IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1512: Living in the Carolingian World, I: Intersections between Popular and Elite
Thursday 9 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Florence Bourgne, Centre d'Études Médiévales Anglaises, Université Paris IV - Sorbonne Valerie Garver, Department of History, Northern Illinois University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Kelly Gibson, Department of History, University of Dallas, Texas |
| Paper 1512-a | Affecting Weather and Climate in the Carolingian World (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Political Thought, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1512-b | Using Coinage in the Carolingian World (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Daily Life, Economics - General, Numismatics |
| Paper 1512-c | The Fate of Latin in the Carolingian Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin, Literacy and Orality |
| Abstract | The Carolingian World did not map onto any specific borders or boundaries so much as it reflected the reach and ambitions of its rulers and thinkers who imagined their unique place in history and the world. The extent to which the majority of people living under Carolingian rule and influence experienced a Carolingian world is less clear. These papers will explore the degree to which the elite and the non-elite shared certain practices and ideas that concerned them all - weather, use of coins, and language - in order to answer the question of what it meant to live in the Carolingian World. |