Recently, I’ve written a review of Gaëlle Calvet-Marcadé’s book Assassin des pauvres. L’Église et l’inaliénabilité des terres à l’époque carolingienne for Francia Recensio. An interesting read for those working on early medieval intellectual history. You can read the review here.
Pastoral works. Priests, books and compilative practices in the Carolingian period Download a pdf-version here. Priests are the main subject of this dissertation; clergymen that served communities of laypeople via local churches where they provided them with pastoral care. By examining the books they used for this purpose, we can get a glimpse of what early medieval Christianity and life in a rural context looked like. The dissertation’s main question is how these books can be instrumentalized and what kind of knowledge this yields....