IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1714: Shifting Climates: Ireland, Britain, and the Continent, 600-900
Thursday 8 July 2021, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Michel Summer, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Immo Warntjes, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Paper 1714-a | The Letter Collection of Columbanus (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1714-b | Willibrord as a Political Actor in Merovingian Francia, 690-739 (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1714-c | 'The Wandering Scholar': An Examination of Ethnic Terminology in the Changing Climate of Carolingian Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | During the early Middle Ages, the establishment and growth of ecclesiastical institutions on the Continent was promoted by travelling clerics from the Insular world, who weaved a complex network of cultural relations between older and newer zones of 'Christianisation'. Individuals such as Columbanus, Willibrord, or Alcuin, however, were not part of uniform movements. The influence they each exerted on the religious, cultural, and political changes of their time was accompanied by interaction and integration as well as conflicts and competition. The session reconsiders the cross-border activity of Insular ecclesiastical actors between the 6th and 9th centuries and takes a new look at the different 'climates' within which their activity took place on the Continent. |