Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages
- Edited by Michael J. Kelly, K. Patrick Fazioli
Published on May 4, 2023 by punctum books
- Pages
- 248 pages
- Languages
- English
- Dimensions
- 5⤫8 in.
- ISBN (Paperback)
- ISBN: 978-1-68571-054-5 (Paperback)
- ISBN (PDF)
- ISBN: 978-1-68571-055-2 (PDF)
- LCCN
- LCCN: 2023935929
- BISAC subject codes
- BISAC: HIS037010, HIS054000
- Thema subject codes
- THEMA: 1D, 3KH, JHBA
Social and Intellectual Networking in the Early Middle Ages seeks to expand our understanding of early medieval connectivity by interrogating social and intellectual collaborations, competitions, and communications among persons, places, things, and ideas in the European and Mediterranean West during the second half of the first millennium CE. In so doing, its contributors explore the existence, performance, and sustainability of diverse political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, and material networks via manuscripts, artifacts, and theories framed by two broad interpretive categories. The first examines networks of scholars, writers, and the social and political histories related to their productions. The second imagines the transmission of “knowledge” as information, rhetoric, object, and epistemic grounding. In addition, the book rigorously investigates the theoretical possibilities and problems of researching early medieval networks, attempts to reconstruct historical networks, and critically analyzes the concept of “information.”
Contents
Frontmatter (1–11)
Michael J. Kelly, K. Patrick Fazioli
Preface: The Visigothic Idea: Are the Visigoths Still Networking? (13–26)
Michael J. Kelly
Introduction (27–36)
Sven Meeder
Modeling the Middle Ages: A Review of Historical Network Research on Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean World (37–68)
K. Patrick Fazioli
Carolingian Schoolbooks and Intellectual Networks: A New Approach (69–91)
Elizabeth P. Archibald
The Politics of Intellectual Networks in Late Merovingian Francia (93–115)
Yitzhak Hen
Networks of Learning and Political Legitimacy in Ninth-Century Asturias: Toward Mozarabic Authorship of the "Chronicle of Alfonso III" (117–159)
Ksenia Bonch Reeves
Novalesa’s Networks between Gaul and Italy: Restoring Institutional Memories and Libraries in the Twilight of the Early Middle Ages (161–190)
Edward M. Schoolman
The Early Reception History of the First Book of Isidore’s "Etymologies" as a Mirror of Carolingian Intellectual Networks: A Proposal (191–235)
Evina Steinová
Backmatter (237–243)
Michael J. Kelly, K. Patrick Fazioli
Biographies
Michael J. Kelly lectures history, critical theory, and the philosophy of history at Binghamton University (SUNY) and is Director of Networks and Neighbours. His publications include Isidore of Seville and the “Liber Iudiciorum”: The Struggle for the Past in the Visigothic Kingdom (Brill, 2021) and the co-edited volume Theories of History: History Read Across the Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2018). He is currently preparing a monograph on the concept of in/humanity in early medieval theology.
K. Patrick Fazioli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Co-Director of the Global Honors Program at Mercy College (NY). An anthropological archaeologist focusing on the late antique and early medieval eastern Alpine region, he is the author of The Mirror of the Medieval: An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017).
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Genres
- History
- Literary Studies
- Premodern
Keywords
- Early Middle Ages
- history
- social networks
- Visigoths