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IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1227: Politics and Texts in Late Carolingian Europe, III

Wednesday 9 July 2014, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter / St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
Organiser:Levi Roach, Department of History, University of Exeter
Moderator/Chair:Roberta Cimino, Historisches Seminar, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
Paper 1227-aChanging Political Representations of Karlmann of Bavaria
(Language: English)
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Lay Piety, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1227-bPace inter principes stabilita: Duchess Beatrice of Upper Lotharingia in Late 10th-Century Letters and Charters
(Language: English)
Megan Welton, Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1227-cConsidering the Eschatology of Burchard of Worms: An Exploration of Decretum, Liber Vicessimus
(Language: English)
George David House, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter
Index terms: Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching, Theology
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.