Julia M H Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 1531168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia M H Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia M H |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH J M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond
Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles
This collection gathers thirteen contributions by a number of historians, friends, colleagues and/or students of Jinty’s, who were asked to pick their favourite article by her and say a few words about it for an event held in her memory on 15 January 2025 at King’s College London. We offer this collection in print now for a wider audience not so much because it has any claim to be exhaustive or authoritative, but because taken all together these …
Dissimilar Similitudes. Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe, written by Caroline Walker Bynum
The Lateran Church in Rome and the Ark of the Covenant
Weaving in and out of familiar landmarks in the history of the papacy from Urban II to Alexander III, Eivor Andersen Oftestad pursues the presence of the Ark of the Covenant in the Lateran Church in Rome. Her main focus is on the high altar of the basilica itself, but she also turns her attention to the private papal chapel in the patriarchate, known at the opening of the twelfth century by its dedication to St Lawrence but by its end as the Sanc…
The remains of the saints
This article explores the materiality of early medieval devotion to the saints. It argues that, even though most of the material objects themselves no longer survive, there is nevertheless much to be gleaned from surviving caches of relic labels about what churches believed they possessed. It exploits the same evidence to explore how types of relic‐objects changed over time, track evidence for the importance of oral tradition in their formation, …
The Assault on Labor
Recent decisions from the US Supreme Court are a stark reminder of the hostile climate that American unions face in the twenty- first century. In May 2018 the court ruled that employers could force workers to sign “class action waivers” that would prevent them from using collective lawsuits to address employment issues. The following month in the infamous Janus decision the court overturned an earlier ruling that required nonmembers of public sec…
The Ransom of the Soul
‘The ransom of the soul of a man is his wealth’. Proverbs 13:8 provides the theme around which Peter Brown pursues questions which, in various ways, have preoccupied him over many years. This book’s five chapters, plus Introduction and Epilogue, originated as three public lectures. They were delivered in Vienna just as his magisterial ‘Through the Eye of a Needle’: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD w…
Maya Creation Myths
Material Christianity in the Early Medieval Household
Tu autem cum oraveris, intra in cubiculum tuum, et clauso ostio, ora Patrem tuum in abscondito: et Pater tuus, qui videt in abscondito, reddet tibi. (‘But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door. Pray to your Father in private, and your Father, who sees into concealed places, will reward you’: Matt. 6: 6) Manuscript D.V.3 in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Turin is a fat, late eighth-century volume of martyr narratives. Produced at Soisson…
The Cambridge History of Christianity
The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, this volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes the ever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local …
Europe after Rome
Introduction PART I: FUNDAMENTALS 1. Speaking and Writing 2. Living and Dying PART II: AFFINITIES 3. Friends and Relations 4. Men and Women PART III: RESOURCES 5. Labour and Lordship 6. Getting and Giving PART IV: IDEOLOGIES 7. Kingship and Christianity 8. Rome and the Peoples of Europe Epilogue
"Einharts "Vita Karoli
Einhard
This essay offers a major reassessment of the career of Einhard, biographer of Charlemagne, and an analysis of elite lay piety in the Carolingian era. Einhard's life ( c . 770–840) is discussed in terms of childhood, youth, marriage and old age, with emphasis on the significance of his wife, Imma. His personal relationship with the relics which he had translated from Rome to Seligenstadt and his self-description as a ‘sinner’ offer insights into …
Origins of the European Economy
Unjust Seizure
Did Women Have a Transformation of the Roman World
Despite intense and interdisciplinary interest in the transition from antiquity to the middle ages, work on women and gender generally remains marginal to the dominant paradigms for understanding political and social change in the period from c . 300 to c . 800 ce . This article critiques these interpretations from a gendered perspective and also reviews recent work on women and gender in late antiquity, Byzantium and the early medieval Europe. B…
Gender and Ideology in the Early Middle Ages
On 29 June 824, a woman named Dhuoda went to Aachen to be married in the imperial palace. She herself tells us about the wedding, yet it is characteristic of the Carolingian age that we know far more of the groom, Bernard of Septimania, than of the bride. His career and connections can be pieced together from a wide range of sources, but she is only known from the manual of moral and spiritual advice which she composed in 841–3 for her absent fif…
The Problem of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe C .780–920
Journal Article THE PROBLEM OF FEMALE SANCTITY IN CAROLINGIAN EUROPE c.780–920 Get access Julia M. H. Smith Julia M. H. Smith Trinity CollegeHartford, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 146, Issue 1, February 1995, Pages 3–37, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/146.1.3 Published: 01 February 1995
The Bretons. Patrick Galliou , Michael Jones
Hagiography and the Cult of Saints
Small Worlds
Oral and Written
The Rise of the Carolingians and the "Liber historiae Francorum" . Richard A. Gerberding
Celtic Asceticism and Carolingian Authority in early medieval Brittany
In the earlier Middle Ages, Brittany enjoyed a mixed reputation as a region in which to lead a life of ascetic discipline and dedication to God. The (eleventh-century?) Life of Me wan describes Samson and his disciples leaving Britain for a life of spiritual exile. They headed for Brittany because, according to the hagiographer, the region was not only a ‘desert’ where life would be harsher than elsewhere, but also because the ferocity of its inh…
The ‘archbishopric’ of Dol and the ecclesiastical politics of ninth-century Brittany
In the history of the invasions which marked the end of the Roman empire in the west, the Armorican peninsula of northwestern Gaul holds a distinctive place. It witnessed the only substantial settlements by people whose homeland lay within the Roman empire, and who had been subject to Roman civil government for several centuries. These settlers crossed the English Channel probably between the late fourth and early seventh centuries. Establishing …
Did Women Have a Transformation of the Roman World
Despite intense and interdisciplinary interest in the transition from antiquity to the middle ages, work on women and gender generally remains marginal to the dominant paradigms for understanding political and social change in the period from c . 300 to c . 800 ce . This article critiques these interpretations from a gendered perspective and also reviews recent work on women and gender in late antiquity, Byzantium and the early medieval Europe. B…
The remains of the saints
This article explores the materiality of early medieval devotion to the saints. It argues that, even though most of the material objects themselves no longer survive, there is nevertheless much to be gleaned from surviving caches of relic labels about what churches believed they possessed. It exploits the same evidence to explore how types of relic‐objects changed over time, track evidence for the importance of oral tradition in their formation, …
Material Christianity in the Early Medieval Household
Tu autem cum oraveris, intra in cubiculum tuum, et clauso ostio, ora Patrem tuum in abscondito: et Pater tuus, qui videt in abscondito, reddet tibi. (‘But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door. Pray to your Father in private, and your Father, who sees into concealed places, will reward you’: Matt. 6: 6) Manuscript D.V.3 in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Turin is a fat, late eighth-century volume of martyr narratives. Produced at Soisson…
Gender and Ideology in the Early Middle Ages
On 29 June 824, a woman named Dhuoda went to Aachen to be married in the imperial palace. She herself tells us about the wedding, yet it is characteristic of the Carolingian age that we know far more of the groom, Bernard of Septimania, than of the bride. His career and connections can be pieced together from a wide range of sources, but she is only known from the manual of moral and spiritual advice which she composed in 841–3 for her absent fif…
The Problem of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe C .780–920
Journal Article THE PROBLEM OF FEMALE SANCTITY IN CAROLINGIAN EUROPE c.780–920 Get access Julia M. H. Smith Julia M. H. Smith Trinity CollegeHartford, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 146, Issue 1, February 1995, Pages 3–37, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/146.1.3 Published: 01 February 1995
Celtic Asceticism and Carolingian Authority in early medieval Brittany
In the earlier Middle Ages, Brittany enjoyed a mixed reputation as a region in which to lead a life of ascetic discipline and dedication to God. The (eleventh-century?) Life of Me wan describes Samson and his disciples leaving Britain for a life of spiritual exile. They headed for Brittany because, according to the hagiographer, the region was not only a ‘desert’ where life would be harsher than elsewhere, but also because the ferocity of its inh…
The ‘archbishopric’ of Dol and the ecclesiastical politics of ninth-century Brittany
In the history of the invasions which marked the end of the Roman empire in the west, the Armorican peninsula of northwestern Gaul holds a distinctive place. It witnessed the only substantial settlements by people whose homeland lay within the Roman empire, and who had been subject to Roman civil government for several centuries. These settlers crossed the English Channel probably between the late fourth and early seventh centuries. Establishing …
The ‘archbishopric’ of Dol and the ecclesiastical politics of ninth-century Brittany
In the history of the invasions which marked the end of the Roman empire in the west, the Armorican peninsula of northwestern Gaul holds a distinctive place. It witnessed the only substantial settlements by people whose homeland lay within the Roman empire, and who had been subject to Roman civil government for several centuries. These settlers crossed the English Channel probably between the late fourth and early seventh centuries. Establishing …
Celtic Asceticism and Carolingian Authority in early medieval Brittany
In the earlier Middle Ages, Brittany enjoyed a mixed reputation as a region in which to lead a life of ascetic discipline and dedication to God. The (eleventh-century?) Life of Me wan describes Samson and his disciples leaving Britain for a life of spiritual exile. They headed for Brittany because, according to the hagiographer, the region was not only a ‘desert’ where life would be harsher than elsewhere, but also because the ferocity of its inh…
The Rise of the Carolingians and the "Liber historiae Francorum" . Richard A. Gerberding
Small Worlds
Oral and Written
Hagiography and the Cult of Saints
The Bretons. Patrick Galliou , Michael Jones
The Problem of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe C .780–920
Journal Article THE PROBLEM OF FEMALE SANCTITY IN CAROLINGIAN EUROPE c.780–920 Get access Julia M. H. Smith Julia M. H. Smith Trinity CollegeHartford, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 146, Issue 1, February 1995, Pages 3–37, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/146.1.3 Published: 01 February 1995
Gender and Ideology in the Early Middle Ages
On 29 June 824, a woman named Dhuoda went to Aachen to be married in the imperial palace. She herself tells us about the wedding, yet it is characteristic of the Carolingian age that we know far more of the groom, Bernard of Septimania, than of the bride. His career and connections can be pieced together from a wide range of sources, but she is only known from the manual of moral and spiritual advice which she composed in 841–3 for her absent fif…
Did Women Have a Transformation of the Roman World
Despite intense and interdisciplinary interest in the transition from antiquity to the middle ages, work on women and gender generally remains marginal to the dominant paradigms for understanding political and social change in the period from c . 300 to c . 800 ce . This article critiques these interpretations from a gendered perspective and also reviews recent work on women and gender in late antiquity, Byzantium and the early medieval Europe. B…
Einhard
This essay offers a major reassessment of the career of Einhard, biographer of Charlemagne, and an analysis of elite lay piety in the Carolingian era. Einhard's life ( c . 770–840) is discussed in terms of childhood, youth, marriage and old age, with emphasis on the significance of his wife, Imma. His personal relationship with the relics which he had translated from Rome to Seligenstadt and his self-description as a ‘sinner’ offer insights into …
Origins of the European Economy
Unjust Seizure
"Einharts "Vita Karoli
Europe after Rome
Introduction PART I: FUNDAMENTALS 1. Speaking and Writing 2. Living and Dying PART II: AFFINITIES 3. Friends and Relations 4. Men and Women PART III: RESOURCES 5. Labour and Lordship 6. Getting and Giving PART IV: IDEOLOGIES 7. Kingship and Christianity 8. Rome and the Peoples of Europe Epilogue
The Cambridge History of Christianity
The key focus of this book is the vitality and dynamism of all aspects of Christian experience from late antiquity to the First Crusade. By putting the institutional and doctrinal history firmly in the context of Christianity's many cultural manifestations and lived formations everywhere from Afghanistan to Iceland, this volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity emphasizes the ever-changing, varied expressions of Christianity at both local …
Material Christianity in the Early Medieval Household
Tu autem cum oraveris, intra in cubiculum tuum, et clauso ostio, ora Patrem tuum in abscondito: et Pater tuus, qui videt in abscondito, reddet tibi. (‘But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door. Pray to your Father in private, and your Father, who sees into concealed places, will reward you’: Matt. 6: 6) Manuscript D.V.3 in the Biblioteca Nazionale of Turin is a fat, late eighth-century volume of martyr narratives. Produced at Soisson…
Maya Creation Myths
The Ransom of the Soul
‘The ransom of the soul of a man is his wealth’. Proverbs 13:8 provides the theme around which Peter Brown pursues questions which, in various ways, have preoccupied him over many years. This book’s five chapters, plus Introduction and Epilogue, originated as three public lectures. They were delivered in Vienna just as his magisterial ‘Through the Eye of a Needle’: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–550 AD w…
The Assault on Labor
Recent decisions from the US Supreme Court are a stark reminder of the hostile climate that American unions face in the twenty- first century. In May 2018 the court ruled that employers could force workers to sign “class action waivers” that would prevent them from using collective lawsuits to address employment issues. The following month in the infamous Janus decision the court overturned an earlier ruling that required nonmembers of public sec…
The remains of the saints
This article explores the materiality of early medieval devotion to the saints. It argues that, even though most of the material objects themselves no longer survive, there is nevertheless much to be gleaned from surviving caches of relic labels about what churches believed they possessed. It exploits the same evidence to explore how types of relic‐objects changed over time, track evidence for the importance of oral tradition in their formation, …
The Lateran Church in Rome and the Ark of the Covenant
Weaving in and out of familiar landmarks in the history of the papacy from Urban II to Alexander III, Eivor Andersen Oftestad pursues the presence of the Ark of the Covenant in the Lateran Church in Rome. Her main focus is on the high altar of the basilica itself, but she also turns her attention to the private papal chapel in the patriarchate, known at the opening of the twelfth century by its dedication to St Lawrence but by its end as the Sanc…
Dissimilar Similitudes. Devotional Objects in Late Medieval Europe, written by Caroline Walker Bynum
Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond
Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles
This collection gathers thirteen contributions by a number of historians, friends, colleagues and/or students of Jinty’s, who were asked to pick their favourite article by her and say a few words about it for an event held in her memory on 15 January 2025 at King’s College London. We offer this collection in print now for a wider audience not so much because it has any claim to be exhaustive or authoritative, but because taken all together these …
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