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Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe
What did medieval authors know about their world? Were they parochial and focused on just their monastery, town, or kingdom? Or were they aware of the broader medieval Europe that modern historians write about? This collection brings the focus back to medieval authors to see how they described their world. While we see that each author certainly had their own biases, the vast majority of them did not view the world as constrained to their small piece of it. Instead, they talked about the wider world, and often they had informants or textual sources that informed them about the world, even if they did not visit it themselves. This volume shows that they also used similar ideas to create space and identity – whether talking about the desert, the holy land, or food practices in their texts. By examining medieval authors and their own perceptions of their world, this collection offers a framework for discussions of medieval Europe in the twenty-first century.
Christian Raffensperger is the Kenneth E. Wray Chair in the Humanities at Wittenberg University, as well as a Professor and Chair of History. His work focuses on connecting eastern Europe into the larger medieval European world, as seen in Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ and the Medieval World (2012) and Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe (2018).
Contributors
Bjørn Bandlien is Professor in medieval history at the University of SouthEastern Norway. He has published on gender, crusades, intellectual culture, and cultural encounters in the Middle Ages, with a special focus on Scandinavia. Recent publications include studies on trade with, and images of, Saracens, Russians, and the Sámi in medieval Norway; diplomatic relations between the Norwegian kingdom and Armenians; and marginality and memory cultures in medieval Scandinavia. Erin Thomas Dailey is Associate Professor of Late Antique and Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester and Principal Investigator for the ERC-CG-funded project on ‘Domestic Slavery and Sexual Exploitation in the Greater Mediterranean, AD 300-900’ (DoSSE101001429). His publications include the monograph Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite (Brill, 2015) and the forthcoming biography, Radegund, Queen and Saint (c. 522–587) (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Hannah Ewing is Associate Professor of History at Rollins College in Florida, where she teaches Mediterranean history. She holds a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on twelfth-century Byzantine cultural and religious history. Recent projects have focused on episcopal and monastic administration, as well as Constantinopolitan cultural elites. Inés García de la Puente, Boston University, has studied communication routes and the transmission of narratives in Rus’, as well as bilingual authors of much more recent times. She is at work on a project that conceptualizes translation as a mode of literary production in and beyond the written text in early Rus’. Jitske Jasperse is Assistant Professor of Kunst- und Bildgeschichte at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and part of the Spanish-funded project The Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond led by Therese Martin. Driven by the question of why and how people engage with artefacts, both precious and mundane, she has a particular interest in the relationship between material culture, women, and gender. She recently published her book Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power: Matilda Plantagenet and Her Sisters (Arc Humanities Press, 2020) and co-edited with Karen Dempsey Small Things of Greater Importance: Exploring the Sensory Relationship of Medieval People and Objects, a special issue of Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung (2020).
Kurt Villads Jensen, Department of History, Stockholm University, is Professor in medieval history working on cultural encounters in the middle ages, church history, and the justification for and actual use of violence in missionary wars. He has compared the crusades in the Baltic and on the Iberian Peninsula, and crusades as regulated warfare or as indiscriminate killing. David Kalhous studied history and historical auxiliary sciences in MasarykUniversity, Brno, Czech Republic, where he also received his Ph.D. in Medieval history (2006, published as Anatomy of a Duchy by Brill 2012). In 2015, he defended his “habilitation” in history in Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic (published 2018 as Bohemi by Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften). He worked in different academic and research positions in the Czech Republic (Silesian University in Opava; Institute of Archaeology Brno, Czech Academy of Sciences; Masaryk-University) and Austria (Institute for Medieval Research, Austriuan Academy of Sciences, Vienna). His research is primarily focused on Central Europe in the Middle Ages and its political history, identities, medieval historiography and hagiography, and social history.
Amy Livingstone is the Head of the School of History and Heritage and Professor of History at the University of Lincoln. She is a scholar of medieval Europe, and her research focuses on the aristocracy of medieval France, particularly women and the family. She is the author of Out of Love for My Kin: Aristocratic Family Life in the Lands of the Loire, 1000– 1200, Medieval Lives, c. 1000–1292: The World of the Beaugency Family, as well as many articles and essays. In 2017, she received the Medieval Academy of America/Committee on Centers and Regional Associations Teaching Excellence Award. Dr Livingstone is also the co-editor of Medieval People and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Christian Lübke is Director of the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe as well as Professor of central and eastern European history at the University of Leipzig. He has edited numerous collections and authored multiple monographs, almost all dealing with the situation of the Slavs in eastern Europe.
Paul Milliman is an Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Arizona. His research and teaching focus on games and food in medieval European and early world history. He also works on the making of Europe in the global middle ages and is particularly interested in medieval and early modern western European perceptions of eastern Europe. Stacey E. Murrell is an advanced doctoral candidate at Brown University. Her work is centred on the western Mediterranean across the middle ages, with a particular emphasis on the relationship(s) between gender, sexuality, and power. Her dissertation examines concubinage from the perspective of its role in rulership in the polities of Iberia, North Africa, Sicily, and Naples. She is also concerned with concubinage’s later representation in visual culture, which draws on her museum background and interest in the ways that the public engages with the medieval past. She received her B.A. from Macalester College in 2013 and her M.A. from the University of Chicago in 2014.
Lucy K. Pick is a historian of medieval Iberia with an interest in the relationships between gender, sexuality, power, and religion. Her recent book, Her Father’s Daughter: Gender, Power, and Religion in the Early Spanish Kingdoms, considers what the lives of royal daughters, consecrated to religion, reveal about structures of power and the roles of gender and religion. Her first novel, Pilgrimage, published in 2014, is a story about the Middle Ages that explores betrayal, friendship, illness, miracles, healing, and redemption on the road to Compostela. Christian Raffensperger is Professor and Chair of History at Wittenberg University. His work focuses on the interactions between eastern Europe (broadly construed) and the rest of the medieval European world. His publications include Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World (Harvard 2012) and most recently Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe (Lexington 2017).
Teresa Shawcross is the Associate Professor History and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, and a senior member of Robinson College, Cambridge University. She has written on the Crusades, the Byzantine Empire, and the interactions between the Mediterranean and Central Asia. Publications include: The Chronicle of Morea: Historiography in Crusader Greece (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2009) and Reading in the Byzantine Empire and Beyond, with Ida Toth (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge: 2018). She is currently completing a monograph on the idea and practice of empire in the late medieval period. Panos Sophoulis received his doctoral degree (D.Phil) from Oxford University and is now Associate Professor at the University of Athens. His research interests cover a wide range of issues in the field of medieval studies,including the relations between Byzantium and its Slav neighbours, social and political institutions in the Medieval Balkans, the history of nomadic peoples in southeastern Europe, and Balkan historiography. He is the author of Byzantium and Bulgaria, 775–831 (Brill: Leiden/Boston 2012) and Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500 (Palgrave Macmillan: Cham 2020) Frederick Suppe, a former president of the Celtic Studies Association of North America, has published scholarship about military institutions along the Anglo-Welsh Marches, castle-garrisoning, decapitation in English and Welsh societies, Anglo-Welsh interpreters, Anglo-Welsh intermarriage, and prosopographical studies of the medieval Welsh ethnic nicknames Sais (Englishman) and Gwyddel (Irishman).
Rebecca Thomas is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Cardiff University, specializing in the construction of ethnic identities in the Middle Ages. She obtained her doctorate from the Department of AngloSaxon, Norse, and Celtic (University of Cambridge) in 2015, examining the construction of Welsh identities in ninth- and tenth-century texts. Her current research investigates the presentation of connections between Wales and the wider world in the Middle Ages.
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