Lettercraft in Early Medieval Europe, 476–751 CE

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Publications

Journal articles

Robert Flierman, ‘Gregory of Tours And the Merovingian letter’, Journal of Medieval History 47:2 (2021), 119–144.

Book chapters

Hope Williard, ‘Letter Carriers and the Scale of Communication in the Epistolae of Sidonius Apollinaris‘, In K. Sessa, & K. Uhalde (Eds.), Scale and the Study of Late Antiquity: Collected Essays from the 14th Meeting of Shifting Frontiers (Edipuglia, 2023), 153–167.

Other publications

Robert Flierman, ‘Column: Postbode’, Tijdschrift voor de Middeleeuwen 34:2 (2020), 91–94.

Presentations

Hope Williard, Gregory of Tours’s Book of the Miracles of the Blessed Andrew the Apostle (A Roundtable), 9 May 2024. Invited Panelist. 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.

Hope Williard. Dictation in Early Medieval Letter Writing, 10 May 2024. Given at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.

Robert Flierman & Hope Williard. Lettercraft in Early Medieval Europe. The Epistolary Strategies of St Radegund (d. 587). 15 April 2024. Invited lecture given at Radboud University Nijmegen. Ancient and Medieval Lecture Series.

Robert Flierman, A Letter from the Border. Franco-Saxon Relations under Charlemagne and Louis the Pious. 21 March 2024. Invited paper given at the Conference Nodes and Networks of Power at the Frontiers of the Carolingian Empire A Political, Cultural, Military and Religious Overview (21-22 March 2024), hosted by the University of Tübingen, Centre for Advanced Studies – Migration and Mobility in the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages.

Robert Flierman, The Lettercrafters. Diversity and Flexibility in Merovingian Epistolary Communication. 8 February 2024. Invited paper given at the Yearly Seminar hosted by Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies (UUCMS).

Robert Flierman, Lettercraft and Epistolary Performance in Merovingian Gaul. 17 January 2024.  Invited lecture given at Universität Münster, Historisches Seminar: Forschungskolloquium: 400-1500.