Europe in the 11th century

Episode 12: medieval Europe in China, with Longguo Li and Yin Liu

In this episode, I’m joined by Longguo Li [http://scholar.pku.edu.cn/lilongguo] (Associate Professor at Peking University) and Yin Liu [https://zju.academia.edu/YinLiu] (Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University) to talk about how early medieval European history is studied in China today. We discuss Longguo’s recent article on medieval historiography, why historians in China are so interested in the Carolingian Empire, the translation of the Venerable Bede into Chinese, and the ‘Latin Revolution’ that’s taken place in China in recent years. Works mentioned in the podcast: Longguo Li, ‘“From “walking” to “sitting”: Changes in the practices of European historiography from ancient to medieval times’, Chinese Studies in History [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00094633.2020.1713683] 53:2 (2020), 93-106 Yin Liu, ‘Baptismal renunciation and the moral reform of Charlemagne's Christian empire’, Traditio [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/traditio/article/abs/baptismal-renunciation-and-the-moral-reform-of-charlemagnes-christian-empire/67CF88CDBB2B01ED48F501C366193661] vol. 76 (2021) p. 117-155 Ernst Kantorowicz, The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology (1957) Music: Karen Gomyo (CC BY-NC 3.0) Image: the Venerable Bede at work https://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de/bke/0047/1v Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 11: al-Andalus with Bruna Soravia (Italy)

How did government actually work in al-Andalus? In this episode, I discuss the kitaba, or 'art of the secretary', with Bruna Soravia. What did these secretaries (kuttab) do for rulers in eleventh-century Muslim Iberia? And how has the historiography of al-Andalus changed in recent years? Works mentioned in the podcast: * Umberto Bongianino,The Manuscript Tradition of the Islamic West Maghribi Round Scripts and the Andalusi Identity [https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-manuscript-tradition-of-the-islamic-west.html], forthcoming * Umberto Bongianino, "A Rediscovered Almoravid Qurʾān in the Bavarian State Library, Munich (Cod. arab. 4) [https://brill.com/view/journals/jim/11/3/article-p263_1.xml?language=en]", Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 11 (2020) * Pierre Guichard and Bruna Soravia,Les royaumes de taifas: apogée culturel et déclin politique des émirats andalous du XIe siècle(2007) * Bruna Soravia, 'Secretaries and the running of government [Secretaries and the running of government]', inThe Routledge Handbook of Muslim Iberia, ed. Maribel Fierro (2020), pp 271-289 * Bruna Soravia,La maîtrise de l'art de la prose d'Ibn ʿAbd al-Gafūr al-Kalāʿī, forthcoming Music: Karen Gomyo (CC BY-NC 3.0) Image: Munich BSB Cod. arab [https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb00117587?page=13]. 4, p. 13 (CC-BY-NC 4.0) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 10: state formation in north-western Iberia with Alvaro Carvajal (Spain)

Northwestern Iberia is renowned amongst medievalists for its wealth of charters. In this episode, I talk to Alvaro Carvajal Castro about how historians are using these documents in concert with archaeology to investigate social and political changes in the 10th and 11th centuries, as kings and elites increasingly intruded upon long-established peasant communities. Works mentioned in the podcast Carvajal Castro, Alvaro, 'Early Medieval Commons? Or How the History of Early Medieval Europe Could Benefit from a Necessary Conversation: The Case From NW Iberia',International Journal of the Commons, 15(1) (2021), 338–353. DOI:http://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1109 [http://doi.org/10.5334/ijc.1109] Carvajal Castro, Álvaro and Tejerizo-García, Carlos (eds.),El Estado y la Alta Edad Media(Bilbao, Forthcoming). Davies, Wendy,Windows on Justice in Northern Iberia, 800-1000 (London, 2016) Escalona, Julio, and Iñaki Martín Viso. "The Life and Death of an Historiographical Folly: The Early Medieval Depopulation And Repopulation of the Duero Basin." In Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711–1085), edited by Simon Barton and Robert Portass, 21-51. Leiden: Brill, 2020. Quirós Castillo, Juan Antonio. "An Archaeology of “Small Worlds”: Social Inequality in Early Medieval Iberian Rural Communities." Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 12, no. 1 (2020): 3-27. Music: Karen Gomyo (CC BY-NC 3.0) Image: Escorial Beatus, B_Escorial_a.jpg (1650×1928) (wikimedia.org) [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/B_Escorial_a.jpg] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 9: monasticism with Steven Vanderputten (Belgium)

What does the eleventh century mean for monastic history? In this podcast, I'm joined by Professor Steven Vanderputten to talk about his latest research on monastic leadership and collaboration around the year 1000. Works mentioned in the podcast: Bruce, Scott and Vanderputten, Steven, eds., A Companion to the Abbey of Clunyin the Middle Ages [https://brill.com/view/title/60802?language=en] (2022) Lawrence, C.H.,Medieval Monasticism. Forms of religious life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages(London, 1989) Vanderputten, Steven, "'Columbanus wore a single cowl, not a double one": The "Vita deicoli" and the legacy of Columbanian monasticism at the turn of the first millenium' [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/traditio/article/abs/columbanus-wore-a-single-cowl-not-a-double-one-the-vita-deicoli-and-the-legacy-of-columbanian-monasticism-at-the-turn-of-the-first-millennium/2F9E2EBFDF3D05923FCB59B924EA05D8],Traditio76 (2021) p. 157-184 Vanderputten, Steven, '"Against the Custom": Hagiographical Rewriting and Female Abbatial Leadership at Mid-Eleventh-Century Remiremont' [https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.JMMS.5.125358];Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies10 (2021), 41-66 Vanderputten, Steven, Medieval monasticisms: forms and experiences of the monastic life in the Latin West [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110543780/html?lang=en](2020) Vanderputten, Steven, 'Pope Leo IX and the (Quasi-)Canonization of St Deodatus (1049). Hagiography, Papal Politics, and Local Competition at the Collegiate Chapter of Saint-Dié',Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique(2022), forthcoming Vanderputten, Steven and De Gussem, Jeroen, 'Monachus ac Sacerdos Peregrinus: A Stylometric and Contextual Re-investigation of the Work of Theoderic of Fleury/Trier/Amorbach (fl. 970s–1020s)', forthcoming Vanderputten, Steven, ed., Rethinking Reform in the High Middle Ages, 900-1150, forthcoming Music: Karen Gomyo (CC BY-NC 3.0) Image: Bamberg SB MS Lit.142, fol. 65r [https://zendsbb.digitale-sammlungen.de/db/0000/sbb00000134/images/index.html?seite=133&signatur=Msc.Lit.142] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Episode 8: simony with Lioba Geis (Germany)

Simony (the illicit purchase of church office) was a major issue in 11th-century Europe. In this episode, I talk with Dr Lioba Geis about her "Habilitation" research into the nature and origins of simony, and what (if anything) changed in the 11th century. Reading mentioned in the podcast: * Lioba Geis, 'The Battle Against Simony in Norman Italy. Perceptions, Interpretations, Measures and Consequences', in: J. H. Drell, P. Oldfield (ed), Rethinking Norman Italy. Studies in Honour of Graham A. Loud [https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526138538/], Artes liberales (Manchester 2021), pp. 227-244. * Lioba Geis, 'Kirchenrechtliche Norm und diözesane Praxis. Strategien des Umgangs mit Simonie im frühen 11. Jahrhundert, in: A. Bihrer, S. Bruhn (ed.), Jenseits des Königshofs. Bischöfe und ihre Diözesen im nachkarolingischen ostfränkisch-deutschen Reich (850-1100), Studien zur Germania Sacra. Neue Folge 10 (Berlin/Boston 2019), pp. 177-208 * Hans Meier-Welcker, 'Die Simonie im frühen Mittelalter. Begriff und Erscheinung in ihrer Entwicklung von der Spätantike bis zum Investiturstreit' in: Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 64 (1952/53), 61-93 * Timothy Reuter, 'Gifts and simony', in Medieval transformations: texts, power and gifts in context (Leiden, 2001) p. 157-168 Image: Paris BnF lat. 9448, fol. 54v https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84229915/f118.image [https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84229915/f118.image] Music: Karen Gomyo (CC BY-NC 3.0) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.