IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 606: Texts and Identities, V: Louis the Pious and the Crisis of the Carolingian Empire, 1
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Richard Corradini, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Philippe Depreux, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Université de Limoges / Institut Universitaire de France Maximilian Diesenberger, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Stefan Esders, Geschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin Steffen Patzold, Historisches Seminar, Universität Tübingen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London |
| Paper 606-a | Places of Power in the Realm of Louis the Pious (Language: English) |
| Paper 606-b | Louis the Pious in Francia orientalis: Support and Adversity (Language: English) |
| Abstract | The second half of the reign of Louis the Pious is usually considered a time of crisis and of decline, in which the Frankish empire started to dissolve amid internal rebellions and external pressure. Yet the uncertainty of those times also provoked the development of new concepts for restructuring a society in turmoil. A transformation of the medieval world was thus effected, marked by an unprecedented rethinking of both the obligations of kingship and those of ecclesiastical and lay offices. |