Vanderputten, S. and West, C. (2016) Inscribing property, rituals, and royal alliances: The ‘Theutberga Gospels’ and the Abbey of Remiremont. Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, 124 (2). pp. 296-321. ISSN 0073-8484
Abstract
This paper examines the ‘Theutberga Gospels’, a ninth-century gospelbook recently sold at auction at Christie’s in London, in light of questions about literate practices, ritual scripting and aristocratic patronage of female religious communities in Lotharingia between the middle decades of the ninth century and the beginning of the eleventh. While an estate list entered into the manuscript c. 1000 likely refers to property management at the abbey of Remiremont, an ordination ritual for abbesses entered roughly a century earlier reveals significant efforts to revise the representation of abbatial office in a transitional phase of that institution’s existence. These observations invite re-interpretation of traditional assumptions about how the manuscript should be located in mid-ninth-century patronage networks. Appended to the article are editions of the estate list and the ordination ritual.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlage. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | early middle ages; female monasticism; literacy; rituals; royal patronage; Evangelienbücher; Kloster Remiremont |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of History (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2016 15:28 |
Last Modified: | 23 Dec 2019 16:04 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oldenbourg Verlag |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.7767/miog-2016-0202 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:93428 |