John J Contreni

Biographic Data

ID1100265
NAMEJohn J Contreni
GIVEN NAMESJohn J
FAMILY NAMEContreni
SIGNATURECONTRENI J J
AFFILIATIONSPurdue University West Lafayette
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR46
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Heiric of Auxerre Reads Suetonius with Lupus of Ferrières

    Open AccessJohn J ContreniARTICLEReligions2025

    This essay examines a ninth-century collection of excerpts from Suetonius’s Lives of the Caesars compiled by Heiric of Auxerre (841–c.880), a monk, when he was a student of Abbot Lupus of Ferrières (c.805–c.862). Heiric later in his life presented the notes to Bishop Hildebold of Soissons (871–884). After reviewing the relationship between Christian learning and the pagan classics, the essay analyzes the Suetonian excerpts to determine why they w…

  • Finding Egeas in Sedulius Scottus’s De rectoribus christianis

    John J ContreniARTICLEPeritia2022

  • Wendepunkte , Again, and Early Medieval Biblical Studies

    John J ContreniARTICLEPeritia2022

    The approaching seventieth anniversary of the publication of Bernhard Bischoff ’s ‘Wendepunkte in der Geschichte der lateinischen Exegese im Fruhmittelalter’ (1954) provides another opportunity to reflect on the significance of this important essay. Also, since ‘Wendepunkte’, historians of early medieval biblical exegesis have viewed exegesis within the context of political and social culture. They have also reassessed the value of compilation, a…

  • Janet L. Nelson, King and Emperor

    John J ContreniARTICLEPeritia2021

  • Sven Meeder. The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall

    Open AccessJohn J ContreniARTICLEThe American Historical Review2019

    Notker, a monk of St. Gall (in modern Switzerland), writing toward the end of the ninth century recalled how Charlemagne’s intellectual revival was jump-started by two learned Irishmen who landed on the shores of Gaul offering wisdom to whomever desired it. Well might this inmate of a community that venerated an Irish saint and whose library preserved books “written in Irish script” have appreciated Irish contributions to the amalgam that made up…

  • Learning for God

    John J ContreniARTICLEThe Journal of Medieval Latin2014

    Schools in the Carolingian age functioned within a context of political fragmentation, geographic isolation, institutional insecurity, limited communication, limited and unequal distribution of resources, and frequent political and social violence. Thus, the history of education in the Carolingian period was discontinuous. Nevertheless, reform movements made education and learning socially significant. At the heart of the reforms was a profound r…

  • Church and Cosmos in Early Ottonian Germany

    John J ContreniARTICLESpeculum2009

  • Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America

    James J John, John Van Engen et al.ARTICLESpeculum2006

  • Alcuin

    John J ContreniARTICLESpeculum2006

  • Building Mansions in Heaven

    John J ContreniARTICLESpeculum2003References: 12

  • Papal Letters in the Early Middle Ages. Detlev Jasper , Horst Fuhrmann

    John J ContreniARTICLEThe Journal of Religion2003

  • Tironische Noten in der Karolingerzeit am Beispiel eines Persius-Kommentars aus der Schule von Tours . Martin Hellmann

    John J ContreniARTICLESpeculum2002

  • The Frankish World, 750-900. Janet L. Nelson

    John J ContreniARTICLESpeculum1998

  • Shorter Notices

    John J ContreniARTICLEThe English Historical Review1997

    SHORTER NOTICES Get access JOHN J. CONTRENI JOHN J. CONTRENI Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 447, June 1997, Pages 696–697, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.447.696 Published: 01 June 1997

  • Dhuoda

    John J Contreni, John ContreniARTICLESpeculum1997

  • Introduction

    John J ContreniARTICLEFrench Historical Studies1996

  • The Early Medieval Bible

    John J ContreniARTICLESpeculum1995

  • Phantoms of Remembrance

    Patrick Geary, Patrick J Geary et al.ARTICLEHistory Reviews of New Books1995

  • Shorter Notices

    John J ContreniARTICLEThe English Historical Review1994

    Shorter Notices JOHN J. CONTRENI JOHN J. CONTRENI Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIX, Issue 434, November 1994, Pages 1240–1241, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIX.434.1240 Published: 01 November 1994

  • The English Church and the Continent in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries

    John J ContreniARTICLESpeculum1994

  • Shorter Notices

    John J ContreniARTICLEThe English Historical Review1993

    Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access JOHN J. CONTRENI JOHN J. CONTRENI Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 426, January 1993, Pages 163–164, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.426.163 Published: 01 January 1993

  • Shorter Notices

    John J ContreniARTICLEThe English Historical Review1993

    SHORTER NOTICES Get access JOHN J. CONTRENI JOHN J. CONTRENI Purdue UniversityIndiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 428, July 1993, Pages 696-a–696, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.428.696-a Published: 01 July 1993

  • Corbie in the Carolingian Renaissance. David Ganz

    John J ContreniARTICLESpeculum1992

  • The Fate of Fortune in the Early Middle Ages

    John J ContreniARTICLESpeculum1991

  • A Guide to Eriugenian Studies

    John J ContreniARTICLESpeculum1991