Yitzhak Hen

The uses of the past in the early Middle Ages

1. Introduction: using the past, interpreting the present, influencing the future Matthew Innes 2. Memory, identity and power in Lombard Italy Walter Pohl 3. Memory and narrative in the cult of the early Anglo-Saxon saints Catherine Cubitt 4. The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law: the Collectio vetus gallica and the Collectio hiberniensis Rob Meens 5. The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in eighth-century Italian monasticism Marios Costambeys 6. The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early middle ages Dominic Janes 7. The Franks as the new Israel? Education for an identity from Pippin to Charlemagne Mary Garrison 8. Political ideology in Carolingian historiography Rosamond McKitterick 9. The annals of Metz and the Merovingian past Yitzhak Hen 10. The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and Biblical historia for rulers Mayke de Jong 11. Teutons or Trojans? The Carolingians and the Germanic past Matthew Innes 12. A man for all seasons: Pacifus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past Cristina La Rocca.

Culture and Religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481-751

Although often depicted as a barbaric and uncivilized society, Merovingian Gaul was clearly a Christian society and a direct continuation of Roman civilization in terms of social standards, morals and culture. Using insights provided by social history, archaeology, palaeography and anthropology, this book studies the problem of Christianization in early medieval Gaul from a cultural point of view. The author does not confine himself to a functional analysis of various cultural and religious activities in Merovingian Gaul, but goes on to assess the consequences and implications of such activities for the people themselves, and for the subsequent developments in the Carolingian period.

Charlemagne’s Jihad

The so-called Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae is commonly associated with Charlemagne’s brutal campaign in Saxony during the years 782–785. This article reexamines the evidence concerning the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae, arguing that it should be associated with Charlemagne’s final campaign in Saxony (around 795), and that in order to understand the unusual policy it prescribes one should consider the Capitulatio against a broader political and cultural background. As suggested by the author, the Capitulatio’s policy did not emerge ex nihilo; it was deeply rooted in the political as well as the religious ideology that characterized Muslim Spain (al-Andalus) at the time.

The liturgy of St Willibrord

What type of liturgy did St Willibrord, the Anglo-Saxon apostle of Frisia (d. 739), use? This is one of the most intriguing questions which a liturgist or historian of this period can ask. In order to answer such a question one has to consider a series of problems concerning the liturgical background of Willibrord himself and, by implication, of his period. With what form of liturgy was Willibrord familiar before he embarked on his mission to Frisia? What liturgy did he find on the Continent when he arrived, and did he attempt to borrow anything from what he found? These and similar questions need to be asked before any clear and coherent picture of the type of liturgy used by Willibrord can be drawn, and since, unfortunately, they cannot be answered with utter certainty, this article will offer some thoughts on the matter, without attempting to provide a solution or a clear-cut answer.

The Early Medieval West

A curse tablet from fourth-century Attica exemplifies many aspects of what has come to be considered magic in Western thought/ Inscribed on a thick tablet. This chapter surveys the history of magic in Greece and Rome, up to and including the Republic, with the goal of illuminating both the emergence of magic as a discourse of alterity, or othering strategy, in Western thought. The corresponding influence this discourse had on the practice of rituals that came to be considered magic. Magic operated as a discourse of alterity that was part and parcel of the discourse of barbarism to marginalize certain people and practices, including peripatetic venders of cathartic healing, curse tablets, and unregulated domestic religion and womens control over it. The chapter also briefly surveys the debate among scholars of antiquity over defining magic and its use as a heuristic category for ancient societies in order to clarify how the operation of magic is understood as a social discourse.

The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages: Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: using the past, interpreting the present, influencing the future Matthew Innes 2. Memory, identity and power in Lombard Italy Walter Pohl 3. Memory and narrative in the cult of the early Anglo-Saxon saints Catherine Cubitt 4. The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law: the Collectio vetus gallica and the Collectio hiberniensis Rob Meens 5. The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in eighth-century Italian monasticism Marios Costambeys 6. The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early middle ages Dominic Janes 7. The Franks as the new Israel? Education for an identity from Pippin to Charlemagne Mary Garrison 8. Political ideology in Carolingian historiography Rosamond McKitterick 9. The annals of Metz and the Merovingian past Yitzhak Hen 10. The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and Biblical historia for rulers Mayke de Jong 11. Teutons or Trojans? The Carolingians and the Germanic past Matthew Innes 12. A man for all seasons: Pacifus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past Cristina La Rocca.

The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages: The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages

1. Introduction: using the past, interpreting the present, influencing the future Matthew Innes 2. Memory, identity and power in Lombard Italy Walter Pohl 3. Memory and narrative in the cult of the early Anglo-Saxon saints Catherine Cubitt 4. The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law: the Collectio vetus gallica and the Collectio hiberniensis Rob Meens 5. The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in eighth-century Italian monasticism Marios Costambeys 6. The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early middle ages Dominic Janes 7. The Franks as the new Israel? Education for an identity from Pippin to Charlemagne Mary Garrison 8. Political ideology in Carolingian historiography Rosamond McKitterick 9. The annals of Metz and the Merovingian past Yitzhak Hen 10. The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and Biblical historia for rulers Mayke de Jong 11. Teutons or Trojans? The Carolingians and the Germanic past Matthew Innes 12. A man for all seasons: Pacifus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past Cristina La Rocca.

The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages: Index

1. Introduction: using the past, interpreting the present, influencing the future Matthew Innes 2. Memory, identity and power in Lombard Italy Walter Pohl 3. Memory and narrative in the cult of the early Anglo-Saxon saints Catherine Cubitt 4. The uses of the Old Testament in early medieval canon law: the Collectio vetus gallica and the Collectio hiberniensis Rob Meens 5. The transmission of tradition: Gregorian influence and innovation in eighth-century Italian monasticism Marios Costambeys 6. The world and its past as Christian allegory in the early middle ages Dominic Janes 7. The Franks as the new Israel? Education for an identity from Pippin to Charlemagne Mary Garrison 8. Political ideology in Carolingian historiography Rosamond McKitterick 9. The annals of Metz and the Merovingian past Yitzhak Hen 10. The empire as ecclesia: Hrabanus Maurus and Biblical historia for rulers Mayke de Jong 11. Teutons or Trojans? The Carolingians and the Germanic past Matthew Innes 12. A man for all seasons: Pacifus of Verona and the creation of a local Carolingian past Cristina La Rocca.