The Vandals and Sarmatians in a New Perspective by Roman Zaroff

“…This study discusses the relations between the peoples known as Sarmatians, Alans, Vandals, and other groups in the context of fluid identities and political affinities of Late Antiquity and early medieval Europe. It is argued that the Van-dals underwent a substantial transformation from being dominantely farmers to centre on horse breeding and mounted warfare. …”
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Blathmac i jego "Poemat" poświęcony Dziewicy Maryi by Anna Szewczyk

“… The author presents the poem on the Virgin Mary, the oldest in Ireland and one of the oldest in the Early Medieval Europe. This poem wrote Irish monk of the monastery on Iona, Blathmac (+ 825). …”
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Crisis? What Crisis? Political articulation and government in the March of Tuscany through placita and diplomas from Guy of Spoleto to Berengar II by Igor Santos Salazar

“…In the last decades, much work have been done to deconstruct the mechanisms of government in Early Medieval Europe. In that task, the interpretation of the settlement of disputes and royal/imperial diplomas as the basis of the central government strategies in local spheres has been underlined by recent historiography. …”
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Powołanie Kierownictwa Badań nad Początkami Państwa Polskiego by Adrianna Szczerba

“…These millennial studies have improved the state of our knowledge on the origins of the Polish statehood and the importance of Poland on the map of early medieval Europe. They also played an important social and political role in developing national consciousness of the Polish society after changing the borders in 1945.…”
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5000 years of glass / by Tait, Hugh, editor

The late Holocene demise of a sublittoral oyster bed in the North Sea. by Lasse Sander, H Christian Hass, Rune Michaelis, Christopher Groß, Tanja Hausen, Bernadette Pogoda

“…Synchronicity of increased geomorphological activity of rivers and concurrent major land use changes in early medieval Europe suggest that increased sedimentation was a viable stressor that reduced the performance of the oysters. …”
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Early nomads of the Eastern Steppe and their tentative connections in the West by Alexander Savelyev, Choongwon Jeong

“…As debatable is the evidence linking these two groups with the steppe nomads of early medieval Europe, i.e. the Huns and the Avars, respectively. …”
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Growing Differences between the West and the East of Europe in the Transition to the Middle Ages. Review of: Föller, C., & Schulz, F. (Eds.). (2016). Osten und Westen 400–600 n. Ch... by Aleksandr Sergeevich Kozlov

“…Also, the reviewer points out the controversy of solving issues related to the way the researchers present the key issues of the history of early medieval Europe, especially as combined with their attempts to reach these issues through rather narrow subjects. …”
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Iustitia and Corruptio in Liber Constitutionum sive Lex Gundobada by Dorothea Valentinova

“…These codes are one of the significant and true sources for the historical reconstruction of the socio-political, socio-cultural, and legal-administrative transition from the late Roman Empire to the German kingdoms and early medieval Europe. They manifest how historically the arena of clashes, confrontations, and wars between Romanitas and Barbaritas gradually became a contact zone of legal reception, of cultural, legal, and socio-political influences, from which a new world will be born, a successor to the old ones, and a new legal system – the Romano-Germanic one.…”
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Making Place for a Viking Fortress. An archaeological and geophysical reassessment of Aggersborg, Denmark by Hannah Brown, Helen Goodchild, Søren M. Sindbæk

“…They offer a case for a reassessment of the much-discussed group of so-called ‘Trelleborg’ fortresses, thus adding new substance to models for understanding the political and tactical role of fortified places in Early Medieval Europe.…”
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Passion of st. Vincentius: a little known redaction BHL 8631 and problems of its dating by Eugene Rosenblum

“…Vincentius was so popular in Early Medieval Europe that it generated several redactions of his Passio. …”
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Papal privileges in early medieval England, c. 680-1073 by Savill, B

“…They comprise a genre of written evidence unique among what survives from early medieval Europe in the breadth of their distribution across both time and space. …”