Rachel Stone
Biographic Data
| ID | 5516640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Stone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Stone |
| SIGNATURE | STONE R |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6966-7503 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Public Histories and Private History of Janet L. (Jinty) Nelson, 1942–2024)
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 …
Learning to Be Noble in the Middle Ages
Charlemagne and Rome
Ruth Mazo Karras. Thou Art the Man
Studying medieval masculinity is difficult. Medievalists exploring the cultural construction of manliness, individuals’ social performance of their gender, or the subjectivity of a man’s gendered identity run up against texts that rarely discuss masculinity explicitly. How do we discover aspects of men’s actions and thoughts taken for granted by medieval cultures when we lack the thick descriptions of modern ethnography and the few male subjectiv…
Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for High School Aged Youth
Overlooked Husbands
Unfree people in the Roman world could not legally marry, while they could in the Middle Ages. This paper explores the marriage of the unfree in the Carolingian empire (750–900 CE), a society with an intense moral concern about marriage. Carolingian churchmen wrote extensively about marriage, using a strongly gendered discourse focusing on how men should approach marriage and behave as husbands. However, these moral and legal texts rarely discuss…
The divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga
Between 858 and 869, an unprecedented scandal played out in Frankish Europe, becoming the subject of gossip not only in palaces and cathedrals. It was in these years that a Frankish king, Lothar II, made increasingly desperate efforts to divorce his wife, Queen Theutberga, and to marry instead a woman named Waldrada, the mother of his children. Lothar, however, faced opposition to his actions. Kings and bishops from neighbouring kingdoms, and sev…
Divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga
Political Culture and the Changing Role of Countesses, 750–1050
In the early twelfth century, Donizo, an Italian monk, wrote a life of Countess Matilda of Canossa. 2 He began by celebrating Matilda's ancestors, including an account of how after the death of Matilda's father Boniface in 1052, her mother Beatrice ruled the march of Tuscany:Who can narrate how prudently his [Boniface's] wife held honours after his end, living twice ten years and five completed after him.Towns, castles, the march and her own land…
Hincmar of Rheims
"Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims (d.882) is a crucial figure for early medieval European history. As an archbishop for nearly forty years, Hincmar shaped the times in which he lived, advising and admonishing kings, playing a leading role in the Frankish church, and intervening in a range of political and doctrinal disputes. His role in the controversial attempts by King Lothar II to divorce his queen Theutberga has particularly interested researcher…
Carolingian Domesticities
Carolingian ideas of "home" and "family" encompassed a wide range of meanings from physical buildings to kin and free and unfree dependents. Kinship ties played a vital role, both socially and politically, and marriage practices reflected that; Carolingian reforms respected parents' strategies concerning their children's marriages. The Frankish economy was structured around nuclear households, from peasant tenancies to the huge estates presided o…
Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages
Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity. The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud,and moves via Carolingian and Norman France, Siena, Antioch, and high and late medieval England to the eve of the Reformation. Chapt…
W altharius and C arolingian morality
Some recent interpretations of the early medieval Latin poem W altharius have seen it as offering a clerical critique of warrior culture. While the poem is difficult to date accurately, it seems more likely to belong to the ninth than the tenth century. When the poem is analysed in the context of contemporary Frankish works providing moral instruction to lay noblemen, its attitudes towards pride, wealth and warfare can be shown to lie within the …
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World - By Valerie L. Garver
The Invention of a Theology of Abduction
‘Raptus’ , the abduction of women in order to marry them, was seen as a serious problem in Carolingian Francia. This article examines the only Frankish text that provides a theological justification for condemning raptus , Hincmar of Rheims's De coercendo et exstirpando raptu viduarum, puellarum ac sanctimonialium . It shows the difficulties that Hincmar found in providing a coherent theological argument against a practice normally condemned for …
Bound from Either Side’
The article discusses four marriage disputes in ninth‐century Francia which involved noblemen: Count Stephen of the Auvergne, Count Boso of Italy, Baldwin of Flanders and the royal vassal Falcric. All these men were affected by Carolingian reforming measures on consanguineous marriage, divorce and raptus (abduction). The article examines how gender and social status affected the forms of power and the strategies used by different parties in the c…
The Invention of a Theology of Abduction
‘Raptus’ , the abduction of women in order to marry them, was seen as a serious problem in Carolingian Francia. This article examines the only Frankish text that provides a theological justification for condemning raptus , Hincmar of Rheims's De coercendo et exstirpando raptu viduarum, puellarum ac sanctimonialium . It shows the difficulties that Hincmar found in providing a coherent theological argument against a practice normally condemned for …
Bound from Either Side’
The article discusses four marriage disputes in ninth‐century Francia which involved noblemen: Count Stephen of the Auvergne, Count Boso of Italy, Baldwin of Flanders and the royal vassal Falcric. All these men were affected by Carolingian reforming measures on consanguineous marriage, divorce and raptus (abduction). The article examines how gender and social status affected the forms of power and the strategies used by different parties in the c…
The Invention of a Theology of Abduction
‘Raptus’ , the abduction of women in order to marry them, was seen as a serious problem in Carolingian Francia. This article examines the only Frankish text that provides a theological justification for condemning raptus , Hincmar of Rheims's De coercendo et exstirpando raptu viduarum, puellarum ac sanctimonialium . It shows the difficulties that Hincmar found in providing a coherent theological argument against a practice normally condemned for …
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World - By Valerie L. Garver
Carolingian Domesticities
Carolingian ideas of "home" and "family" encompassed a wide range of meanings from physical buildings to kin and free and unfree dependents. Kinship ties played a vital role, both socially and politically, and marriage practices reflected that; Carolingian reforms respected parents' strategies concerning their children's marriages. The Frankish economy was structured around nuclear households, from peasant tenancies to the huge estates presided o…
Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages
Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity. The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud,and moves via Carolingian and Norman France, Siena, Antioch, and high and late medieval England to the eve of the Reformation. Chapt…
W altharius and C arolingian morality
Some recent interpretations of the early medieval Latin poem W altharius have seen it as offering a clerical critique of warrior culture. While the poem is difficult to date accurately, it seems more likely to belong to the ninth than the tenth century. When the poem is analysed in the context of contemporary Frankish works providing moral instruction to lay noblemen, its attitudes towards pride, wealth and warfare can be shown to lie within the …
Hincmar of Rheims
"Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims (d.882) is a crucial figure for early medieval European history. As an archbishop for nearly forty years, Hincmar shaped the times in which he lived, advising and admonishing kings, playing a leading role in the Frankish church, and intervening in a range of political and doctrinal disputes. His role in the controversial attempts by King Lothar II to divorce his queen Theutberga has particularly interested researcher…
The divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga
Between 858 and 869, an unprecedented scandal played out in Frankish Europe, becoming the subject of gossip not only in palaces and cathedrals. It was in these years that a Frankish king, Lothar II, made increasingly desperate efforts to divorce his wife, Queen Theutberga, and to marry instead a woman named Waldrada, the mother of his children. Lothar, however, faced opposition to his actions. Kings and bishops from neighbouring kingdoms, and sev…
Divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga
Political Culture and the Changing Role of Countesses, 750–1050
In the early twelfth century, Donizo, an Italian monk, wrote a life of Countess Matilda of Canossa. 2 He began by celebrating Matilda's ancestors, including an account of how after the death of Matilda's father Boniface in 1052, her mother Beatrice ruled the march of Tuscany:Who can narrate how prudently his [Boniface's] wife held honours after his end, living twice ten years and five completed after him.Towns, castles, the march and her own land…
Overlooked Husbands
Unfree people in the Roman world could not legally marry, while they could in the Middle Ages. This paper explores the marriage of the unfree in the Carolingian empire (750–900 CE), a society with an intense moral concern about marriage. Carolingian churchmen wrote extensively about marriage, using a strongly gendered discourse focusing on how men should approach marriage and behave as husbands. However, these moral and legal texts rarely discuss…
Ruth Mazo Karras. Thou Art the Man
Studying medieval masculinity is difficult. Medievalists exploring the cultural construction of manliness, individuals’ social performance of their gender, or the subjectivity of a man’s gendered identity run up against texts that rarely discuss masculinity explicitly. How do we discover aspects of men’s actions and thoughts taken for granted by medieval cultures when we lack the thick descriptions of modern ethnography and the few male subjectiv…
Individual Placement and Support (IPS) for High School Aged Youth
Learning to Be Noble in the Middle Ages
Charlemagne and Rome
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 …
The Public Histories and Private History of Janet L. (Jinty) Nelson, 1942–2024)
History (10 works) · Medieval Literature and History (10 works) · Art (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)