IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1027: Politics and Texts in Late Carolingian Europe, I
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter / St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
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| Organiser: | Levi Roach, Department of History, University of Exeter |
| Moderator/Chair: | Levi Roach, Department of History, University of Exeter |
| Paper 1027-a | A War of Words in the Loire Valley, c. 995 (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 1027-b | Flodoard of Rheims and the Council of Trosly, 909 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Law |
| Paper 1027-c | Representations of Ottonian Women: Politics and Sanctity in the 10th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Lay Piety |
| Abstract | In recent years, there has been substantial re-evaluation of traditional methodological approaches to medieval texts, from narrative histories to documentary sources. Historians have increasingly taken stock of the interdependence of textual aspects such as audience, reception, dissemination, authorial agenda and the relationships between cultural and political elites. This reappraisal has inspired renewed interest in earlier Carolingian political history. However, the so-called 'post-Carolingian' world of the 10th century has yet to be thoroughly investigated on the same terms. How did texts produced in the late 9th- and 10th-century political climate differ from those of the preceding century? Is it possible to refashion the traditional political narrative of late Carolingian fragmentation and decline by reassessing the foundations on which this very narrative has been constructed? Our intention is to draw together recent work on the theme of political discourse in the written sources of this period. |