IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1617: Shaping the Past after the Carolingian Empire, II: Ideals, Place, and Space
Thursday 5 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | After Empire: Using & Not Using the Past in the Crisis of the Carolingian World, c. 900-1050 |
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| Organiser: | Alice Hicklin, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sarah Greer, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Paper 1617-a | Legacies of Empire: Rethinking the Dynamics of the Dano-Saxon-Slav Border in the Late 10th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1617-b | Roman Law as a Bad Custom in 10th-Century Raetia Curiensis (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1617-c | Remembering the Carolingian Past in 10th-Century Italy: The Libellus de imperatoria potestate in urbe Roma (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Memories of the past are contained in all genres of text. In the new political order that arose following the collapse of the Carolingian empire, authors used every tool at their disposal to express their own ideas about what should happen in the here-and-now. The legacies of past empires - both Carolingian and Roman - offered a reservoir of authority that could be wielded in many different ways by their successors. This session examines memories of the imperial past linked to normative discourses in the 10th and 11th centuries, exploring where and how these visions of empire were used to comment on the present. |