IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 812: At the Borders of Genres, IV: Articulating Perceptions of the Past in the Carolingian and Post-Carolingian World in Northern France and Germany
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen / Princeton University / Instituto de Estudios Medievals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
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Organiser: | Helmut Reimitz, Department of History, Princeton University |
Moderator/Chair: | Matthias Martin Tischler, Institut d'Estudis Medievals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Paper 812-a | Divergent Legacies: The Making and Remaking of Carolingian History Books from the 9th to the 12th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 812-b | It's Better to Burn Out Than to Fade Away?: Regino of Prüm on Historical Change (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 812-c | From Nuptial Song to History: Radbert's 9th-Century Epitaphs for Adalhard and Wala of Corbie, Two Centuries Later (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | In this session we will continue to look at the changes in regard to the writing and the forms of historical works in Northern France and Germany. Helmut Reimitz will study these changes in the transmission and transformation of Carolingian history books. Felix Schaefer will continue with Regino of Prüm’s chronicle and discuss how Regino reflects upon historical change itself and how the chronicle’s own historiographical logic forms the crossroads between late and post-Carolingian times. Mayke de Jong will explore the Life of Paschasius Radbertus’ composed in Corbie sometime after 1073 and compare it with its source, the Vita Adalhardi II. What had to go, what could stay, and why? Exploring these questions means confronting the very different priorities of the authors involved, with two centuries in between. |