IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1520: Transformation and Renewal in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Societies, IV: Early Medieval Governance
Thursday 9 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
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: | Ralph Mathisen, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Respondent: | Stefan Esders, Geschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
Paper 1520-a | Reflections of Roman Law in the Early Medieval leges (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Law, Mentalities |
Paper 1520-b | Choosing Where to Contest Power in 9th- and 10th-Century England and France: Did Rebels Think of Rome? (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Military History, Political Thought |
Paper 1520-c | Communications and Information as Tools of Ottonian Governance (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: |