Bibliography

Julia M. H.
Smith
s. xx–xxi

5 publications between 1986 and 2016 indexed
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2016

work
Smith, Julia M. H., Relics and the Insular world, c.600-c.850, Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lectures, 15, Cambridge: ASNC, 2016.

1992

work
Smith, Julia M. H., Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, Fourth Series, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.  
abstract:
This book offers ideas about the processes of political and cultural change in the early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between the centre and periphery of the Carolingian empire, in particular on the development of Brittany as a territorial principality in the ninth and tenth centuries. A major theme is the interaction of Carolingian imperial policies, Frankish aristocratic feuding, and local Breton communities. Other issues discussed include economy and society in Brittany and Neustria, the impact of Carolingian imperialism on local Breton communities, changes in the political, ecclesiastical and social structures arising from Carolingian overlordship of Brittany, the interaction of Celtic and Carolingian culture, and the construction of an early medieval ethnic identity. The book shows how regional autonomy and self-regulating villages were as integral to the Carolingian world as court politics, cultural imperialism and frontier strife, and it argues that, in order to understand both the establishment and the collapse of the Carolingian empire, politics at the periphery demand as much attention as politics at the centre.
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abstract:
This book offers ideas about the processes of political and cultural change in the early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between the centre and periphery of the Carolingian empire, in particular on the development of Brittany as a territorial principality in the ninth and tenth centuries. A major theme is the interaction of Carolingian imperial policies, Frankish aristocratic feuding, and local Breton communities. Other issues discussed include economy and society in Brittany and Neustria, the impact of Carolingian imperialism on local Breton communities, changes in the political, ecclesiastical and social structures arising from Carolingian overlordship of Brittany, the interaction of Celtic and Carolingian culture, and the construction of an early medieval ethnic identity. The book shows how regional autonomy and self-regulating villages were as integral to the Carolingian world as court politics, cultural imperialism and frontier strife, and it argues that, in order to understand both the establishment and the collapse of the Carolingian empire, politics at the periphery demand as much attention as politics at the centre.
(source: publisher)

1990

article
Smith, Julia M. H., “Oral and written: saints, miracles and relics in Brittany, c. 850–1250”, Speculum 65 (1990): 309–343.

1986

article
Smith, Julia M. H., “Culte imperial et politique frontalière dans la vallée de la Vilaine: le témoignage des diplômes carolingiens dans le Cartulaire de Redon”, in: Marc Simon (ed.), Landévennec et le monachisme breton dans le haut Moyen Âge: actes du colloque du 15e centenaire de l’abbaye de Landévennec, 25-26-27 avril 1985, Association Landévennec 485–1985, Landévennec: Association Landévennec, 1986. 129–139.
article
Smith, Julia M. H., “The sack of Vannes by Pippin III”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 11 (Summer, 1986): 17–27.