Roy Flechner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5747112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Flechner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Flechner |
| SIGNATURE | FLECHNER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4432-7983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Bible to Law in the Early Middle Ages. Adaptations of the Old Testament in the Collectio Hibernensis and King Alfred’s Law-Book
Two law books of the early Middle Ages stand out for their heavy reliance on the Old Testament, which was rarely quoted in legal texts of the period. The Irish Hibernensis and King Alfred’s Domboc drew not only on the Old Testament itself, but also on adapted biblical verses. An investigation into the literary roots of these legal compilations uncovers parabiblical material which formed part of a literate discourse that spanned Ireland, Wessex an…
Richard Sharpe (1954–2020)
Richard Sharpe (1954–2020) was a medieval historian in the broadest sense but also a historian of the book in the broadest sense, and a diplomatist. There were, in addition, many side interests and ‘distractions’, as he called them, some of which culminated in books or (‘What is not a book?’, as he would ask) book-length articles. Here we reflect on his contribution to the fields with which his reputation is most closely associated: the study of …
Moral restraints on wealth accumulation on papal estates in the long sixth century
Alienation of church property was in most cases forbidden under both imperial and ecclesiastical legislation. Nevertheless, between 592 and 599 Pope Gregory the Great dealt with ten cases in which property was either relinquished by churches or in which he deliberated whether to compel churches to relinquish property. His justification for disposing of it was always moral and it allows us an important insight into the limits of holding church pro…
The Laws of Alfred
The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries
Religious institutions in early medieval Europe were both recipients of former slaves and instigators of manumissions. By drawing on recent work concerning the admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries, the present paper identifies dominant strands in the historiography from Marc Bloch to the present, which are then re‐evaluated in light of a close examination of core sources. The paper argues that while the contention that such in…
The Chronicle of Pseudo-Origen
Fourteen excerpts from a text modelled on a world chronicle survive as quotations in the late seventh- or early eighth-century Collectio Hibernensis. This chronicle-like text associated with the name Origen - arguably an Irish sage with a patristic pseudonym - might also have been a source for the Historia Brittonum. Is this the earliest ‘chronicle’ from Ireland or a figment of seventhcentury imaginative Insular scholarship
Saint Patrick Retold
Transforming Landscapes of Belief in the Early Medieval Insular World and Beyond
Conversion to Christianity is arguably the most revolutionary social and cultural change that Europe experienced throughout Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Christianization affected all strata of society and transformed not only religious beliefs and practices, but also the nature of government, the priorities of the economy, the character of kinship, and gender relations. It is against this backdrop that an international array of leadi…
From Paganism to Christianity in the Insular World
The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World
This paper takes a fresh look at the relationship between Christian conversion and economic change in Anglo-Saxon England, drawing upon new archaeological evidence from Kent. One of its primary aims is to exploit the archaeological record to provide a critical perspective on how these two processes may have related to one another, paying particular attention to previous assumptions concerning the role played by monastic institutions in the proces…
The C hronicle of I reland
This is the first systematic analysis of the contents of the earliest monastic chronicle in the L atin west, the so‐called C hronicle of I reland, which spans the years 431/2–911. It aims to establish the reasons for which the C hronicle was compiled, unravel the process of compilation, and challenge the generic classification of the C hronicle and other E uropean chronicles of this kind as works of historiography. As an alternative, it is propos…
St Boniface as historian
Boniface and Bede relied for the most part on the same sources of information for learning about the early Anglo-Saxon church, yet their accounts differ on a number of crucial points pertaining to church organization and the importance of London as an ecclesiastical centre. The present article takes a close look at Boniface's methods of conducting research into the past, and asks how they compared with Bede's. By focusing on Boniface's account of…
Christians and Pagans
Conversion to Christianity has been, and continues to be, a central component in medieval British history university courses. Until recently, the textbook of choice for teachers has been Henry Mayr-Harting’s classic, The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England, first published in 1972 (rev. ante, lxxxix [1974], 146–7), and subsequently re-issued twice with revisions (in 1977 and 1991). In 2005 the medieval British history shelf received an …
The C hronicle of I reland
This is the first systematic analysis of the contents of the earliest monastic chronicle in the L atin west, the so‐called C hronicle of I reland, which spans the years 431/2–911. It aims to establish the reasons for which the C hronicle was compiled, unravel the process of compilation, and challenge the generic classification of the C hronicle and other E uropean chronicles of this kind as works of historiography. As an alternative, it is propos…
The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries
Religious institutions in early medieval Europe were both recipients of former slaves and instigators of manumissions. By drawing on recent work concerning the admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries, the present paper identifies dominant strands in the historiography from Marc Bloch to the present, which are then re‐evaluated in light of a close examination of core sources. The paper argues that while the contention that such in…
St Boniface as historian
Boniface and Bede relied for the most part on the same sources of information for learning about the early Anglo-Saxon church, yet their accounts differ on a number of crucial points pertaining to church organization and the importance of London as an ecclesiastical centre. The present article takes a close look at Boniface's methods of conducting research into the past, and asks how they compared with Bede's. By focusing on Boniface's account of…
Christians and Pagans
Conversion to Christianity has been, and continues to be, a central component in medieval British history university courses. Until recently, the textbook of choice for teachers has been Henry Mayr-Harting’s classic, The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England, first published in 1972 (rev. ante, lxxxix [1974], 146–7), and subsequently re-issued twice with revisions (in 1977 and 1991). In 2005 the medieval British history shelf received an …
The C hronicle of I reland
This is the first systematic analysis of the contents of the earliest monastic chronicle in the L atin west, the so‐called C hronicle of I reland, which spans the years 431/2–911. It aims to establish the reasons for which the C hronicle was compiled, unravel the process of compilation, and challenge the generic classification of the C hronicle and other E uropean chronicles of this kind as works of historiography. As an alternative, it is propos…
The Introduction of Christianity into the Early Medieval Insular World
This paper takes a fresh look at the relationship between Christian conversion and economic change in Anglo-Saxon England, drawing upon new archaeological evidence from Kent. One of its primary aims is to exploit the archaeological record to provide a critical perspective on how these two processes may have related to one another, paying particular attention to previous assumptions concerning the role played by monastic institutions in the proces…
From Paganism to Christianity in the Insular World
Transforming Landscapes of Belief in the Early Medieval Insular World and Beyond
Conversion to Christianity is arguably the most revolutionary social and cultural change that Europe experienced throughout Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Christianization affected all strata of society and transformed not only religious beliefs and practices, but also the nature of government, the priorities of the economy, the character of kinship, and gender relations. It is against this backdrop that an international array of leadi…
Saint Patrick Retold
The Chronicle of Pseudo-Origen
Fourteen excerpts from a text modelled on a world chronicle survive as quotations in the late seventh- or early eighth-century Collectio Hibernensis. This chronicle-like text associated with the name Origen - arguably an Irish sage with a patristic pseudonym - might also have been a source for the Historia Brittonum. Is this the earliest ‘chronicle’ from Ireland or a figment of seventhcentury imaginative Insular scholarship
The admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries
Religious institutions in early medieval Europe were both recipients of former slaves and instigators of manumissions. By drawing on recent work concerning the admission of former slaves into churches and monasteries, the present paper identifies dominant strands in the historiography from Marc Bloch to the present, which are then re‐evaluated in light of a close examination of core sources. The paper argues that while the contention that such in…
The Laws of Alfred
Moral restraints on wealth accumulation on papal estates in the long sixth century
Alienation of church property was in most cases forbidden under both imperial and ecclesiastical legislation. Nevertheless, between 592 and 599 Pope Gregory the Great dealt with ten cases in which property was either relinquished by churches or in which he deliberated whether to compel churches to relinquish property. His justification for disposing of it was always moral and it allows us an important insight into the limits of holding church pro…
From Bible to Law in the Early Middle Ages. Adaptations of the Old Testament in the Collectio Hibernensis and King Alfred’s Law-Book
Two law books of the early Middle Ages stand out for their heavy reliance on the Old Testament, which was rarely quoted in legal texts of the period. The Irish Hibernensis and King Alfred’s Domboc drew not only on the Old Testament itself, but also on adapted biblical verses. An investigation into the literary roots of these legal compilations uncovers parabiblical material which formed part of a literate discourse that spanned Ireland, Wessex an…
Richard Sharpe (1954–2020)
Richard Sharpe (1954–2020) was a medieval historian in the broadest sense but also a historian of the book in the broadest sense, and a diplomatist. There were, in addition, many side interests and ‘distractions’, as he called them, some of which culminated in books or (‘What is not a book?’, as he would ask) book-length articles. Here we reflect on his contribution to the fields with which his reputation is most closely associated: the study of …
History (11 works) · Medieval Literature and History (11 works) · Classics (7 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Classics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (4 works)