IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1314: Carolingian Culture in Times of Crisis: The Transformation of Septimania and Catalonia in the Long 10th Century and Beyond, 900-1200
Wednesday 3 July 2024, 16:30-18:00
| Sponsor: | Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
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| Organiser: | Matthias M. Tischler, Institut d'Estudis Medievals, Institución Catalana de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Moderator/Chair: | Patrick S. Marschner, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 1314-a | 'Carolingian Reform' through Manuscripts in the Southwestern Periphery of Charlemagne's Empire: Challenges, Results, and Perspectives of an Open-End Project (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography and Religious Life |
| Paper 1314-b | Carolingian Homiliaries on the Peripheries: Between Tradition and Innovation (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval and Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1314-c | Jews, Pagans, and Heretics in the Frontier Society of Early Medieval Catalonia: The Carolingian Homiliary of Luculentius and Its Historical Background (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography and Religious Life |
| Abstract | The present session presents key results of the FWF project 'Carolingian Culture in Septimania and Catalonia' (CCSC), co-directed by Matthias M. Tischler (Barcelona) and Walter Pohl (Vienna) from 2020 to 2024. CCSC focused on manuscripts with Carolingian text culture from the ninth century onwards that can be traced from Septimania and Catalonia, many of which could be identified for the first time, examined more closely, and placed in the larger panorama of handwriting, book culture, and history of this area (http://postcarolingianworld.ac.at/resources-2/). For this main goal, the project developed the manuscript and text database CarCat which makes a substantial contribution to the significant role of Carolingian text and manuscript culture in south-western Europe and to the reconstruction of an area of European culture hitherto thought to have been largely lost. Three selected papers will give a comprehensive overview of the project's scientific challenges and larger historical perspectives (Paper a), present the function of key texts of Carolingian text and manuscript culture in a border society (Paper b), and finally discuss how this text culture contributed to the construction of a new Latin Christian identity in this Euro-Mediterranean world zone (Paper c). |