| Paper 1318-a | From Gundobad to Charlemagne: Codified Approaches of the Germanic Kingdoms to the Poor within Their Jurisdictions
(Language: English)
Sharon Fischlowitz, Center for Medieval Studies / William Mitchell College of Law, University of Minnesota
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - Latin, Law, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
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| Abstract | Paper -a:
To what degree, if at all, did the Germanic law codes continue the Roman (and Christian) treatment of the poor? The Codex Theodosianus, one legal source of the codes, included provisions addressing the legal needs and social standing of the poor. The Germanic codes, each to varying degrees, codified Germanic customs in modified Roman legal form. Through a close examination of the Lombard and Frankish codes with references to Visigoth, Burgundian and the others, the paper examines the codes for evidence of the approaches of the 'successor states' to the poor within their territorial and personal jurisdictions.
Paper -b:
Considérée dans son acception usuelle, la pauvreté désigne la qualité et après la condition d'un groupe social particulier. Dans le Haut Moyen Age, une telle perception quantitative relève que la dynamique de ce phénomene social se présentait dejá d'une manière différente du pauperisme antique, où était considérée comme l'exemple du Christ. Dans la Gaule mérovingienne du VIe siècle, la mutabilité conceptuel du discours sur la pauvreté indique une possible utilisation politique de l'activité assistentielle. Ayant pour base documentale des canons conciliaires ensemble à quelques données des hagiographies de l'époque, ce travail propose une analyse des implications générées par la fonction qualificative de la pauvreté dans la construction des sujets politiques dans le royaume mérovingien.
Paper -c:
The cultural efforts hallmarked as the Carolingian Renaissance asked significant questions about what constituted the bounds of Christian conduct within Western European society. Within this discourse an extensive rhetoric emerged that linked social stewardship of the poor to institutional power. Carolingian authorities attempted to appropriate the traditional religious sanctity of the poor within the Christian context by rhetorically casting themselves as the protectors and spiritual surrogates of the Carolingian pauperes. The proposed paper will examine this rhetoric of poverty through a range of Carolingian sources to define how notions of power in the Carolingian world were linked to images of Christian stewardship for the poor and to firmly situate the place of the poor within the larger context of the Carolingian renovatio.
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