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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 207: Thirty Years of Early Medieval Europe: Anniversary Session, I

Monday 4 July 2022, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Early Medieval Europe
Organiser:Francesca Tinti, Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y de América, Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Moderator/Chair:Francesca Tinti, Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y de América, Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Paper 207-aA 'Momentous Decision'?: Reassessing Willibrord's Consecration as Archbishop of the Frisians in 695
(Language: English)
Michel Summer, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin
Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life
Paper 207-bPentecost and the Language of Thought in Early Irish and Early English Traditions
(Language: English)
Viktoriia Krivoshchekova, Department of Early Irish Maynooth University
Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Old English, Mentalities
Abstract

This is the first of two sessions celebrating the 30th anniversary of the journal Early Medieval Europe through the sponsorship of papers delivered by graduate students and ECRs. Paper -a explores the role of consiliarii in 7th-century papal administration to provide new evidence on the papacy as a bridge between East and West. Paper -b discusses Willibrord's consecration in Rome in 695 and the significance of his adoption of the title 'archbishop' to cast new light on the strategies available to insular clerics in Francia. Paper -c analyses early medieval insular interpretations of Pentecost and approaches to the nature of the apostles' speech.