Books:
Lawrence Nees, Early Medieval Art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
Compendium (available at Akademika. Please remember to bring your student ID with you):
- Yitzhak Hen, ‘Introduction: A Series of Unfortunate Events’, in Roman Barbarians: the Royal Court and Culture in the Early Medieval West (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 1–26 (26 pp.)
- Yitzhak Hen, ‘Chapter 4. Religious Culture and the Power of Tradition in the Early Medieval West,’ in A Companion to the Medieval World, ed. by Carol Lansing and Edward D. English (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 67–85 (19 pp.)
- Jas Elsner, ‘Chapter 2. Between Mimesis and Divine Power: Visuality in the Greco-Roman World’, in Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance: Seeing as Others Saw, ed. by Robert S. Nelson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 45–69 (25 pp.)
- David Woods, ‘Chapter 25. Late Antique Historiography: A Brief History of Time’, in A Companion to Late Antiquity, ed. by Philip Rousseau (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 357–71 (15 pp.)
- Rosamond McKitterick, ‘Conclusion: History and its Audiences in the Carolingian World’, in History and Memory in the Carolingian World (Cambridge: Cambridge Universit Press, 2004), pp. 265–83 (19 pp.);
- Janet Nelson, ‘History-writing at the Courts of Louis the Pious and Charles the Bald’, in Historiographie im frühen Mittelalter, ed. by Anton Scharer and Georg Scheibelretter (Vienna and Munich, 1993), pp. 53?–66 (14 pp.);
- Gerd Althoff, Family, Friends and Followers: Political and Social Bonds in Early Medieval Europe, trans. Christopher Carroll (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 136–59 (24 pp.);
- Janet Nelson, ‘Was Charlemagne’s Court a Courtly Society?’ in Court Culture in the Early Middle Ages, ed. by Catherine Cubitt (Brepols, 2003), pp. 39–57 (19 pp.)
- Yitzhak Hen, ‘The Early Medieval West’, in The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West (Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 183–206 (24 pp.)
- Paul Edward Dutton, ‘Chapter 8. Thunder and Hail over the Carolingian Countryside’, in Charlemagne’s Moustache and Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 169–88 (20 pp.)
- Julia M.H. Smith, Europe after Rome, pp. 13–50 (38 pp.);
- Peter Brown, ‘Arbiters of the Holy: The Christian Holy Man in Late Antiquity’, in Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp. 57–78 (22 pp.);
- Julia M.H. Smith, ‘Saints and their Cults’, in The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 3: Early Medieval Christianities, c. 600–c. 1100, ed. by Thomas F.X. Noble and Julia M.H. Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 581–605 (25 pp.);
- Daniel F. Caner, ‘”Not of This World”: The Invention of Monasticism’, in A Companion to Late Antiquity, ed. by Philip Rousseau (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), pp. 588–600 (13 pp.):
- C.H. Lawrence, Medieval Monasticism, 3rd edn (Pearson Education Limited, 2001), pp. 18–36, 39–52, and 66–80 (48 pp.)
- Thomas F. X. Noble, ‘Chapter One. Art, Icons, and Their Critics and Defenders before the Age of Iconoclasm’, in Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), pp. 10–45 (36 pp.)
- Leslie Brubaker, ‘Icons and Iconomachy’, in Blackwell Companion to Byzantium, ed. by Liz James (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 323–37 (15 pp.);
- Anthony Eastmond, ‘Monograms and the Art of Unhelpful Writing in Late Antiquity’, in Sign and Design in Cross-Cultural Perspective (300–1600 CE), ed. by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak and Jeffrey F. Hamburger (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2016), pp. 219–35 (17 pp.);
- Bianca Kühnel, ‘Carolingian Diagrams, Images of the Invisible’, in Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ed. by Giselle de Nie et al. (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), pp. 359–89 (21 pp):
- Michelle Brown, ‘Images to be Read and Words to be Seen: The Iconic Role of the Early Medieval Book’, Postscripts 6 (2010), 39–66 (27 pp.);
- John J. Contreni, ‘The Carolingian Renaissance: Education and Literary Culture’, in The New Cambridge Medieval History, vol. 2, ed. by Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 709–57 (49 pp);
- Rosamond McKitterick, ‘Script and Book Production’, in Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation, ed. by Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 221–47 (27 pp.).
Online texts - available through the UiO network:
- Walter Goffart, ‘Jordanes’s Getica and the Disputed Authenticity of Gothic Origins from Scandinavia’, Speculum 80 (2005), 379–98 (20 pp.)
- Geffrey Koziol, ‘Review Article: The Dangers of Polemic: Is Ritual Still an Interesting Topic of Historical Study’, Early Medieval Europe 11 (2002), 367–88 (22 pp.)
- Philippe Buc, ‘The Monster and the Critics: A Ritual Reply’, Early Medieval Europe 15 (2007), 441–52 (12 pp.)
- Christine P?ssel, ‘The Magic of Early Medieval Ritual’, Early Medieval Europe 17 (2009), 111–25 (15 pp.)
- Steven A. Stofferahn, ‘Resonance and Discord: An Early Medieval Reconsideration of Political Culture’, in Historical Reflections 36,1 (2010), 4–16 (13 pp.)
- Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne, in Medieval Sourcebook (about 25 pp.)
- Adobard of Lyons, On Hail and Thunder, in Medieval Sourcebook (about 10 pp.)
- Henry Maguire, ‘Magic and Money in the Early Middle Ages’, Speculum 72 (1997), 1037–54 (18 pp.)
- Mathew Innes, ‘Memory, Orality and Literacy in an Early Medieval Society’, Past and Present 158,1 (1998), 3–36 (34 pp.)
- H. Ellershaw, Life of Antony, Select Writings of Athanasius, Library of Nicene and post Nicene Fathers, Second series, vol. 4 (New York: 1924, repr. 1957), 195-221 (27 pp.)
- The Rule of St Benedict, selected chapters accessible at Medieval Sourcebook (approximately 10 pp)
- Liza K. Libby and Richard P. Elbach. ‘The Role of Visual Imagery in Social Cognition’. In The Oxford Handbook of Social Cognition, ed. by Donal E. Carlston (Oxford, 2013), pp. 147–66 (20 pp.)
- Ildar Garipzanov, ‘The Rise of Graphicacy in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’, Viator 46,2 (2015), 1–21 (21 pp.)
- Matthew W. Dickie, Magic and Magicians in the Greco-Roman World (Routledge, 2001), pp. 273–93 and 304–21 (39 pp.);