IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1109: Shadows of Empire in the Post-Roman West
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Sonderforschungsbereich 700 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood', Freie Universität Berlin |
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| Organiser: | Lukas Bothe, Sonderforschungsbereich 700, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Alice Rio, New College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1109-a | The Paradox of a Purpuratus Refusing the Purple: How Theoderic Ruled the Roman Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1109-b | The Construction of Statehood in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Reign of Edward the Elder (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English, Military History, Political Thought |
| Paper 1109-c | Regulating Vengeance: How to Maintain the Rule of Law in Merovingian Gaul (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Law, Social History |
| Abstract | The 300 years between the 'Fall of the Western Roman Empire' and its Carolingian resurrection are not a blind spot on the political landscape, not even if we restrict our view to the Barbarian West. Compared to its predecessor the successor kingdoms show deficits in both government and governance but nonetheless coped with the processes of political and social disintegration. Rulers as well as commentators frequently harked back to the Roman Empire as an overarching blue print for their own politics or as a reservoir of legitimacy. However, it is not clear to what extent this was purely rhetoric or at which point and in which fields this point of reference stopped to serve its purpose. Besides, in Ostrogothic Italy the connection to the Roman Empire was obvious but which Empire acted as the model for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's recourse to imperial terminology? |