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IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1205: Texts and Identities, IX: Government, Mobility, and Communication in the Carolingian Empire under Louis the Pious (814-840), ii

Wednesday 14 July 2010, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Hludowicus Project: www.hludowicus.eu, Agence nationale de la Recherche / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / Institut für Mittelalterforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Organisers: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
Moderator/Chair:Stuart Airlie, Department of History, University of Glasgow
Paper 1205-aAachen, Walahfrid Strabo, and the Crisis of the Carolingian Empire
(Language: English)
Steffen Patzold, Historisches Seminar, Universität Tübingen
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought
Paper 1205-bLouis the Pious on the Road
(Language: English)
Jens Schneider, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, Université de Limoges
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Geography and Settlement Studies, Political Thought
Paper 1205-cHludovicus venator
(Language: English)
Eric J. Goldberg, Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought
Abstract

The second half of the reign of Louis the Pious is usually considered a time of decline, in which the Frankish empire started to dissolve amid internal rebellions and external pressure. However, the manifold challenges of that prolonged crisis also served as points of departure for new ideas and concepts for dealing with the current dangers. Rethinking the obligations of kingship, ecclesiastical office, and the lay aristocracy, the period in question can also be pictured as a time of transformation, in which new ways of doing things were settled. Steffen Patzold takes a fresh look at Walahfrid's poetic consideration of the time of Charlemagne. Jens Schneider concentrates on the whereabouts of Louis the Pious as far as their reconstruction is possible from his diplomata while Eric Goldberg analyses the emperor's use of the hunting tradition as a statesman's instrument.