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Amnon Linder, professor of medieval history at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem has published two seminal studies in the
history of the Christian Holy Land and in Jewish-Christian
relations in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Jerusalem-Toronto,
1987 and 1997 respectively) but in recent years has dedicated
himself to the study of medieval liturgy, particularly Crusader
liturgy of the liberation and destruction of Jerusalem. The essays
gathered here from friends, colleagues and students of Prof. Linder
pick up the themes of Linder's publications - medieval law, liturgy
and literature. The papers deal with a variety of sources, and
encompass the fourth to fifteenth centuries, and span from the Holy
Land to the British Isles, and present different methodologies.
This book explores the Merovingian kingdoms in Gaul within a
broader Mediterranean context. Their politics and culture have
mostly been interpreted in the past through a narrow local
perspective, but as the papers in this volume clearly demonstrate,
the Merovingian kingdoms had complicated and multi-layered
political, religious, and socio-cultural relations with their
Mediterranean counterparts, from Visigothic Spain in the West to
the Byzantine Empire in the East, and from Anglo-Saxon England in
the North to North-Africa in the South. The papers collected here
provide new insights into the history of the Merovingian kingdoms
by examining various relevant issues, ranging from identity
formation to the shape and rules of diplomatic relations, cultural
transformation, as well as voiced attitudes towards the "other".
Each of the papers begins with a short excerpt from a primary
source, which serves as a stimulus for the discussion of broader
issues. The various sources' point of view and their
contextualization stand at the heart of the analysis, thus ensuring
that discussions are accessible to students and non-specialists,
without jeopardizing the high academic standard of the debate.
Diplomatic edition of interesting sacramentary from the Carolingian
period. This sacramentary, compiled at the abbey of Echternach
between 895 and 900, is one of the most interesting and unusual
examples from the Carolingian period. Unique in combining aspects
of Gregorian, Gelasian, and Old Gelasian sacramentaries, it also
has important implications for such matters as Carolingian
liturgical reforms, and it is a vital source for the study of the
local history of the abbey of Echternach itself. The Sacramentary,
with material appended to it (such as a list of the benefactors of
the abbey), is presented here in a diplomatic edition, with
introduction, notes and collation tables by the editor. YITZHAK HEN
is Lecturer in History at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,
Israel.
This book explores the Merovingian kingdoms in Gaul within a
broader Mediterranean context. Their politics and culture have
mostly been interpreted in the past through a narrow local
perspective, but as the papers in this volume clearly demonstrate,
the Merovingian kingdoms had complicated and multi-layered
political, religious, and socio-cultural relations with their
Mediterranean counterparts, from Visigothic Spain in the West to
the Byzantine Empire in the East, and from Anglo-Saxon England in
the North to North-Africa in the South. The papers collected here
provide new insights into the history of the Merovingian kingdoms
by examining various relevant issues, ranging from identity
formation to the shape and rules of diplomatic relations, cultural
transformation, as well as voiced attitudes towards the
“other”. Each of the papers begins with a short excerpt from a
primary source, which serves as a stimulus for the discussion of
broader issues. The various sources’ point of view and their
contextualization stand at the heart of the analysis, thus ensuring
that discussions are accessible to students and non-specialists,
without jeopardizing the high academic standard of the debate.
From their crystallisation in the late fifth century to their
ultimate decline in the eighth, the Merovingian kingdoms were a
product of a vibrant Mediterranean society with both a cultural
past and a dynamic and ongoing dialogue between the member
communities. By bringing together the scholarship of historians,
archaeologists, art historians, and manuscript researchers, this
volume examines the Merovingian world's Mediterranean connections.
The Franks' cultural horizons spanned not only the Latin-speaking
world, but also the Byzantine Empire, northern Europe, Sassanid
Persia, and, after the seventh century, a quickly ascendant Islamic
culture. Traces of a constant movement of people and cultural
artefacts through this world are ubiquitous. As simultaneous
consumers, adapters, and disseminators of culture, the degree to
which the Merovingian kingdoms were thought to engage with their
neighbours is re-evaluated as this volume analyses written
accounts, archaeological findings and artefacts to provide new
perspectives on Merovingian wide-ranging relations.
The Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end
of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a
unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a
plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was added. The
Missal is therefore highly regarded by liturgists; but,
additionally, medieval historians welcome the information to be
derived from material attached to the codex, which provides
valuable data about the role and education of priests in Francia at
that time, and indeed on their cultural and ideological background.
The breadth of specialist knowledge provided by the team of
scholars writing for this book enables the manuscript to be viewed
as a whole, not as a narrow liturgical study. Collectively, the
essays view the manuscript as physical object: they discuss the
contents, they examine the language, and they look at the cultural
context in which the codex was written.
The Bobbio Missal was copied in south-eastern Gaul around the end
of the seventh and beginning of the eighth century. It contains a
unique combination of a lectionary and a sacramentary, to which a
plethora of canonical and non-canonical material was added. The
Missal is therefore highly regarded by liturgists; but,
additionally, medieval historians welcome the information to be
derived from material attached to the codex, which provides
valuable data about the role and education of priests in Francia at
that time, and indeed on their cultural and ideological background.
The breadth of specialist knowledge provided by the team of
scholars writing for this book enables the manuscript to be viewed
as a whole, not as a narrow liturgical study. Collectively, the
essays view the manuscript as physical object: they discuss the
contents, they examine the language, and they look at the cultural
context in which the codex was written.
This volume investigates the ways in which people in the early Middle Ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) reshaped for present purposes. As well as written histories, also discussed are saints' lives, law codes, buildings, Biblical commentary, monastic foundations, canon law and oral traditions. This is the first book to investigate systematically this important topic.
This volume investigates the ways in which people in the early Middle Ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) reshaped for present purposes. As well as written histories, also discussed are saints' lives, law codes, buildings, Biblical commentary, monastic foundations, canon law and oral traditions. This is the first book to investigate systematically this important topic.
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