feature from their more ancient neighbours? And what can comparison tell us besides? This book is the first to chart divine assembly scenes in ancient Babylonian and early Greek epic. It asks why similarities between the two corpora exist, and exploits those similarities to enhance understanding of Mesopotamian and early Greek literature and religion. The book discusses Sumerian narrative poems, the Akkadian works Atra-ḫasīs, Anzû, Enūma eliš, Erra and Išum and the Epic of Gilga...
Milites elegantes. Le strutture aristocratiche nel territorio lucchese (800-1100 c.)
Lucca occupa un posto speciale nella storia e nella storiografia dell’alto e pieno medioevo, italiano ed europeo. Fu il cuore di un organismo politico della galassia carolingia, la marca di Tuscia, che conobbe un’eccezionale fortuna, restando vitale fino a quasi tutto il secolo XI. Costituisce, d’altra parte, uno dei contesti meglio illuminati dalle fonti: la documentazione sul territorio lucchese dall’inizio del secolo VIII è straordinariamente cospicua e continua. Di qui discende la scelta di questo caso di studio per tornare a riflettere su trasformazioni storiche di portata generale. Prendendo le mosse da una ricerca sistematica sulle fonti documentarie lucchesi, un bacino talme...
Die Dukate des Merowingerreiches
Germanische Altertumskunde Online (Germanic Antiquity Studies Online) – just like the Reallexikon that has merged with it – is accompanied by supplementary volumes. This series comprises both monographs and edited volumes on specific topics from the fields of archaeology, history, and literary studies. It thus expands the database with the inclusion of aspects that require comprehensive analysis. More than 100 volumes have now appeared, from Germanenproblemen in heutiger Sicht (The Problems of Germanic Peoples from a Contemporary Perspective) to Germanische Altertumskunde im Wandel (Germanic Antiquity Studies in Flux).
Economic Circularity in the Roman and Early Medieval Worlds
Develops and expands current research into the concept of economic circularity, whereby societies reduce waste by recycling, reusing, and repairing raw materials and finished products.
The European Countryside during the Migration Period
Research on late antique and early medieval migrations has long acknowledged the importance of interdisciplinarity. The field is constantly nourished by new archaeological discoveries that allow for increasingly refined pictures of socio-economic development. Yet the perspectives adopted by historians and archaeologists are frequently different, and so are their conclusions. Diverging views exist in respect to varying geographical areas and scholarly traditions too. This volume brings together history and archaeology to address the impact of the inflow and outflow of migrations on the rural landscape, the creation of new settlement patterns, and the role of migrations and mobility in transforming society and economy. Such themes are often investigated under a regional or macro-regional viewpoint, resulting in too fragmented an understanding of a widespread phenomenon. Spanning Eastern and Western Europe, the book takes steps toward an integrated picture of territories normally investigated as separate entities, and critically establishes grounds for new comparisons and models on late antique and early medieval transformations.
