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Judith of West Francia, Carolingian Princess and First Countess of Flanders. Biographical Elements and Legacy
, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 254 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:22 col., 5 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503604619.
Summary Judith of West Francia is one of the most enigmatic of Charlemagne's early descendants. The daughter of the king of West Francia and future emperor Charles the Bald and his wife Ermentrude, she was one of only a handful of Carolingian princesses who were destined for marriage. Over the course of her teenage years she married two successive kings of Wessex, became the first consecrated queen of England, was widowed twice, returned to Francia with an immense dowry, and sparked a major diplomatic incident when she eloped with a nobleman from Flanders called Baldwin. Eventually she married Baldwin in early 864, and together they established the dynasty of the counts of Flanders. In doing so the couple laid the groundwork for what would become one of the mightiest and most prestigious territorial principalities in north-western Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries. But even in the tenth century, exceedingly few written memories of Judith's life survived. This explains why she was never the subject of a biography in the medieval or early modern eras, and why scholarship's understanding of her life and legacy remains highly fragmented. This volume sets the record straight, offering an accessible and interdisciplinary discussion of all relevant and documented aspects of Judith's life and legacy. TABLE OF CONTENTS Steven Vanderputten, Introduction: Judith of Flanders as a Historical Figure, Figurehead of Dynastic Legitimation, and Source of Literary Imagination Charles West, Judith's Elopement, set in the Context of Ninth-Century Politics and Ideology Brigitte Meijns, The Question of The Emergence and Early Development of the County of Flanders Els De Paermentier, The Early Countesses of Flanders: Profile and Power Lisa Demets, Judith in the Literary Imagination of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Eras Georges Declercq, Looking for Judith's Burial Site Geert Vermeiren and Marie-Anne Bru, The Discovery of Seven Elite Graves in the Narthex of Saint-Peter's abbey in Ghent Jessica Palmer, Isabelle De Groote, et al., Anthropological Analysis of 'Judith' and the Six Other Remains. Annex
Ecclesia in medio nationis, Reflections on the Study of Monasticism in the Central Middle Ages Reflexions sur l'etude du monachisme au moyen age central
, UPL, 2011 paperback, 215 p., English/French . ISBN 9789058678874.
Drawing on recent trends in historical scholarship, this volume seeks to identify some of the major questions that will dominate research into monasticism in the years to come. Contributions deal with the evolution of monasticism itself, its links with aristocracy, the economic relations of religious communities and their physical and ideological boundaries, and the representation of the outside world in monastic manuscripts. Mediaevalia Lovaniensia - Series 1/Studia 42
Dismantling the Medieval. Early Modern Perceptions of a Female Convent's Past
, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 247 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 14 col., 2 tables col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503593470.
Summary Dismantling the Medieval studies the paradoxical relationship of the early modern canonesses of Bouxi res with the medieval past of their institution. While various documentary, material, spatial, and immaterial legacies of that past remained a crucial presence in the convent's narrative of self, the canonesses also used and manipulated them to pursue and justify drastic changes in their organization and lifestyle. Thanks to an unusually rich and varied body of evidence, we are able to reconstruct in unprecedented detail this elite convent's highly flexible memory culture over a period of more than two centuries. Guiding the reader back through time, the book gradually reveals how and why the canonesses' connection to the medieval past lived on throughout many crises and transformations, including even the abbey's dissolution in 1971. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: 1833 A Gift for an Emperor Chapter 2: 1801 St Gozelin's (Im)mortal Remains Chapter 3: 1784 The Death of a Medieval Convent Chapter 4: 1766 Retooling Religious Space and Identities Chapter 5: 1692 Old and New Memories of Origins Conclusions Appendices Index of people and places
Ecclesia in medio nationis. Reflections on the study of monasticism in the central middle ages. Réflexions sur l'étude du monachisme au moyen age central
Leuven, Leuven University Press 2011 215pp., 24cm., softcover, dustwrapper, in the series "Mediaevalia Lovaniensia" series I studia XLII (42), fine condition, ISBN 978-90-5867-887-4, R98880
