IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1510: Texts and Identities, V: The Merovingians and Their Past
Thursday 4 July 2013, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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Organisers: | E. T. Dailey, School of History, University of Leeds Gerda Heydemann, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien |
Moderator/Chair: | Helmut Reimitz, Department of History, Princeton University |
Paper 1510-a | Making and Unmaking Chlothar II into a Merovingian: How to Exploit a Family Tree (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Political Thought |
Paper 1510-b | The Origins and Identity of the Franks: The Trojan Narrative in Early Medieval Historiographical Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Mentalities |
Paper 1510-c | Image of Kings Past: The Merovingian Monastic Policies in Burgundy (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Monasticism, Political Thought |
Abstract | This session focuses on the Merovingian interest in the past, and their utilisation of remembrance for contemporary political and social purposes. E. T. Dailey examines the issue of Chlothar II's dubious paternity, and its enduring political potency. N. Kıvılcım Yavuz traces the emergence and development of the Frankish belief in their Trojan origins, and the varying function of this story within a series of historiographical texts. Yaniv Fox investigates the Merovingian policy of royal patronage for monastic intuitions within the Rhône Basin as a self-conscious continuation the polices of a once-independent Burgundian kingdom. |