IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1316: Paul the Deacon, III: Between Empires and Identities
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Paul Fouracre, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester |
| Paper 1316-a | A Poetic Reverence for Lake Como: Paul the Deacon's Carmen (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1316-b | Ob restaurationem regis: Paul the Deacon on Kingship and the Settlement of the Lombards (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
| 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? |