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IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 248: Minor Annals, I: Alternative Voices in Frankish Historiography

Monday 2 July 2018, 14.15-15.45

Organisers:Sören Kaschke, Department of History, King's College London
Bart Jeremy van Hees, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht
Moderator/Chairs:Ricky Broome, Leeds Institute for Clinical Trials Research (LICTR), University of Leeds
N Yavuz, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet
Paper 248-aDocuments of Saxon Violence: The Saxon Wars in the Frankish Minor Annals
(Language: English)
Robert Flierman, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 248-bChristian Language in the Frankish 'Minor' Annals: Reception and Rejection
(Language: English)
Robert A. H. Evans, Sidney Sussex College / Christ Church, University of Cambridge
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Rhetoric
Paper 248-cMinor Annals in a Major Historiographical Compendium: The Case of Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. Lat. 213
(Language: English)
Bart Jeremy van Hees, Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract

The so-called 'minor' Frankish annals can be seen as the product of a multi-generational and multi-regional debate about the Carolingian past. In the first session of this strand, Robert Flierman focuses on the diverse ways the Saxons were portrayed across several annals and their manuscripts. Bob Evans looks at changes in late 8th-century Carolingian history writing with regard to divine agency, and the role of minor annals in that process. Finally, Bart van Hees takes on the chain of chronicles in Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. Lat. 213 and its version of the Annales Laureshamenses acting as linchpin between Fredegar's world chronicle and the Royal Frankish Annnals.