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This is the editor's epilogue, from Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia: A Cultural Crossroad... more This is the editor's epilogue, from Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia: A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe. It is available through the link to my own webpage.
Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia: A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe. Ed. and trans. James D'Emilio. Leiden: Brill, pp. 282-342, 2015
In this article, I argue that the charter of Theodenandus, a document of 902 copied into the cart... more In this article, I argue that the charter of Theodenandus, a document of 902 copied into the cartulary of Samos, is an authentic text linked with the court of Alfonso III. I demonstrate as well that it was the basis for the forgery of an elaborate privilege ascribed to Ordoño II and recounting the restoration of Samos in 922. This was an effort to embellish the more humble circumstances surrounding the restoration of Samos and its slow recovery of properties and privileges. For its part, Theodenandus’s charter presents a richly allusive preamble, narrative, and sanction which cast light on diplomatic practice and the religious culture of tenth-century Galicia and the Asturian kingdom, at a time of crisis in traditional monastic institutions.
The Cistercian Arts from the 12th to the 21st Century, eds. Roberto Cassanelli and Terryl Kinder (Montreal: McGill University Press, 2014), 125–144, 418–420.
Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude. Essays on Cistercians, Art and Architecture in Honour of Peter Fergusson, ed. Terryl Kinder, co-edition Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses (Studia et Documenta 13) and Brepols (Medieval Church Studies 11) (Turnhout, 2004), 313-27.
La collaboration dans la production de l'écrit médiéval: actes du XIIIe colloque du Comité international de paléographie latine (Weingarten, 22-25 septembre 2000), ed., Herrad Spilling (Paris: École des Chartes, 2003), 379-410., 2003
True, this is a twenty-year old article, but it was published in a collection that few, if any, a... more True, this is a twenty-year old article, but it was published in a collection that few, if any, art historians saw. Consider this a republication of an "oldie but goodie".
Conferences and Sessions by James DEmilio
The early medieval Galician church is best known as the setting for the birth of the cult of St. ... more The early medieval Galician church is best known as the setting for the birth of the cult of St. James at Compostela, but the Galician landscape was densely settled with churches. These churches had diverse origins and patrons, and, as centers for rural communities, they were places for assemblies and judicial proceedings. Many monastic churches preserved and renewed traditions associated with the 6th-century abbot and bishop Martin of Braga, and the 7th-century abbot and bishop Fructuosus. The papers in this section consider the ecclesiastical landscape of early medieval Galicia, the recording of oaths, and the transmission of monastic and religious literature from Galicia to the British Isles.
Book Reviews by James DEmilio
La Coronica, A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures 41.2 (2013)
The Medieval Review 13.06.03
This is the editor's epilogue, from Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia: A Cultural Crossroad... more This is the editor's epilogue, from Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia: A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe. It is available through the link to my own webpage.
Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia: A Cultural Crossroads at the Edge of Europe. Ed. and trans. James D'Emilio. Leiden: Brill, pp. 282-342, 2015
In this article, I argue that the charter of Theodenandus, a document of 902 copied into the cart... more In this article, I argue that the charter of Theodenandus, a document of 902 copied into the cartulary of Samos, is an authentic text linked with the court of Alfonso III. I demonstrate as well that it was the basis for the forgery of an elaborate privilege ascribed to Ordoño II and recounting the restoration of Samos in 922. This was an effort to embellish the more humble circumstances surrounding the restoration of Samos and its slow recovery of properties and privileges. For its part, Theodenandus’s charter presents a richly allusive preamble, narrative, and sanction which cast light on diplomatic practice and the religious culture of tenth-century Galicia and the Asturian kingdom, at a time of crisis in traditional monastic institutions.
The Cistercian Arts from the 12th to the 21st Century, eds. Roberto Cassanelli and Terryl Kinder (Montreal: McGill University Press, 2014), 125–144, 418–420.
Perspectives for an Architecture of Solitude. Essays on Cistercians, Art and Architecture in Honour of Peter Fergusson, ed. Terryl Kinder, co-edition Cîteaux: Commentarii cistercienses (Studia et Documenta 13) and Brepols (Medieval Church Studies 11) (Turnhout, 2004), 313-27.
La collaboration dans la production de l'écrit médiéval: actes du XIIIe colloque du Comité international de paléographie latine (Weingarten, 22-25 septembre 2000), ed., Herrad Spilling (Paris: École des Chartes, 2003), 379-410., 2003
True, this is a twenty-year old article, but it was published in a collection that few, if any, a... more True, this is a twenty-year old article, but it was published in a collection that few, if any, art historians saw. Consider this a republication of an "oldie but goodie".
The early medieval Galician church is best known as the setting for the birth of the cult of St. ... more The early medieval Galician church is best known as the setting for the birth of the cult of St. James at Compostela, but the Galician landscape was densely settled with churches. These churches had diverse origins and patrons, and, as centers for rural communities, they were places for assemblies and judicial proceedings. Many monastic churches preserved and renewed traditions associated with the 6th-century abbot and bishop Martin of Braga, and the 7th-century abbot and bishop Fructuosus. The papers in this section consider the ecclesiastical landscape of early medieval Galicia, the recording of oaths, and the transmission of monastic and religious literature from Galicia to the British Isles.
Sponsored session at the 2015 International Medieval Congress, Congress, University of Leeds, Jul... more Sponsored session at the 2015 International Medieval Congress, Congress, University of Leeds, July 6-9, 2015. Provisional programme is attached.