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Living in a Carolingian World
Series: - Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, Volume: 33
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Living in a Carolingian World invites you to look beyond kings, bishops, and court politics to explore the diverse historical experiences and conceptions of the Carolingian non-elite. Through case studies and new research, this volume presents a range of Carolingian worlds that demonstrate the diversity of early medieval society. From agricultural laborers to criminal priests, from ideas about how the non-elite understood weather magic to how they suffered from the abuses of Frankish officials and armed men, this volume offers a fresh exploration of the Carolingian Empire.
Contributors are: Alexandre Beaudet, Marios Costambeys, Simon Coupland, Jan van Doren, Valerie L. Garver, Kelly Gibson, Eric J. Goldberg, Thomas A. E. Greene, Laura A. Hohman, David Patterson, Martha Rampton, Carine van Rhijn, Elina Screen, Rachel Stone, and Josh Timmermann.
Contributors are: Alexandre Beaudet, Marios Costambeys, Simon Coupland, Jan van Doren, Valerie L. Garver, Kelly Gibson, Eric J. Goldberg, Thomas A. E. Greene, Laura A. Hohman, David Patterson, Martha Rampton, Carine van Rhijn, Elina Screen, Rachel Stone, and Josh Timmermann.
Valerie L. Garver, Ph.D. (2003), is Chair and Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. In addition to Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World (2009, Cornell University Press), she has published articles on early medieval women, childhood, and material culture, especially textiles.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Valerie L. Garver
Part 1 Interacting with Authorities
1 Life in a Royal Landscape: Evidence from Ninth-Century Carolingian Royal Charters
Elina Screen
2 Pain and Power: Labor and Lordship on a Carolingian Estate
Thomas A. E. Greene
3 Rapine, the Common People, and the Capitulary of Ver (884)
Eric J. Goldberg
4 De viduis, pupillis, et pauperibus: Legal Vulnerability and (Un)equal Access to Justice in the Carolingian World
Jan van Doren
5 On the Margins of the City of God: Reading and Using Augustine’s De civitate Dei (as historia) in the Carolingian World
Josh Timmermann
6 Bacchus and Cyclops: Wine Drinkers, Vine Growers, and Ecclesiastical Distinction in Carolingian Europe
Marios Costambeys
7 A Criminal World of Carolingian Priests
Rachel Stone
8 Imagining Resilience: Weather Magic in the Carolingian Countryside
David J. Patterson
Part 2 Engaging in Everyday Life
9 The Medium and the Message: Coins in the Carolingian World
Simon Coupland
10 Factors Influencing Travel Distances of Visually Impaired Pilgrims in Ninth-Century Miracle Collections
Kelly Gibson
11 Compiled Christianity: a Pastoral Miscellany Case-Study of Carolingian Correctio and Community
Laura A. Hohman
12 A Carolingian World of Children and Saints
Valerie L. Garver
13 Mixed Messages: Carolingian Healing Manuals
Martha Rampton
14 From Craftsmen to the Elite: Relations of Exchange in Carolingian Central Places
Alexandre Beaudet
Afterword: One World, Many Worlds
Carine van Rhijn
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Valerie L. Garver
Part 1 Interacting with Authorities
1 Life in a Royal Landscape: Evidence from Ninth-Century Carolingian Royal Charters
Elina Screen
2 Pain and Power: Labor and Lordship on a Carolingian Estate
Thomas A. E. Greene
3 Rapine, the Common People, and the Capitulary of Ver (884)
Eric J. Goldberg
4 De viduis, pupillis, et pauperibus: Legal Vulnerability and (Un)equal Access to Justice in the Carolingian World
Jan van Doren
5 On the Margins of the City of God: Reading and Using Augustine’s De civitate Dei (as historia) in the Carolingian World
Josh Timmermann
6 Bacchus and Cyclops: Wine Drinkers, Vine Growers, and Ecclesiastical Distinction in Carolingian Europe
Marios Costambeys
7 A Criminal World of Carolingian Priests
Rachel Stone
8 Imagining Resilience: Weather Magic in the Carolingian Countryside
David J. Patterson
Part 2 Engaging in Everyday Life
9 The Medium and the Message: Coins in the Carolingian World
Simon Coupland
10 Factors Influencing Travel Distances of Visually Impaired Pilgrims in Ninth-Century Miracle Collections
Kelly Gibson
11 Compiled Christianity: a Pastoral Miscellany Case-Study of Carolingian Correctio and Community
Laura A. Hohman
12 A Carolingian World of Children and Saints
Valerie L. Garver
13 Mixed Messages: Carolingian Healing Manuals
Martha Rampton
14 From Craftsmen to the Elite: Relations of Exchange in Carolingian Central Places
Alexandre Beaudet
Afterword: One World, Many Worlds
Carine van Rhijn
Index
This volume will appeal to early medievalists, medieval historians, and social historians with an interest in topics such as childhood, disability, and labor.