review

I’ve reviewed the collected volume ‘Networks of Bishops, Networks of Texts: Manuscripts, Legal Culture, Tools of Government in Carolingian Italy at the Time of Lothar I’ edited by Gianmarco De Angelis and Franceso Veronese for the journal Early Medieval Europe. If you’re interested in early medieval Italy and manuscripts it’s definitely worth checking out. There are a handful of articles that provide great insights into the connections between Carolingian Italy and the rest of the empire north of the Alps, through the careful study of manuscripts....

A while ago, I’ve written a review on the collected volume Polity and neighbourhood in early medieval Europe edited by Julia Escalona Monge, Orri Vésteinsson and Stuart Brookes which has now been published in the Rottenburger Jahrbuch für Kirchengeschichte (2021). In the volume, comparative historical approaches are used to study the influence of external political power on everyday life and vice-versa. The review can be read in the RJKG and also here....

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.