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(Re-)Introducing Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources: A New Journal (Series) with an Old Purpose (2025)
Book Chapter
(2025). (Re-)Introducing Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources: A New Journal (Series) with an Old Purpose. In G. Barrett, & L. J. Wilkinson (Eds.), Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources 4.1 (2025) (1-3). Arc Humanities Press

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources, the transformative successor to Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History (first published in 1964), provides a unique venue for scholars to offer fresh readings of evidence from the period 400–1600. Thi... Read More about (Re-)Introducing Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources: A New Journal (Series) with an Old Purpose.

Ordeal by Innocents: the Law and Liturgy of Trial by Water in Early Medieval Iberia (2024)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G. (2024). Ordeal by Innocents: the Law and Liturgy of Trial by Water in Early Medieval Iberia. In G. Barrett, & L. J. Wilkinson (Eds.), Lincoln Readings of Texts, Materials, and Contexts (187-235). ARC Humanities Press

This article studies trial by hot water in late antique and early medieval Iberia across three genres of source material. I first consider the marginal position of the law on “the ordeal of the cauldron” in the oldest copies of the Visigothic code, a... Read More about Ordeal by Innocents: the Law and Liturgy of Trial by Water in Early Medieval Iberia.

Introducing Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources. A Statement of Purpose (2024)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G., & Wilkinson, L. J. (2024). Introducing Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources. A Statement of Purpose. In G. Barrett, & L. J. Wilkinson (Eds.),

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources, the transformative successor to Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History (first published in 1964), provides a unique venue for scholars to offer fresh readings of evidence from the period 400–1600. Thi... Read More about Introducing Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Sources. A Statement of Purpose.

Conservatism in Language: Framing Latin in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia (2023)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G. (2023). Conservatism in Language: Framing Latin in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia. In A. Mullen, & G. Woudhuysen (Eds.), Languages and Communities in the Late-Roman and Post-Imperial Western Provinces (85-125). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198888956.003.0004

This chapter sketches the general features of Latin in the Iberian Peninsula in its late antique and early medieval context: from 400 to 700, in contact with Greek, Hebrew, and trace Germanic and British Celtic elements, and from 700 to 1000, in dial... Read More about Conservatism in Language: Framing Latin in Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia.

Justus Heurnius, Admonition on Undertaking the Gospel Mission to the Indies (2023)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G. (2023). Justus Heurnius, Admonition on Undertaking the Gospel Mission to the Indies. In M. Frederiks (Ed.), Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources, 2. 1500-1700 (254-258). Bloomsbury

This is an introduction and translation of a Latin primary source illustrating an episode in the history of Christian-Muslim relations, part of a larger sourcebook on this theme from 1500 to 1700.

Sourcebook Entries (12) (2023)
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Barrett, G. (2023). Sourcebook Entries (12). In D. Thomas, J. P. Monferrer-Sala, J. Palitzsch, T. Carlson, & G. Barrett (Eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources, 1. 600-1500 (259-62, 270-73, 278-81, 291-4, 304-6, 314-17, 332-5, 335-8, 349-51, 354-6, 377-80, 385-9.). Bloomsbury

‘Latin and Romance Writings on Islam’, ‘Chronicle of 754’, ‘Book of Pontiffs’, ‘Chronicle of Albelda’, ‘Rodolfus Glaber, Five Books of Histories’, ‘Book of Testaments of Lorvão’, ‘Francis of Assisi, Rules of the Friars Minor’, ‘Jacques de Vitry, Hist... Read More about Sourcebook Entries (12).

Empire and the Politics of Faction: Mérida and Toledo Revisited (2023)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G. (2023). Empire and the Politics of Faction: Mérida and Toledo Revisited. In D. Fernández, M. Lester, & J. Wood (Eds.), Rome and Byzantium in the Visigothic Kingdom: Beyond Imitatio Imperii (277-315). Amsterdam University Press

When Reccared presided over the conversion of the Visigoths in 589, the chronicler John of Biclarum wrote that he embodied the emperor Constantine at Nicaea, Marcian at Chalcedon. It is tempting to see state formation in Late Antiquity through the le... Read More about Empire and the Politics of Faction: Mérida and Toledo Revisited.

Promoting Active Engagement with Text-Based Resources in Large First-Year Modules in History (2022)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G., Chandler, J., Wood, J., & East, M. (2022). Promoting Active Engagement with Text-Based Resources in Large First-Year Modules in History. In A. M. Farrell, & A. Logan (Eds.), Pedagogy for Higher Education Large Classes (PHELC): Proceedings of the Fourth PHELC Symposium (40-44). Dublin City University. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7045749

In large courses it can be particularly challenging to engage students in active reading practices. The shift over the last decade to the use of digital sources, and during the pandemic the adoption of online teaching, has further exacerbated the pro... Read More about Promoting Active Engagement with Text-Based Resources in Large First-Year Modules in History.

Dictionary Entries (27) (2022)
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Barrett, G. (2022). Dictionary Entries (27). In A. Louth (Ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Vol. 1: 1-2, 264, 313, 533, 684, 890, 1041; Vol. 2: 1104-6, 1134, 1135, 1168, 1466, 1467-8, 1524, 1543, 1581, 1672, 1710-11, 1721, 1792, 1796-7, 1822-5, 1872-3, 2029, 2031-2, 2035-6.). (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780199642465.001.0001

‘Abbo (or Abbon), St’, ‘Boniface I, St’, ‘Callistus (or Calixtus) I, St’, ‘Decretum Gelasianum’, ‘Fabricius, Johann Albert’, ‘Hilary of Poitiers, St’, ‘Jovinian’, ‘Latin’, ‘Liberian Catalogue’, ‘Liber Pontificalis’, ‘Lucy, St’, ‘Paula, St’, ‘Paulinus... Read More about Dictionary Entries (27).

Sourcebook Entries (6) (2022)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G. (2022). Sourcebook Entries (6). In D. Thomas, J. P. Monferrer-Sala, T. Carlson, J. Pahlitzsch, & G. Barrett (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, 600-1500 (217-20, 224-7, 235-8, 251-4, 270-73, 295-8.). Bloomsbury

‘Latin and Romance Writings on Islam’, ‘Book of Pontiffs’, ‘Chronicle of Albelda’, ‘Book of Testaments of Lorvão’, ‘Francis of Assisi, Rules of the Friars Minor’, ‘Ramon Llull, Book of the Gentile and the Three Wise Men’.

Hispania at Home and Abroad (2020)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G. (2020). Hispania at Home and Abroad. In S. Barton, & R. Portass (Eds.), Beyond the Reconquista: New Directions in the History of Medieval Iberia (711-1085). In Honour of Simon Barton (52-119). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004423879_004

How do I get to early medieval Hispania, and can you meet me there? If we go looking, we can find it, but not where we might expect. More than a few contemporaries gave this some thought, and all who did so pointed to the same spot – at least at firs... Read More about Hispania at Home and Abroad.

God’s Librarian: Isidore of Seville and His Literary Agenda (2019)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G. (2019). God’s Librarian: Isidore of Seville and His Literary Agenda. In A. Fear, & J. Wood (Eds.), A Companion to Isidore of Seville (42-100). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004415454_004

What I hope to show in the following pages is that Isidore of Seville, seen in the mirror of his own words, aimed not to become catechist to centuries of priests and monks, nor indeed to achieve any great stylistic or generic innovation as such, but... Read More about God’s Librarian: Isidore of Seville and His Literary Agenda.

Dictionary Entries (38) (2018)
Book Chapter
Barrett, G. (2018). Dictionary Entries (38). In O. Nicholson (Ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity (Vol. 1: 41-2, 167, 197, 220, 262, 318-19, 326, 379, 416, 482, 532-3, 564, 607, 637, 663, 670, 726, 751-2, 762, 790; Vol. 2: 890, 896-7, 914-15, 926-7, 1047, 1156, 1291, 1368, 1406-9, 1454-5, 1475-6, 1507, 1569-71, 1577.). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780198662778.001.0001

‘Alaric II’, ‘Astigi’, ‘Balearic Islands’, ‘Basques’, ‘Braulio’, ‘charters, Spanish’, ‘Chindasuinth’, ‘Conimbriga and Aeminium’, ‘Corunna (La Coruña; Roman Brigantium)’, ‘Didymus and Verinianus’, ‘Els Munts’, ‘Euric’, ‘formulae (formularies)’, ‘Galla... Read More about Dictionary Entries (38).