IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 318: Living in the Carolingian World, II: Peasants and the Limits of Social Organisation
Monday 5 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
Organisers: | Noah Blan, Department of History, University of Michigan Valerie Garver, Department of History, Northern Illinois University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Thomas Kohl, Sonderforschungsbereich 923 'Bedrohte Ordnungen', Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
Paper 318-a | Conserve and Cultivate: Peasants and a Carolingian Moral Ecology (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Daily Life, Mentalities, Political Thought |
Paper 318-b | Life in a Royal Landscape: Evidence from 9th-Century Carolingian Royal Charters (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Charters and Diplomatics, Daily Life, Geography and Settlement Studies |
Paper 318-c | Finding the Fishermen: Hagiography and Medieval Traditional Ecological Knowledge (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hagiography |
Abstract | The Carolingian World 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 felt the effects of elite efforts to exert power is less clear. Ideal visions of rural social organisation and the place of the least powerful in society did not always match up to traces of lived experience. These papers will explore how the non-elite experienced the Carolingian world as agrarian subjects, economic drivers, and dependents on estates. |