IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 108: Small Worlds, Wide Horizons: Local Powers in the Early Middle Ages

Sponsor:	Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Organiser:	Bernhard Zeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Moderator/Chair:	Yitzhak Hen, Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva
Paper 108-a	Priests as Local Power-Brokers, 8th-9th Centuries (Language: English) Steffen Patzold, Fachbereich Geschichtswissenschaft, Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen Index terms: Daily Life, Religious Life
Paper 108-b	Of the Lives of Centenarii and Related Local Powers in Early Medieval Alemannia, 8th-9th Centuries (Language: English) Bernhard Zeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Daily Life, Local History
Paper 108-c	How Local was the Power of the Saio in Northern Iberia, c. 1000? (Language: English) Wendy Davies, Department of History, University College London / University of Oxford Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Daily Life, Law
Abstract	The three papers of the session aim to throw some light on 'local powers' like clerics, lay office-holders, and other persons with a certain importance or influence on a local or regional level in Early Medieval Europe.