Week VIII: on the margins

Key words list

 

amicitia (L "friendship," "love," "affection")

Alfred "the Great" -- Anglo-Saxons -- Northumbria -- Mercia -- Wessex

Avars -- Bulgars -- khagan (cf. Turkic khan) -- Slavs -- Magyars

"the Venerable" Bede -- The Ecclesiastical History of the English Peoples -- Alcuin

Beowulf -- Geats -- Hrothgar -- Wealhtheow -- Freawaru -- Unferth -- Grendel -- Heorot -- Hygelac -- Hygd -- Wiglaf

Clovis -- Clothild -- Æðelberht -- Bertha

convent (= female monastery) -- nun -- abbess

Cyril & Methodius -- Cyrillic alphabet -- Moravia -- Bulgars -- Khan Boris

Danube (river)

economic ideal types (cf. Week IV): market (impersonal) -- redistributive (political) -- reciprocal / gift exchange (social)

episcopa / episcopessa (L "bishop's wife"; may sometimes even mean "female bishop")

fealty (< L fides, cf. Week IV) -- homage

fief (rhymes w/ "thief"; L feudum) -- feudal -- feudalism (cf. lord, vassal, fealty, homage)

Frisia -- Dorestad -- Hedeby

Iceland -- Greenland -- Vínland (= Norse settlement in North America) -- Danelaw -- Rus

Île de France

knight

lord -- vassal -- vassalage -- fealty (cf. fief, feudalism)

Louis I "the Pious" -- Lothar -- Louis "the German" -- Charles "the Bald" -- Charles "the Simple [or: Straightforward]"

Normans -- Normandy

Ottonians -- Otto I, II & III -- Gerbert / Sylvester II -- Salians

St Pátraic (Patrick) -- St Columcille

Peace of God -- Truce of God -- castellan

peace-weaver (= OE metaphor for woman, lady)

penitential -- Theodore

primogeniture ("inheritance by the firstborn") -- patrilineal inheritance ("inheritance through the father's line")

ring-giver / ring-breaker (= OE metaphor for generous lord, king) -- bullion

Rhône (river)

Talmud -- Mishnah -- responsum (pl. responsa; cf. rescript, Week IV) -- Mikveh (pl. Mikvot, Hb "purificatory bath") -- Sh'ma ("Hear, O Israel"; Jewish equivalent of the Christian Creed, Muslim Shahada)

Treaty of Verdun

vikings (more properly, "Norse"; cf. ON víkingr, "pirate") -- Magyars -- Saracens

Virgin Mary -- Mariology