IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1607: Law and Empire: Editing the Carolingian Capitularies, II

Thursday 10 July 2014, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Organiser:	Karl Ubl, Historisches Institut, Universität zu Köln
Moderator/Chair:	Simon MacLean, Department of History, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Paper 1607-a	Manuscript Evidence of the Use of the Capitularies (Language: English) Jennifer R. Davis, Department of History, Catholic University of America, Washington DC Index terms: Law, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1607-b	Changing Perceptions of a Carolingian Constitution: The Legal and Historiographical Contexts of the Divisio regnorum in the Early 9th Century (Language: English) Matthias Martin Tischler, Institut d'Estudis Medievals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Index terms: Law, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1607-c	Editing the Capitula legibus addenda, 818-819, of Louis the Pious: Text and Transmission (Language: English) Karl Ubl, Historisches Institut, Universität zu Köln Index terms: Law, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	Legislation in the form of capitularies was a hallmark of Frankish kingship since the 6th century. This instrument of royal power was, however, substantially transformed after the imperial coronation of Charlemagne. The period between 800 and 830 is rightly considered as the heyday of capitulary legislation. The second of two sessions examines the manuscript evidence of the capitularies and will discuss the different uses to which the texts were put during the 9th century.