IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1016: Paul the Deacon, I: Between Empires and Identities
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Zachary Guiliano, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge Christopher Heath, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rosamond McKitterick, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1016-a | What Paul Does Not Say (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1016-b | Physical Beauty, Moral Beauty in the Historia langobardorum of Paul the Deacon (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1016-c | Paul, Empires, and the 'New' Lombard Kingship (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought |
| Abstract | As an individual, Paul the Deacon's life embodied that of a scholar, exegete, and writer who stood at the boundary between the end of one kingdom and its re-configuration into a wider European entity. How Paul negotiated this change on a personal level has pre-occupied scholars from the 19th-century onward and has been the subject of two conferences in Udine (1899 and 1999). This session of linked papers aims to explore the impact of the events of 774 upon Paul as an individual but also his responses revealed in his own works, thought, and activities. How did Paul engage with the Roman past and imperium? How did he portray the Byzantine empire in Italy and beyond? How did his activities, at the heart of the Carolingian programme of correctio, assist in the theological and theoretical foundations of the constellation of the Carolingian empire? |