IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 533: Crisis, Challenge, and Competition: Societal Performance in Early Medieval Italy, I
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 09:00-10:30
| Sponsor: | Italy in Late Antiquity & the Early Middle Ages |
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| Organiser: | Christopher Heath, School of Humanities & Heritage, University of Lincoln |
| Moderator/Chair: | Walter Pohl, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
| Paper 533-a | Paul the Deacon and the Matter of Honour in the Historia Langobardorum (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities and Social History |
| Paper 533-b | The Bread of Tribulation: A Grievous Strife of Kings, Dukes, and Patriarchs (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval and Social History |
| Paper 533-c | Gangs of Ravenna: A New Look at Agnellus' Liber Pontificlis Ecclesaie Ravennatis, 126-130 (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Celtic, Local History and Social History |
| Abstract | These sessions on the topic of ‘Crisis, Challenge and Competition’ maintaina particular focus on aspects of environmental, political, social, religious and cultural crisis in Italy from c.500 to c.1100. Papers here are based on material rarely analysed, or novel interpretations or even innovative methods which interrogate specific events, or ‘micro-crises’ and permit broader conclusions or themes that may permit a wider comparative discussion of how equilibrium might be restored (or not). How did organic early medieval societies and elites cope with crisis? How might commentators respond to unforeseen cataclysms? What can the actions of social agents tell us about responses and impulses to crisis? Given this theme the contributions here develop insight beyond the immediate issues of political/social/cultural crisis and thus consider how given protagonists and social agents worked to restore or fail to restore balance into the political, religious or cultural landscapes within which they operated |