Portraits of Medieval Europe, 800–1400

Christian Raffensperger is the Kenneth E. Wray Chair in the Humanities at Wittenberg University, where he is also a professor and Chair of the History Department. His overarching aim in his work is to integrate eastern Europe into the rest of medieval Europe. This began with his first book, Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ and the Medieval World (2012), and has continued through his most recent projects such as Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000–1200 (2023).Erin Thomas Dailey is an Associate Professor of Late Antique and Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester. He is currently the Principal Investigator for an ERC-Consolidator Grant (DoSSE Project 101001429). He is also the author of two monographs, Queens, Consorts, Concubines: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Merovingian Elite (2015), and Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen (2023).

• 1. Introduction Lucy K. Pick2. ‘My name is Euphemios….Euphemios of Amastris’: memories of a eunuch at His Emperor(s)’ service in the Byzantine insular and coastal koine (ca. 680-ca. 740)Luca Zavagno3. Gisela, Abbess of Chelles, in Conversation with Charlemagne and Alcuin of YorkRutger Kramer and Ingrid Rembold4. Theutberga: Reflections on the Divorce of King Lothar IIErin Thomas Dailey5. For She Is Not to Work: A Noble’s Experience of Human Trafficking in the Viking AgeChristopher Paolella6. Ruin and Misery: The troubles of Erchempert of MontecassinoChristopher Heath7. On the Caliph’s Secret Service: Ibrāhīm ibn Ya’qūb on Slavic EuropeAndrii Danylenko8. Brian Bórumha, High King of IrelandBenjamin Hudson9. Otloh of St Emmeram: A Life of TemptationsJuanita Feros Ruys10. Unknown: A Concubine of Many NamesStacey E. Murrell11. Basil the Bogomil: Seen Through Contemporary EyesHisatsugu Kusabu12. My Father’s Noble Life – Boris, son of King Koloman; by Konstantinos KalamanosChristian Raffensperger13. Heloise: Philosopher of Love and FriendshipDonald Ostrowski14. Between the Lines: The Life of Havoise of Brittany, c. 1096-1165Amy Livingstone15. The Gifts of Teresa FernándezMiriam Shadis16. ‘A Princess Wooed by Many’: Agnes of France, Empress of ConstantinopleErin Jordan17. I am Thibaut I of Navarre, the poet who would be kingXabier Irujo18. Notarius Ricardus de Omnibene, OFM, from GenoaFelicitas Schmieder19. On the Edges: Medieval Swansea, Visited by Ralph Baldock, Bishop of LondonCatherine A.M. Clarke20. Queen Helen of Serbia. Catholic Noblewoman – Orthodox QueenJelena Erdeljan21. The Missini SiblingsRena Lauer22. A Pilgrim’s Deliberation: Johaneta Aymara’s Pilgrimage to Le Puy-en-Velay, en route to the Camino de Santiago de CompostelaSusan McDonough23. Abbot Heinrich Kresse and St BarbaraEmilia Jamroziak