IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1025: Memoria: Commemoration and Social Status, I

Organisers:	Walter Kettemann, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen Jens Lieven, Historisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Moderator/Chair:	Lynda Rollason, Department of History, Durham University
Paper 1025-a	Between Liturgical Commemoration and Social Representation: Organizing and Highlighting Entries of Names in the Libri Memoriales (Language: English) Walter Kettemann, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen Index terms: Onomastics, Political Thought, Rhetoric, Social History
Paper 1025-b	The Annales Necrologici of Fulda, 9th Century (Language: English) Janneke Raaijmakers, Afdeling Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Religious Life, Social History
Abstract	The early medieval Libri memoriales and other sources of liturgical commemoration transmit not only more than 100,000 names, but also thousands of indications concerning the secular or ecclesiastical status of name-bearers or whole groups of persons. After more than four decades of historical research based on sources of this kind, 'Memorialforschung' still remains a challenge, especially as regards prosopographical research orientated towards social history. With regard to this challenge, the papers of this session will focus on different aspects of prosopography, social status, and social representation that are perceptible and distinguishable in the sources.