Networks & Neighbours: Vol. 3, Issue 1: Migrations (Volume 3)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692435239 ISBN 13: 9780692435236

Publisher: Punctum Books, 2015

Networks and Neighbours is a refereed and peer-reviewed open-access, online journal concerned with varying types of inter-connectivity in the Early Middle Ages. Published biannually (July and January), the journal collects exceptional pieces of work by both postgraduate students and established academics with an aim to promote the study of how people and communities interacted within and without their own world and localities in the Early Middle Ages. Issue 3.1 (April 2015) is devoted to the topic of Migration: The movement of people, languages, objects, ideas, institutions, and traditions have long been an essential part of discussions of both Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. In recent decades the study of ‘(im)migration’ has become central to any discussion of these periods. This historical and historiographical attention has developed in association with other critical, intellectual and academic trends during these years, becoming entangled with concepts, ideas, and empirical data about ‘movement’, ‘space’, ‘land’, ‘centre/periphery’, ‘boundaries’, ‘transmission’, ‘communication’ and ‘ideology’. Within this, the role of present-day politics has never been far away, particularly as Europe has faced, during recent decades and continuing today, regularly shifting boundaries, alternative forms of citizenship, new inner confrontations, and re-emerged forms of emotive reactionism. What place do and should historians have in these debates? How self-reflective have we been about the pasts that we choose to research, and about how we represent them? TABLE OF CONTENTS INVITED PAPER // Peter Heather, "Migration" ARTICLE // Santiago Barreiro, "Genealogy, Labour and Land: The Settlement of the Mýramenn in Egils saga" BOOK REVIEWS // Michael Burrows, Review of Neglected Barbarians edited by Florin Curta (2011, Turnhout) -- Roger Collins, Review of The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages by Ian Wood (2013, Oxford) -- Zachary Guiliano, Review of Opus Dei: An Archaeology of Duty by Giorgio Agamben (2013, Stanford) -- Javier Martínez Jiménez, Review of The Roman West, AD 200-500: An Archaeological Study by Simon Esmonde Cleary (2013, Cambridge) -- Stanley P. Rosenberg, Review of Aaron Pelttari’s translation of Transformations of Religious Practices in Late Antiquity by Éric Rebillard (2013, Farnham) -- Michael Edward Stewart, Review of Child Emperor Rule in the Late Roman West, AD 367-455 by Meaghan A. McEvoy (2013, Oxford) -- Catalin Taranu’s review of Perceptions of the Prehistoric in Anglo-Saxon England: Religion, Ritual, and Rulership in the Landscape by Sarah Semple (2013, Oxford) -- Adrián Viale, Review of Crisis Management in Late Antiquity (410-590 CE): A Survey of the Evidence from Episcopal Letters by Pauline Allen and Bronwen Neil (2013, Leiden) -- Eleanor Warren, Review of Medieval York: 600-1540 by D.M. Palliser (2014, Oxford) and York: The Making of a City 1068-1350 by Sarah Rees Jones (2013, Oxford) -- Jamie Wood, Review of Bede and the End of Time by Peter Darby (2012, Farnham) CONFERENCE REPORTS // Michael Kelly, Report on ‘Networks and Neighbours II’ -- Lia Sternizki, Report on ‘East and West in the Early Middle Ages: The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective’ -- Hope Williard, Report on ‘High and Low Literature in Late Antiquity’ -- N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, Report on ‘Network for the Study of Caroline Miniscule Inaugural Colloquium’

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Networks and Neighbours (N&N) is a voice of the larger project of scholars by the same name. The project sponsors conference panels and runs masterclasses, lectures and other events, including our annual symposium rotating biannually between the University of Leeds and select sites around the globe. This international, or rather post-national, and also extra-institutional, intellectual spirit is embodied in the journal N&N. The editorial board of N&N consists of established leaders in the field as well as emerging young scholars working in early medieval studies. The methodologies, styles, chosen historiographies, historical representations and theses of the board members complement each other in various ways and provide emulative models of historical research and authorship. They also represent the firm, critical and confrontational interrogations needed to advance early medieval scholarship in radical directions and towards truly alternative ways of thinking and emerging the early medieval past.