IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 309: Time, History, and Reform around the Millennium: Organising the Past in a Post-Carolingian World
Monday 6 July 2026, 16:30-18:00
| Organisers: | Christoph Haack, Seminar für mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Graeme Ward, Seminar für mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Charles West, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh |
| Paper 309-a | Reforming History: Ademar of Chabannes and the Carolingian Past (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Mentalities, Monasticism |
| Paper 309-b | 'What should we do, we people of the last age...': Ælfric of Eynsham, Biblical Time, and Its Lessons for the Present (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 309-c | Recording History, Revealing God: Rodulf Glaber and the Synchronisation of Historical Time (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Recent work on the decades around the year 1000 has emphasized the political and intellectual creativity of the period and has traced transregional developments through comparative study. This session seeks to contribute to this new reading by uncovering distinctive ways of thinking about time and history around the first millennium. The papers examine three different monastic voices, over three regions – Aquitaine, southern England, and Burgundy –, exploring how contemporary debates about the right forms of religious, Christian order (“reform”) shaped perceptions of past, present and future. To create their new texts, the authors in question not only used patristic but also Carolingian authorities, forming new intellectual traditions in the process. The session’s papers thus also will investigate comparative elements of intellectual cohesion in a post-Carolingian world. |