Hincmar of Rheims

Rachel Stone is Research Associate at King's College, LondonCharles West is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield

‘Its fourteen contributors seek, in distinct but complementary ways, to draw together Hincmar’s life and work in order to understand better not only the man himself, but also the late Carolingian world which is so often evoked through his writings.’Ingrid Rembold, Hertford College, University of Oxford, Early Medieval Europe Vol. 25 Issue 2'The editors are to be commended for bringing together a set of perceptive and well-researched studies (ninety-three pages of endnotes in 288 pages of text with an uncommonly detailed index) that ask the right questions and will prompt new thinking about one of the Carolingian age’s great figures.'H-France Review

• 1. Introduction – Rachel Stone2. The bearing of Hincmar’s life on his historical writing – Janet L. Nelson3. To fight with words: the case of Hincmar of Laon in the Annals of St. Bertin – Christine Kleinjung4. An unfortunate necessity? Hincmar and Lothar I – Elina Screen5. ‘We are between the hammer and the anvil’: Hincmar in the crisis of 875 – Clémentine Bernard-Valette6. Hincmar’s influence during Louis the Stammerer’s reign – Margaret McCarthy7. Hincmar and his Roman legal sources – Simon Corcoran8. ‘Hincmar et la loi’ revisited: on Hincmar’s use of capitularies – Philippe Depreux9. The bishop and the law, according to Hincmar’s Life of Saint Remigius – Marie-Céline Isaïa10. Family order and kingship according to Hincmar – Sylvie Joye11. ‘The praetor does concern himself with trifles’: Hincmar, the polyptych of St-Remi of Rheims and the slaves of Courtisols – Josiane Barbier12. Hincmar’s parish priests – Charles West13. Heresy in the flesh: Gottschalk of Orbais and the predestination controversy in the archdiocese of Rheims – Matthew Bryan Gillis14. Hincmar, priests and Pseudo-Isidore. The case of Trising in context – Mayke de JongBibliography of primary sourcesSelect bibliography of secondary literatureIndex