Rob Meens, Dorine van Espelo, Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Janneke Raaijmakers, Irene van Renswode, and Carine van Rhijn, eds. <i>Religious Franks: Religion and Power in the Frankish Kingdoms: Studies in Honour of Mayke de Jong</i>. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016, pp. 559.
Scott G. Bruce
We have entered the golden age of English-language Carolingian Festshrift . As formidable generation historians who came in 1970s and 1980s begins to retire, their many students are honoring them with collections essays that chart landscape academic field teachers labored so diligently shape. In recent years, Janet Nelson (2008), John Contreni (2013), Thomas F. X. Noble (2014), Rosamund McKitterick (2018) each been recipients such volumes. book under review, honoree is Mayke de Jong, chair medieval history at Utrecht University. Her colleagues assembled twenty-five articles about religion power world as a testament vision enduring influence Jong’s pioneering work this field. explains her introductory essay, Jong has always “an adventurous explorer, ever pushing boundaries both political discourse relation action fundamentally religious context” (p. 5) If we take for granted today close proximity politics early world, it largely due formative scholarship Jong.
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