IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1505: Texts and Identities, XI: The Carolingian Empire in Crisis? - Impacts of Political Crises on Regional and Local Levels as Reflected in Charter Material
Thursday 15 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Institut für Mittelalterforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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| Organisers: | Maximilian Diesenberger, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Bernhard Zeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rosamond McKitterick, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge |
| Respondent: | Mark Mersiowsky, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie, Universität Innsbruck |
| Paper 1505-a | Crisis or Business as Usual?: Political Crises in the Carolingian Empire as Reflected in the Charters of St Gall (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Local History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Political Thought |
| Paper 1505-b | Who is the Boss?: Representation of Royal Authority in the Private Charters of St Gall – or Revisiting Fichtenau's 'Politische Datierungen' (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Local History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Political Thought |
| Abstract | Crisis turned out to be a most inspiring topic at some of the T&I sessions at the IMC 2009. Nonetheless, notably the stress on the recurrent crisis of the Carolingian empire was so dominant that one could not help wondering how the Carolingian empire lasted as long as it did. While these sessions dealt mainly with political crises on the highest, royal level, we would like to focus on the regional and even on the local levels. Did these political crises have an impact on regional or local levels or not? Which crises did so and which did not? In which way did these political crises find a reflection on the regional and local levels? Were they really important in the perceptions and the transactions of people or was it locally business as usual? In our papers we will concentrate specially on the early medieval charters in the archives of the abbey of St Gall. |