Connecting People
Saints, Relics and Communities in the Early Medieval World - in Memory of Janneke Raaijmakers
Published on 31. December 2024
Book
Hardback
373 pages
978-615-6696-49-6 (ISBN)
Description
This volume brings together contributions of teachers, peers, friends and students of Janneke Raaijmakers, who died in 2021 at age 48, to honour her life and academic accomplishments. Janneke Raaijmakers was an eminent early medieval scholar who studied the history of religious communities, the cult of saints, the veneration of relics and material culture particularly in the Carolingian world. Almost all chapters engage with different aspects of Janneke Raaijmakers's research. The book is divided in four thematic sections: Saints, Relics, Community, and Memory.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hungary
Publishing group
Trivent Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 figures
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 176 mm
ISBN-13
978-615-6696-49-6 (9786156696496)
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Albrecht Diem is Professor of Late Antique and Medieval History at Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY). He recently published The Pursuit of Salvation. Community, Space, and Discipline in Early Medieval Monasticism (Turnhout: Brepols 2021). Currently he is working a translation and commentary of the corpus of 6th-century Latin monastic rules and on a newly discovered pastoral handbook for monks from the early 8th century.
Mayke De Jong was Professor of Medieval History at Utrecht University from 1987 until her retirement in 2016. Her most recent books are Epitaph for an Era. Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and, with Justin Lake, Confronting Crisis in the Carolingian Empire. Paschasius Radbertus' Funeral Oration for Wala of Corbie (Manchester University Press, 2020).
Irene van Renswoude is Professor of Medieval Manuscripts and Cultural History at Amsterdam University's Department of Book History, and senior researcher in the Department of Knowledge and Art Practices of the Huygens Institute, part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on practices of censorship, reader's traces and tactile engagement with manuscript books.
Mayke De Jong was Professor of Medieval History at Utrecht University from 1987 until her retirement in 2016. Her most recent books are Epitaph for an Era. Politics and Rhetoric in the Carolingian World (Cambridge University Press, 2019) and, with Justin Lake, Confronting Crisis in the Carolingian Empire. Paschasius Radbertus' Funeral Oration for Wala of Corbie (Manchester University Press, 2020).
Irene van Renswoude is Professor of Medieval Manuscripts and Cultural History at Amsterdam University's Department of Book History, and senior researcher in the Department of Knowledge and Art Practices of the Huygens Institute, part of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on practices of censorship, reader's traces and tactile engagement with manuscript books.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Connecting People - A Tribute to Janneke Raaijmakers - Albrecht Diem, Irene van Renswoude, Mayke de Jong
Let us Keep in Touch: Relics, Letters and Gift Exchange in Late Antiquity - Janneke Raaijmakers, with Irene van Renswoude
PART 1: SAINTS
Avoiding the Miraculous in Isidore of Seville - Kati Ihnat
Reading Hagiography in Times of Reform: The Carolingian Legendary Montpellier, Bibl. Interuniversitaire de medecine, H 55 - Gordon Blennemann
"Remembered, Blessed, and Praised". Immaterial Relics in Radbod of Utrecht's Miracle Story of St. Martin - Els Rose
Finding Founding Fathers. Balderik of Utrecht and the Propagation of Saints' Cults (c. 917-976) - Jelle Visser
PART 2: RELICS
Inscribing Sanctity. An Approach to Relic Inscriptions - Elisa Pallottini
Of Gold and Silk: On the Poem by Hincmar of Reims Embroidered by Alpais on the Cushion of St. Remi - Cecile Treffort
A Gift of Alms? Charlemagne and the Relics of Sens Cathedral - Julia M. H. Smith
Together in the Community of the Saints: Relic Collection and "Rememory" at the Abbey of Corbie - Anne E. Lester
Signed and Sealed: Determining the Authenticity of the Relics of St. Rombout in the Early Modern Period - Renee Schilling
PART 3: COMMUNITY
Saints - Warriors - Slaves - Disciples: Community and Agency in Sixth century Monastic Rules from Gaul - Albrecht Diem
The Creation of Community through Epitaphs: The Case of Early Medieval Lyon - Ophelia Norris
Keep the Faith: Hope and Fear as Emotional Concepts in Carolingian Culture - Rutger Kramer
The Many Families of Aelred of Rievaulx - Barbara H. Rosenwein
PART 4: MEMORY
The Christian Past in Sixth-century Verona: Biblioteca capitolare Cod. XXII (20) - Rosamond McKitterick
The Shadow of Leovigild. Royal Power and Episcopal Deliberation in Early Medieval Iberia - Kay Boers
Constructing Canonical Authority. Gregory the Great and the Libellus Responsionum in the Early Middle Ages - Rob Meens
Writing as Jerome: On Paschasius Radbertus and his Sermon for Theodrada and Imma - Mayke de Jong
List of publications of Janneke Ellen Raaijmakers
List of abbreviations
Index
Introduction: Connecting People - A Tribute to Janneke Raaijmakers - Albrecht Diem, Irene van Renswoude, Mayke de Jong
Let us Keep in Touch: Relics, Letters and Gift Exchange in Late Antiquity - Janneke Raaijmakers, with Irene van Renswoude
PART 1: SAINTS
Avoiding the Miraculous in Isidore of Seville - Kati Ihnat
Reading Hagiography in Times of Reform: The Carolingian Legendary Montpellier, Bibl. Interuniversitaire de medecine, H 55 - Gordon Blennemann
"Remembered, Blessed, and Praised". Immaterial Relics in Radbod of Utrecht's Miracle Story of St. Martin - Els Rose
Finding Founding Fathers. Balderik of Utrecht and the Propagation of Saints' Cults (c. 917-976) - Jelle Visser
PART 2: RELICS
Inscribing Sanctity. An Approach to Relic Inscriptions - Elisa Pallottini
Of Gold and Silk: On the Poem by Hincmar of Reims Embroidered by Alpais on the Cushion of St. Remi - Cecile Treffort
A Gift of Alms? Charlemagne and the Relics of Sens Cathedral - Julia M. H. Smith
Together in the Community of the Saints: Relic Collection and "Rememory" at the Abbey of Corbie - Anne E. Lester
Signed and Sealed: Determining the Authenticity of the Relics of St. Rombout in the Early Modern Period - Renee Schilling
PART 3: COMMUNITY
Saints - Warriors - Slaves - Disciples: Community and Agency in Sixth century Monastic Rules from Gaul - Albrecht Diem
The Creation of Community through Epitaphs: The Case of Early Medieval Lyon - Ophelia Norris
Keep the Faith: Hope and Fear as Emotional Concepts in Carolingian Culture - Rutger Kramer
The Many Families of Aelred of Rievaulx - Barbara H. Rosenwein
PART 4: MEMORY
The Christian Past in Sixth-century Verona: Biblioteca capitolare Cod. XXII (20) - Rosamond McKitterick
The Shadow of Leovigild. Royal Power and Episcopal Deliberation in Early Medieval Iberia - Kay Boers
Constructing Canonical Authority. Gregory the Great and the Libellus Responsionum in the Early Middle Ages - Rob Meens
Writing as Jerome: On Paschasius Radbertus and his Sermon for Theodrada and Imma - Mayke de Jong
List of publications of Janneke Ellen Raaijmakers
List of abbreviations
Index