IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 709: Visions of Community, III: Negotiating Empire in the Ninth Century
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Sonderforschungsbereich 'Visions of Community', Österreichischer Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung / Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien |
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| Organiser: | Rutger Kramer, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Steffen Patzold, Abteilung für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen |
| Paper 709-a | Preaching Unity/Diversity (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Theology |
| Paper 709-b | Dial D for Debate: Religious Controversies and Social Concerns in the 9th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
| Paper 709-c | Imperial Reflections in Alemannic Formularies (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Monasticism, Political Thought |
| Abstract | This session will focus on strategies employed by individual communities in the Carolingian realms to incorporate the influence of an overarching empire in their social realities, and to adapt to its effects on the formation of their own identity. To that effect, Maximilian Diesenberger will first look at a number of sermons from different parts of the realms, analysing and interpreting various strategies of audience inclusion across time and space. Remaining in Alemannia, Bernhard Zeller will take a closer look at some of the formularies stemming from that region; apart from their primary function as collections of model texts, these sources also functioned as repositories of the past, and repertories for an (imperial) future. |