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IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 504: Waterways in the Age of Charlemagne

Tuesday 3 July 2018, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:Lukas Werther, Institut für Orientalistik, Indogermanistik und Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Moderator/Chair:Stefan Esders, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
Paper 504-aWaterways and Royal Power in the Age of Charlemagne
(Language: English)
Ildar Garipzanov, Institutt for Arkeologi, Bevaring og Historie, Universitetet i Oslo
Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Technology
Paper 504-bChronology, Chronological Memory, and the Setting of Charlemagne's Canal Project
(Language: English)
Lukas Werther, Institut für Orientalistik, Indogermanistik und Ur- und Frühgeschichtliche Archäologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Technology
Paper 504-cCharlemagne's 792/793 Canal Project: Craft, Nature, and Memory
(Language: English)
Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London
Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Technology
Abstract

Archaeologists and historians have been working together on Charlemagne's canal project of 792/793. This session presents new findings and new interpretations on an interdisciplinary basis. Broader questions of communications are also tackled.