Connecting People

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.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Connecting People – A Tribute to Janneke Raaijmakers - Albrecht Diem, Irene van Renswoude, Mayke de JongLet us Keep in Touch: Relics, Letters and Gift Exchange in Late Antiquity - Janneke Raaijmakers, with Irene van RenswoudePART 1: SAINTSAvoiding the Miraculous in Isidore of Seville - Kati IhnatReading Hagiography in Times of Reform: The Carolingian Legendary Montpellier, Bibl. Interuniversitaire de médecine, H 55 - Gordon Blennemann"Remembered, Blessed, and Praised". Immaterial Relics in Radbod of Utrecht's Miracle Story of St. Martin - Els RoseFinding Founding Fathers. Balderik of Utrecht and the Propagation of Saints' Cults (c. 917-976) - Jelle VisserPART 2: RELICSInscribing Sanctity. An Approach to Relic Inscriptions - Elisa PallottiniOf Gold and Silk: On the Poem by Hincmar of Reims Embroidered by Alpais on the Cushion of St. Remi - Cécile TreffortA Gift of Alms? Charlemagne and the Relics of Sens Cathedral - Julia M. H. SmithTogether in the Community of the Saints: Relic Collection and "Rememory" at the Abbey of Corbie - Anne E. LesterSigned and Sealed: Determining the Authenticity of the Relics of St. Rombout in the Early Modern Period - Renée SchillingPART 3: COMMUNITYSaints – Warriors – Slaves – Disciples: Community and Agency in Sixth century Monastic Rules from Gaul - Albrecht DiemThe Creation of Community through Epitaphs: The Case of Early Medieval Lyon - Ophelia NorrisKeep the Faith: Hope and Fear as Emotional Concepts in Carolingian Culture - Rutger KramerThe Many Families of Aelred of Rievaulx - Barbara H. RosenweinPART 4: MEMORYThe Christian Past in Sixth-century Verona: Biblioteca capitolare Cod. XXII (20) - Rosamond McKitterickThe Shadow of Leovigild. Royal Power and Episcopal Deliberation in Early Medieval Iberia - Kay BoersConstructing Canonical Authority. Gregory the Great and the Libellus Responsionum in the Early Middle Ages - Rob MeensWriting as Jerome: On Paschasius Radbertus and his Sermon for Theodrada and Imma - Mayke de JongList of publications of Janneke Ellen RaaijmakersList of abbreviationsIndex