IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1320: Transformation and Renewal in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Societies, III: Late Roman and Early Medieval Leadership
Wednesday 8 July 2015, 16.30-18.00
Organisers: | Guido M. Berndt, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Laury Sarti, Geschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin Roland Steinacher, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
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Moderator/Chair: | Walter Pohl, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien |
Respondent: | Steffen Patzold, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
Paper 1320-a | Christian Ideology and Kingship in the Post-Imperial West (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought |
Paper 1320-b | Warlords and Kings: Some Thoughts about Classifying Leadership in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Historiography - Medieval, Military History, Political Thought |
Paper 1320-c | Topographies of Empire in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
Abstract | This series of five sessions aims at discussing the current state of research on reform and renewal in the transforming Roman West in the Early Middle Ages. The post-Roman world emerged from ancient structures but at the same time it was based on new political, social and economic factors and features. These new and old elements - both Roman and non-Roman - were continuously renewed and reformed during the subsequent centuries, while Rome remained an important constitutive force to the post-Roman societies under barbarian leadership, as those emerging in Italy, Spain, Gaul, Britain and Africa. The aim of the sessions is to present and discuss current pieces of research by focussing on several key aspects and questions related to this gradual change. Paper -a: Paper -b: Paper -c: |