IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1109: Hincmar's 9th Century, II: Hincmar's Writing Methods
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Rachel Stone, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge / Department of History, King's College London Charles West, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rachel Stone, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge / Department of History, King's College London |
| Paper 1109-a | Hincmar and the Use and Abuse of Roman Legal Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Paper 1109-b | Picking a 9th-Century Author's Brain: Observing Hincmar at Work on His Treatise about King Lothar's Divorce (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1109-c | Nonius from Alcuin to Hincmar (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Hincmar of Rheims' writings make copious use of earlier works: this session looks at his composition methods from three different angles. The first paper explores how Hincmar adapts several patristic and monastic texts he uses to produce his own distinctive views on ecclesiology, while the second uses Hincmar's working copy of his text De Divortio to flesh out details of his methods of compilation. The last paper situates Hincmar's writing within the broader current of Carolingian scholars' fascination with the classics, exploring the use by Hincmar and others of the lexicographical work of Nonius. |