IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1717: Shaping the Past after the Carolingian Empire, III: Material Culture and Rulership
Thursday 5 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
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: | Alice Hicklin, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
Paper 1717-a | The Transformation of the European Monetary Economy in the 10th and 11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Economics - Trade, Historiography - Medieval, Numismatics |
Paper 1717-b | Embodying the Past: Remembering the Merovingians at their Burial Sites in the 10th and 11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1717-c | Pasts and Presents in the Lothar Crystal (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | Material objects embody the past in multiple ways; their forms, associations and locations could bring to mind manifold memories of past individuals, dynasties and events. In the world after the fall of the Carolingian Empire, the memories of the past embedded in material culture could be used for new contemporary needs, shaped and reshaped for the political present. Objects were inherited, reused and created anew in order to remember, or indeed, forget, the dynasties that had gone before. This session inspects three different kinds of material memories in the 10th and 11th centuries: coinage, tombs, and artwork. |