IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1005: Political Power and Literacy in the Early Medieval West: The Cultural and Theological Context
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Universidad CEU San Pablo, Madrid |
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Organiser: | Ana B. Sánchez-Prieto, Facultad de Ciencias de la Documentacion, Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
Moderator/Chair: | Ana B. Sánchez-Prieto, Facultad de Ciencias de la Documentacion, Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
Paper 1005-a | Reges litterati: Literacy and Royal Authority in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Lay Piety, Mentalities, Political Thought |
Paper 1005-b | Lay Patronage, Book Collectors, and Social Status in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Lay Piety, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities |
Paper 1005-c | The Baptism of Sigebert III and its Historical Significance: Kingship, Sanctity, and Identity in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Lay Piety, Mentalities, Theology |
Abstract | Lay literacy in the Early Middle Ages has often been a question to debate already for a long time. To what extent the ruling lay elites had access to reading and writing and how literacy was used as a means to exercise lay power and at the same time how written culture was used by Church leaders to reshape the mental frame of the war-like feudal aristocracy are some of the issues explored in this session. |