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Clark, Amy C., “The West Saxon boundary clause in context: Celtic and Continental connections”, Early Medieval Europe 31:1 (February, 2023): 69–94.
abstract:
The perambulatory boundary clause in England originated as a West Saxon phenomenon in the eighth century, most likely through connections with the early Celtic church, and spread with the rise of the West Saxon kings. Vernacular perambulatory charter bounds occur throughout England after the tenth century – but before 800, they appear only in Wessex, and on the Continent where West Saxons were initially installed as missionaries, in an early Latin–vernacular form. The West Saxon roots of Boniface and his followers may thus explain the presence of early perambulatory bounds in Frankish archives.
Guy, Ben, “The earliest Welsh genealogies: textual layering and the phenomenon of ‘pedigree growth’”, Early Medieval Europe 26:4 (November, 2018): 462–485. URL: <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/emed.12296>
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This article examines the ways in which early medieval genealogical texts might be augmented over time in order to reflect changing political situations. Two early ninth‐century tracts from the kingdoms of Powys and Dyfed in Wales are taken as case studies. Textual and chronological problems with the tracts are discussed, and contexts are proposed for the circumstances of their composition. It is suggested that each of these tracts stands at the head of a process of ‘pedigree growth’, whereby, during the course of textual transmission, the genealogical content of each tract was extended both backwards and forwards in time.
Edmonds, Fiona, “The expansion of the kingdom of Strathclyde”, Early Medieval Europe 23:1 (February, 2015): 43–66.
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The kingdom of Strathclyde was focused on the Clyde valley and ruled by a Brittonic-speaking dynasty. Historians have traditionally argued that the kingdom expanded southwards in the early tenth century, with the result that there was a revival of Brittonic language. Several scholars have recently challenged this interpretation, but in this article I defend the view that Strathclyde expanded southwards, and I propose a new model for the process. I argue that the kings of Strathclyde took submissions from the local nobility, who included Northumbrian and Gaelic-Scandinavian magnates. This accounts for the multicultural nature of the kingdom in its heyday.
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Mac Carron, Máirín, “Bede, Irish computistica and annus Mundi”, Early Medieval Europe 23:3 (August, 2015): 290–307.
abstract:
Bede’s decision to diverge from the mainstream chronological tradition, based on the Septuagint, in favour of the Vulgate for chronology has generally been explained by his concerns about contemporary apocalypticism. This essay will argue that Bede’s choice of Annus Mundi was also greatly influenced by Irish computistica. These texts incorporate a chronological framework – influenced by Victorius of Aquitaine’s Easter Table – that was implicitly and explicitly apocalyptic and provided a date for the Passion that Bede objected to. Bede was greatly indebted to Irish computistica but adopting the Vulgate Annus Mundi allowed him to assert his own views on chronology.
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Ross, Alasdair, “ [Review of: Fraser, James E., From Caledonia to Pictland: Scotland to 795, The New Edinburgh History of Scotland, 1, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.]”, Early Medieval Europe 18:3 (2010): 351–353.
Fraser, James E., “St Columba and the convention at Druimm Cete: peace and politics at seventh-century Iona”, Early Medieval Europe 15:3 (2007): 315–334.
Meeder, Sven, “The early Irish Stowe Missal’s destination and function”, Early Medieval Europe 13 (2005): 179–194.
Borsje, Jacqueline, “ [Review of: Wooding, Jonathan M. (ed.), The Otherworld voyage in early Irish literature. An anthology of criticism, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000.]”, Early Medieval Europe 12 (2003): 86–88.
Mc Carthy, Daniel P., “The chronology and sources of the early Irish annals”, Early Medieval Europe 10:3 (2001): 323–341.
abstract:
The chronology of much of the Irish annals has hitherto been most uncertain, particularly from the fifth to the eighth century, which has seriously hindered their use as historical sources. This paper demonstrates that the oldest chronological apparatus preserved in these annals is the kalend-plus-ferial and, further, that the ferial data recorded in the Annals of Tigernach and Chronicon Scotorum may be restored and constitute a cogent sequence from the Incarnation up to the middle of the seventh century. When this chronology is calibrated using events for which we have independent chronological information, it emerges that thirteen kalends were removed from the Iona Chronicle between the Anno Domini years 424–664, and thus we may recover the original chronology of that chronicle. Collation of this chronology with those of the Annals of Ulster and the Annals of Inisfallen shows that both preserve derivative and corrupted chronologies; this collation has been made available on the World Wide Web at http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Dan.McCarthy/chronology/synchronisms/annals-chron.htm.
Garrison, Mary, “Letters to a king and biblical exempla: the examples of Cathuulf and Clemens Peregrinus”, Early Medieval Europe 7 (1998): 305–328.
Jaski, Bart, “Early medieval Irish kingship and the Old Testament”, Early Medieval Europe 7 (1998): 329–344.
Scharer, Anton, “The writing of history at King Alfred’s court”, Early Medieval Europe 5:2 (1996): 177–206.
Eastwood, Bruce S., “The astronomy of Macrobius in Carolingian Europe: Dungal's letter of 811 to Charles the Great”, Early Medieval Europe 3:2 (1994): 117–134.
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