Vorträge und Tagungen
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Wir möchten Sie auf folgende Tagungen, Workshops und Vorträge aufmerksam machen an denen Mitglieder des Aufgabenbereiches „Geschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters“ des Friedrich-Meinecke-Instituts beteiligt sind oder waren.
Early Medieval Militarisation. An Archaeological Perspective
Internationale Tagung, Freiburg, 28. bis 29. November 2018 (organisiert in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Deutschen Archäologischen Institut sowie dem Institut für Archäologie des Mittelalters der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg).
Tagungsort: Großer Saal, Haus zur lieben Hand, Löwenstraße 16, 79098 Freiburg im Breisgau.
Den Poster sowie Flyer finden Sie hier.
28. November
9:00-09:30 Laury Sarti (Freiburg), Welcome and Introduction.
09:30-13:00 Sektion I: Weapon Burials (Moderation: Sebastian Brather)
Benjamin Hamm (Freiburg): Change of habit equals change of values? Burials of military men between 300 and 500 A.D.
Hubert Fehr (Tierhaupten), Mass militarization in the 6th and 7th centuries?
James Harland (Northumbria), Militarisation in unexpected places? Rethinking narratives about ethnicity and the post-Roman transition at the Early Anglo-Saxon Cremation Cemetery of Spong Hill, Norfolk
Susanne Brather-Walter (Freiburg): Militarisation in the female burial evidence.
14:30-16:00 Sektion II: Military Settlements (Moderation: Philipp von Rummel, Berlin)
Dawn Hadley (York), Warriors in Context: the Viking 'Great Army' and its followers.
Stephen Harrison (Glasgow) Viking Camps in Ireland – New Evidence and New Interpretations
16:30-18:00 Sektion III: Weapons and Warriors (Moderation: Stefan Esders, Berlin)
Ellora Bennett (Berlin), Symbolising militarisation. Some considerations on the importance of weapons in early Anglo-Saxon burials
Guido Berndt (Berlin): Weapons as signifiers of militarisation in Lombard Italy. Some historiographical and archaeological perspectives.
29. November
9:00-10:30 Sektion IV: Military Fortifications (Moderation: Ryan Lavelle, Winchester)
Luc Bourgeois (Caen): Recent research on fortifications in France 850-1000: new themes and new questions.
Alexandru Madgearu (Bucharest), The Byzantine Danubian borderland in the 10th-12th centuries
11:00-13:00 Sektion V: Comparing Early medieval Militarisation (Moderation: Laury Sarti)
Svante Fischer (Uppsala), Early medieval militarisation in Scandinavia and the outskirts of Rome. A comparative perspective.
Final discussion
Anmeldung und Kontakt: Dr. Laury Sarti (laury.sarti@geschichte.uni-freiburg.de).
Tagung: "Reflections of a Militarised World? Perceptions and conceptions of war and the military in the early Middle Ages (ca. 500-1000)"
Internationale Tagung, Berlin, 19. bis 21. September 2017.
Den Tagungsbericht finden Sie hier.
19. September
13:30-13:45
Stefan Esders (Berlin), Introduction. The ‘Post-Roman Militarization Index’ and the Early Medieval Kingdoms.
13:45-15:15 Sektion I: Assessing Militarisation (Moderation: Miriam Czock, Duisburg-Essen)
Edward James (London), Militarisation. Twenty Years On.
Laury Sarti (Freiburg), Perceptions and Conceptions of War and the Military as Reflections of a Militarised World.
15:15-15:45 Kaffeepause
15:45-17:15 Sektion II: War and Christian Thought (Moderation: Miriam Czock)
Uta Heil (Wien), Swords in Christian Hands. Reflections on Gregory the Great.
Hans-Werner Goetz (Hamburg), Holy Wars? Religious Wars? The Perception of Religious Motives of Warfare against non-Christian Enemies in Ninth-Century Chronicles.
17:15-17:30 Kaffeepause
17:30-18:15 Yannis Stouraitis (Wien), Just war in Leo VI’s Tactica as a Hallmark of Imperial Romanness in early tenth-century Byzantium.
20th September
9:00-10:30 Sektion III: Assessments of the Warrior (Moderation: Ryan Lavelle, Winchester)
Ellora Bennett (Berlin), Construction of the Enemy in Pre-Viking England.
Thomas Wittkamp (Freiburg), Weapons and Warriors in the Gesta Karoli of Notker the Stammerer – Evidence of a Militarised World?
10:30-11:00 Kaffeepause
11:00-12:30 Sektion IV: Perceptions of Military Combat (Moderation: Stefan Esders)
Stefanie Dick (Bonn), Krieg und Gewalt in der Darstellung des Paulus Diaconus
Guido M. Berndt (Berlin), Lombard Warfare. Some Observations from the Perspective of Non-Lombard Sources.
12:30-14:00 Mittagessen
14:00-17:30 Thomas Scharff (Braunschweig), Defining battle in the Carolingian Age. Perceptions, Attributions and Appraisals.
Michel Summer (Freiburg), Images of war? A Reconsideration of the Figural Scenes on Early Medieval Helmets and other Items from north-western Europe
15:30-16:00 Kaffeepause
16:00-17:30 Sektion V: Representations of Warfare (Moderation: Ryan Lavelle, Winchester)
Magali Coumert (Brest), Violence, Trickeries and Fights in Origin Accounts of the early Middle Ages.
Stefano Gasparri (Venedig), “Gens Germana gente ferocior”. Lombards and Warfare between Representation and Reality.
21st September
8:30-10:00 Sektion VI: Why battles were fought (Moderation: Laury Sarti)
Pablo Poveda Arias (Salamanca), The Role of War in the Construction of Visigothic Kingdom in Hispania (507–589). Motivations, Perceptions and Factors of Military Cohesion.
Etienne Renard (Namur), Motives and Justification for Frankish Military Campaigns.
10:00-10:30 Kaffeepause
10:30-12:00 Sektion VII: Assessments of Fighting (Moderation: Laury Sarti)
Simon Coupland (Cambridge), Warrior or Wimp? Charles the Bald as Military Commander.
Philip Rance (Berlin), “Displaying Many Wounds”. The Portrayal and Symbolism of Combat Injuries in early Medieval Warfare (4th-7th centuries).
12:00-12:15 Kaffeepause
12:15-13:00 Ryan Lavelle (Winchester) und Philipp von Rummel (Berlin), Summary and Final Remarks.
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Session series: The Other Look at Early Medieval Societies – the Phenomenon of Militarisation (International Medieval Congress 2017 )
Date: 6th. July 2017
Place: Leeds, UK.
Session I: Comparative approaches to early medieval militarisation
Moderation: Stuart Airlie (Glasgow)
1. Ralph Mathisen (Urbana-Champaign), “Not ‘the Other’: Barbarians and the End of the Western Roman Empire”
2. Edward James (London), “On the Militarisation of post-Roman Aquitaine”
3. Kai Grundmann (Berlin), “Gothic Italy – A (De)Militarized Society? The Dark Side of Ethnic Identity”
Session II: Early medieval military organisation
Moderation: Roland Steinacher (Berlin)
1. Ellora Bennett (Berlin), “‘Weapon-bearers’ and Warriors in Early Anglo-Saxon England”
2. Christoph Haack (Tübingen), “Carolingian Levies. Military Service and Local Communities. Peasant milita or Aristocratic Cavalry Force?”
3. Ryan Lavelle (Winchester), “The Evidence for Alfredian Military Reforms in their Ninth-Century Context: What can we Know?"
Session III: Using early medieval weapons
Moderation: Christopher Heath (Manchester)
1. Guido M. Berndt (Berlin), “Martiality and Beyond”
2. Irene Barbiera (Padua), “The Social Meaning of Weapon Burials in Early Medieval Italy”
3. Attila P. Kiss (Szeged), “The Military Force and Weapons of the Gepids in Light of the Written and Archaeological Sources”
4. Daniel Föller (Frankfurt), “Fight for your right! Using Weapons as Legal Remedies in Carolingian Europe”
The Politics of Interpretation: the Bible and the Formation of Legal Authority in the Early Middle Ages
Date: 11– 13 May 2017
Place: Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße 23-25, Room 2.2059, Freie Universität Berlin.
Thursday, May 11
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14.00 |
Arrival and Welcome |
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14.30 –15.00 |
Stefan Esders & Gerda Heydemann (Freie Universität Berlin) Introduction |
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15.00-16.30 |
SESSION I: THE POLITICS OF INTERPRETATION: BIBLICAL NORMS AND THEIR COMMUNICATION (Chair: Gerda Heydemann) |
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Maximilian Diesenberger (ÖAW, Vienna): Preaching the Law: Sermons, the Bible and Legal Discourse in the Ninth Century |
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Abigail Firey (University of Kentucky): Stranger in a Strange Land: Carolingian Exegetes and Jurists Consider Outsiders, Exile, and Identity |
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17.00-18.30 |
SESSION II: INSULAR MODELS AND INFLUENCES (Chair: Rosamond Mc Kitterick, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge) |
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Roy Flechner (University College Dublin): Interpretation Rather Than Legislation: Biblical Exegesis in Early Irish Church Law |
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Sven Meeder (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen): Negotiating the Canonical Rules of the Bible in Irish Canon Law |
Friday, May 12
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Session III: CANON LAW AND PENITENTIAL PRACTICE (Chair: Charles West, University of Sheffield) |
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Cornelia Scherer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): “Lex est emula divinitatis”: Zum Gebrauch biblischer Texte in Rechtssammlungen des Westgotenreichs |
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Clara Harder (Universität zu Köln): Tradition und Innovation. Die Bedeutung der Bibel in den pseudoisidorischen Fälschungen |
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Rob Meens (Universiteit Utrecht): The Bible as a Norm in Carolingian Penitential |
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14.00-15.30 |
SESSION IV: BIBLICAL LANGUAGE AND ‘SECULAR’ LAW (Chair: Lukas Bothe (Freie Universität Berlin) |
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Miriam Czock (Universität Duisburg-Essen): Conceptions of justice in the Carolingian Age |
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Karl Ubl (Universität zu Köln): Bibel und Recht. Das Florilegium in Paris, BN, lat. 10754 |
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Session V: BIBLICAL EXEGESIS AND LEGAL THOUGHT (Chair: Matthias M. Tischler (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) |
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Conor O'Brien (Churchill College, Cambridge): “Subiecti estote omni humanae creaturae”: Insular Commentary on 1 Peter 2.13-14 and its Influence on Carolingian Exegesis |
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Gerda Heydemann (Freie Universität Berlin): The Gospel of Matthew in Carolingian Law and Exegesis |
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Mayke de Jong (Universiteit Utrecht): “That in the Mouth of Two or Three Witnesses Every Word May Stand”(Mt 18-16) On Paschasius Radbertus, testes and Truth |
Saturday, May 13
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SESSION VI: BISHOPS AS LEGAL MINDS (Chair: Mayke de Jong) |
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Caroline Chevalier-Royet (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3): Bibel und Patristik im Dienste der politischen Argumentation bei Agobard von Lyon |
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Charles West (University of Sheffield): “Just as the Law of Moses is the Law of the Jews”: Hincmar of Rheims & the Normative Role of the Bible in Late Carolingian France |
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11.00-12.30 |
SESSION VII: PERSPECTIVES |
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Stefan Jurasinski (The College at Brockport, State University of New York): Alfred, the Bible, and the Authority of Written Law: Reassessing the Carolingian Inheritance |
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Rosamond McKitterick (Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge): Conclusive Remarks |
You may download the entire program here.
Making sense of the oath in late antiquity and the earlier middle ages. Religious act, social Bond, holy sacrament
Datum: 15. bis 17. Dezember 2016
Ort: Fabeckstr. 23-25, Räume 2.2058 und 2.2059
Donnerstag, 15. Dezember
14:00 – 14:30
Stefan Esders (Freie Universität Berlin), Welcome and Introduction
Sektion 1 – The Christian Oath in Roman Society (14:30 – 18:00)
Bernd Kollmann (Universität Siegen), Jesus’ Teaching on Oaths in its Ancient Context
Moshe Blidstein (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Religious Authority and the Cancellation of Oaths and Vows in the Roman Empire
Kevin Uhalde (Ohio University), The Shape of Early Christian Fidelity: Tertullian on Swearing and Repentance
Nicholas Wheeler (University of Toronto), Two Cases of Perjury: The Fourth Century Origins of the Canonical Norm against Perjury in the Latin Church
Freitag, 16. Dezember
Sektion 2 – Obligations, Promises, Vows and Oaths: Redefining Social Relations in an Age of Transition (9:00 – 12:30)
Susanna Elm (University of California at Berkeley), Condicio — Religious Bonds and Social Acts in Augustine
Claudia Rapp (Universität Wien), Promise — Prayer — Contract — Oath: Religious Frameworks and Legal Norms for Social Interactions in Early Byzantium
Andrew Marsham (University of Edinburgh), Oath and Covenant in the Qur’an
Jamie Wood (University of Lincoln), Oath-Taking in Early Medieval Iberia: Contextualising ‘Pactual’ Monasticism
Sektion 3 – Fidelity, Oath-Taking and Narrative Justice: The Carolingian Empire and After (14:00 – 18:30)
Jennifer R. Davis (The Catholic University of America / The American Academy in Berlin), Re-imagining the Oath during the Reign of Charlemagne
Mayke de Jong (Universiteit Utrecht), “Fides” after the Battle of Fontenoy (25 June 841): Nithard and Paschasius Radbertus
Heiko Behrmann (Freie Universität Berlin), Oath-Taking and Perjury in the Annals of St. Bertin: Tracing the Political Thought of Hincmar of Rheims
Ian Ward (Princeton University), The End of the Carolingian Oath of Loyalty in the Tenth Century
Theo Riches (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Differentiating Sacred and Profane in the Eleventh-Century Oath: A Bishop’s Job, But Does Anyone Have to Do it?
Samstag, 17. Dezember
Sektion 4 – Framing the Oath in Early Medieval Theology, Exegesis and Canon Law (09:00 – 13:00)
Owen Phelan (Mount St. Mary’s University), Oaths and Bishops in the Ninth Century
Gerda Heydeman (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Freie Universität Berlin), “Ego autem dico vobis non iurare omnino”: The Prohibition to Swear (Matthew 5:33–37) in Carolingian Exegesis
Stefan Esders (Freie Universität Berlin), Dissolving the Oath (7th–11th centuries)
Kate Cooper (University of Manchester) / Conrad Leyser (Worcester College / University of Oxford), Conclusive Remarks
Final Discussion
Mehr Informationen sowie das komplette Programm finden Sie auch hier, das Poster hier.
Workshop: "Military Organisation and Society in the post-Roman World"
Datum: 15. bis 16. August 2016.
Ort: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (Koserstrasse 20, 14195 Berlin), Raum A 185.
Montag, 15. August
Laury Sarti und Stefan Esders, Introduction.
Philip Rance, Soldier and Civilian in the Byzantine Empire c.600–c.900. A Militarised Society?
Roland Steinacher, Pannonia as the Empire's Drill-Ground.
Matthias Hardt, Avars and Slavs – A military Relation?
Dienstag 16. August
Kai Grundmann, ‘Clipeus and Gladius of the Roman People’? Administration and Operations of the Ostrogothic Army in Italy.
Guido M. Berndt, The Role of the Military in Lombard Italy. Some Preliminary Considerations.
Leif I. R. Petersen, The Imperial Foundations of Frankish and Visigothic Military Organization: Some Methodological Considerations.
Ellora Bennett, The Anglo-Saxon Military before Alfred. An Overview.
Ryan Lavelle, The Development of Military Reforms under Alfred the Great of Wessex (871–899). A Review of Current Scholarship.
Philipp von Rummel und Lukas Bothe: Summary and Conclusions
Final Discussion
Den Flyer zum Workshop finden Sie hier.
Neue Forschungen zu hagiographischen Fragen
Datum: 14. bis 16. April 2016
Ort: Tagungszentrum Hohenheim
Samstag, 16. April 2016
Pia Bockius (Berlin): Von heiligen Orten und heiligem Willen. Reliquien und die Entstehung einer Landschaft des Heiligen bei Gregor von Tours
Das komplette Tagungsprogramm finden Sie hier
Exegesis and Politics around the Carolingian Court: Modes of Interpretation and Modes of Communication
Datum: 22. bis 23. Januar 2016
Ort: Koserstraße 20, Raum A163, Berlin
Freitag, 22. Januar 2016
Stefan Esders und Gerda Heydemann: Welcome & Introduction
Sektion I: Exegetical knowledge and political poetry: Walahfrid Strabo
Richard Corradini (Wien): Walahfrids Alcuin – Aspekte zu Rezeption und Reorganisation der Exegese im Rahmen des karolingischen Wissensdiskurses
Jasmin Damerius (Berlin), Fourfold exegesis, allegoresis and typologies in poetical texts of the 9th century: Walahfrid Strabo’s De Imagine Tetrici
Kathrin Henschel (Berlin), Die Visio Wettini des Walahfrid Strabo und das Alte Testament
Sektion II: Exegesis and the construction of political community
Graeme Ward (Wien), Florus vs Amalarius: liturgical exegesis, political polemic, and the limits of typology
Sumi Shimahara (Paris), The meanings of political concepts in Carolingian exegesis (sacramentum, servitium, obsequium, officium, ministerium)
Sektion III: Exegesis, Politics, Law: Paschasius Radbertus
Mayke de Jong (Berlin/Utrecht), Exegesis and fides in Paschasius Radbertus’ Epitaphium Arsenii
Gerda Heydemann (Berlin/Wien): Exegesis and law in Paschasius Radbertus’ Commentary on Matthew
Samstag, 23. Januar 2016
Sektion IV: Exegesis, Fides, Sacramentum
Heiko Behrmann (Berlin): Hincmar of Reims and the use of the Bible in his so-called periurium-dossier
Round Table Discussion(Moderator: Stefan Esders): Oath-taking between prohibition and sacrament: Paschasius Radbertus on the prohibition to swear (Mt 5,33-37)
Concluding Remarks
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Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages Nr 19: A Gathering of Senior Members from the Years 1997-2014
Datum: 5. bis 7. November 2015
Ort: FU Berlin, TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstrasse 18, 5-7
Donnerstag, 5. November
Sektion 1: Some introductions
Mayke de Jong (Universiteit Utrecht/FU Berlin), Welcome everybody! Why T&I-Plus, and above all, How?
Stefan Esders (FU Berlin), Where are we? The Topoi House, Dahlem and its (recent) history and a Short introduction to Geschichte der Spätantike und des Frühen Mittelalters, Friedrich Meinecke-Institut für Geschichte and its research(ers).
Sektion 2: Into the tenth century: post-Carolingian perspectives
Chair: Charles West (Sheffield University)
Stefan Esders (FU Berlin)
Max Diesenberger (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien)
Richard Corradini (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien)
Discussants: Sylvie Joye (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes) and Tim Barnwell (University of Leeds)
Freitag, 6, November
Sektion 3: Religion and Politics I
Chair: Rob Meens (Universiteit Utrecht)
Ann Christys (Independent scholar/University of Leeds), Entrusting property to Islam
Carine van Rhijn (Universiteit Utrecht), Between superstition and pastoral care: prognostic texts in a ninth-century clerical handbooks
Gerda Heydemann (FU Berlin), Law and justice in Carolingian Commentaries on Matthew
Graeme Ward (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna), A brief comment on ‘Heilsgeschichte’
Sektion 4: Religion and Politics II
Chair: Marianne Pollheimer (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge), The Council of Rome 769 and the Liber pontificalis
Graeme Ward (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften), Amalarius of Metz’ De ordine Antiphonarii and its connections with liturgical reform
Charles West (University of Sheffield), The Aachen Council of 862 and the organisation and record of church council reports
Giorgia Vocino (University of Cambridge), John the Deacon’s Vita Gregorii and the hagiographical approach to conciliar activity and papal authority
Sven Meeder (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Conciliar records in early medieval canon law collections
Sektion 5: Religion and politics, session III (people and ideas)
Chair: Carine van Rhijn (Universiteit Utrecht)
Rutger Kramer, Clemens Gantner (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien), Building an Idea of Rome in the Carolingian Empire
Claire Tignolet (Université Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne), Texts and Individuals in Carolingian Orléans
Warren Pezé (Universität Tübingen), The Master is wrong: Rewriting Augustine and Isidore, 6th-9th century
Sektion 6: Methodologies and approaches
Chair: Thomas Lienhard (Université Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Philip A. Shaw (University of Sheffield), Personal names and heroic narrative in Germanic-speaking diasporas: Beowulf and the Continent
Laury Sarti (FU Berlin), Words in context as a means to study contemporary perceptions and societal changes
Erik Goosmann (Utrecht University), A king on well-fare? The material dimension of the dynastic transition (751)
Samstag, 7. November
Sektion 7: Projects, and more projects: starting, running and ending.
Chair: Ian Wood (University of Leeds)
Janneke Raaijmakers (Utrecht University), Debating relics, c. 350-c.1150 – a project running
Irene van Renswoude (Huygens ING, The Hague), The art of reasoning – a project almost funded
Clemens Gantner (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien), Louis II of Italy and more: Imperial Carolingian identity in ninth-century Italy – a brief introduction to a new project.
Stefan Esders, New evidence for the reign of Louis II of Italy
Sektion 8: Texts and identities, some brief and concluding reflections on past, present and future
Chair: Walter Pohl
Walter Pohl (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien)
Rosamond McKitterick (University of Cambridge)
Ian Wood (University of Leeds)
Régine Le Jan (Université Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Mayke de Jong (Universiteit Utrecht)
Closing remarks
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East and West in the Early Middle Ages: The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective. GIF Workshop on “Culture and Religion”
Datum: 29. bis 30. Oktober 2015.
Ort: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Berlin
Donnerstag, 29. Oktober
9:00-12:00
Stefan Esders and Yitzhak Hen: Introduction.
Stefan Esders: Mediterranean politics and the Jews, AD 608–615.
Pia Bockius: Eastern religious influences in the works of Gregory of Tours. A survey.
14:00-19:30
Omer Glickman: Romans and Barbarians in the Chronicles of Cassiodorus and Marcellinus Comes.
Yitzhak Hen: History, Geography, and the notion of "Mare nostrum" in the early medieval West.
Round Table Discussion: The resurrection debate in East and West.
Preparation for the Münzkabinett and Introduction to Coinage.
Concluding remarks and discussion.
Freitag, 30. Oktober
10:00-15:00
Influence and Affluence – Eastern and Western coinage.
Final discussion.
Les représentations du livre aux époques carolingienne et ottonienne
Datum: 15. bis 17. Oktober 2015.
Ort: Institut national d'histoire de l'art und Sorbonne, Paris.
Sektion: Livre, loi et autorité
Stefan Esders (Berlin), Livre et loi
Anne-Orange Poilpré (Paris), Dans et avec le livre : Jérôme, David et les souverains carolingiens
François Bougard (Paris), Livre et autorité
Helmut Reimitz (Princeton), History books and the History of the Book in the Carolingian World
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Making Ends Meet. Cross-Cultural Perspectives on the End of Times in Medieval Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism
Datum: 24. bis 25. September 2015.
Ort: Institut für Mittelalterforschung der ÖAW, Wien.
Sektion: Death & Resurrection & Panel discussion
Jane Baun (Oxford), Sinners before the Throne: The Medieval Byzantine Bureaucratic and Imperial Makeover of the Other World
Pia Bockius (Berlin), Scattered Bones and Saintly virtus: Resurrection of the Body and Veneration of Relics in Gregory of Tours
Roberto Tottoli (Neapel), Death and Eschatological Beliefs in the Lives of the Prophets According to Islam
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'Rechtsräume'. Historisch-archäologische Annäherungen
Datum: 17. bis 19. September 2015
Ort: Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Frankfurt-am-Main.
Sektion "Konstruierte Räume"
Jürgen Strothmann (Siegen): Das ‚unsichtbare‘ Römische Reich. Zum Fortbestehen eines Raumes über seine Todesanzeige hinaus.
Laury Sarti (Berlin): Orbis Romanus im frühen Mittelalter? Konkurrierende Konzeptionen in Byzanz und dem Frankenreich
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L’Austrasie. Pouvoirs, espaces et identités à la charnière de l’Antiquité et du Moyen Âge
Datum: 9. bis 12. September 2015
Ort: Saint-Dizier, Frankreich.
Sektion 2: L’impulsion de la royauté mérovingienne
Marie-Adelaide Nielen (Archives nationales), Sceller au temps des rois « chevelus ».
Magali Coumert (Brest), La rédaction des lois franques d’après les manuscrits.
Esders Stefan (Berlin), La législation de Childebert II.
Jean-François Boyer (Limoges), Fisc, vici et monnaies en Austrasie.
Fischer Svante (Uppsala), Remnants of Riches – Late Roman Solidi in The Merovingian Successor Kingdoms.
Laurent Schneider (CNRS, LA3M), Les expéditions de Théodebert en Septimanie.(sous réserve).
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International Medieval Congress
Datum: 6. bis 9. Juli 2015.
Ort: Leeds, Vereinigtes Königreich.
Session 126: Texts and Identities, I: Transformation and Consolidation - Episcopal Identity in Late Antiquity
Session 220: Collective and Individual Renewals in Secular Contexts
Session 310: The Peace of God Revisited
Session 1520: Transformation and Renewal in Post-Roman and Early Medieval Societies, IV: Early Medieval Governance
Session 1714: Sessions in Honour of Ian N. Wood, VII: The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages
Between Empires. Rupture, Transmission and Transformation. International Conference
Datum: 26. bis 28. Juni 2015.
Ort: Peking University, China.
27. Juni, 9:00-12:00: Panel 3
Vorsitz: Lu Yang 陆扬 (Peking University)
Ian Wood (University of Leeds): When Did the West Roman Empire End?
Stefan Esders (Freie Universität Berlin): The Western Kingdoms and Eastern Rome after 476. The Impact of Religion on Mediterranean Cohesion and Connectivity.
Xin Deyong 辛德勇 (Peking University): From Worshiping Heaven to Following Heaven: The Change of Spatial Conception about Towns and Cities from the Han to the Tang (从敬天到效天—西汉至隋唐之间都城布局空间观念的转变).
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Seminari Prin 2010-11. Conflitti sociali, strutture parentali e comunità locali nell’ Italia altomedievale (secoli VIII-XI). Unità di Trento
Datum: 8. Juni 2015
Ort: Università di Verona, Italien
Stefan Esders (Berlin) und Helmut Reimitz (Princeton): The Adoption of Romannes. Law, Conflict and Identity in the Merovingian Kingdoms)
Die Ankündigung finden Sie auch hier.
Late Rome, Byzantium and the Early medieval West. Symposium in the framework of the Princeton - Oxford - Vienna - Berlin - Mainz Graduate Exchange
Datum: 1. bis 2. Juni 2015
Ort: Wien, Österreich
André Fischer (Berlin): Christian religious disputes in the 5thand 6thCenturies. The Conferences of Carthage 411 and 484.
Pia Bockius (Berlin): The Partitioning of relics in Gregory of Tours.
Christian Barthel (Berlin): Fraying Around the Edges. The Military Reforms of Anastasius I. in Libya Superior.
Matthias Sandberg (Berlin): ... quod non solent reges? Establishing humilitas as a Virtue of the imperator christianus
Das komplette Programm finden Sie hier.
50th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Datum: 14. bis 17. Mai 2015
Ort: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA
Sektion 45: The State and Its Loyal Constituencies in Late Antiquity
Organisator und Vorsitz: Laurent J. Cases, Pennsylvania State University
Michael Kulikowski (Pennsylvania State University): Saying No to Government: Disintegrating and Reinstating States.
Stefan Esders (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität): Regnum, Civitas, and Pagus: Rearranging Spatial Structures in Merovingian Gaul.
Guy Halsall (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York): Political Communities? A Comparison of the Roman and Merovingian Polities.
Das komplette Programm finden Sie hier.
Identity, Ethnicity and Nationhood before Modernity: Old Debates and New Perspectives
Datum: 24.-26 April 2015.
Ort: Oxford.
Session 1.B Byzantines, Greeks, & Romans
Chair: Catherine Holmes (Oxford)
Laury Sarti (Berlin): The Western Perception of the Byzantines
Ioannis Stouraitis (Wien): Identities in the Byzantine Empire: A Case-Study for the Debate Over PreModern Nationhood and Ethnicity
Nicholas Matheou (Oxford): Imagining Romania: Land of the Medieval Romans’ Empire in the East
Nikolaos Chrissis (Athen): Identity Discourses in post-1204 Byzantium: ‘Ecumenical’, ‘Political’, or ‘National’?
Das komplette Tagungsprogramm finden Sie hier.
Kleine Welten: Ländliche Gesellschaften im Karolingerreich
Datum: 24. bis 27. März 2015
Ort: Insel Reichenau
Stefan Esders (Berlin): Amt und Bann. Weltliche Funktionsträger als Teil ländlicher Gesellschaften im Karolingerreich.
Das komplette Tagungsprogramm finden Sie hier.
16. Symposium des Mediävistenverbandes: "Gebrauch und Symbolik des Wassers in der mittelalterlichen Kultur”.
Datum: 22.-25. März 2015.
Ort: Bern, Schweiz.
Sitzung "Bound by Waters. The significance of rivers and seas for medieval world orders" (23/03, 14:00-15:30 h)
Chair: Klaus Oschema (Heidelberg)
Christoph Mauntel (Heidelberg): On continents and oceans. Water as a means of ordering the world in Latin medieval Europe.
Yossef Rapoport (London): Seas, Islands, Bays, Lakes and Rivers. The Maritime World Order of the Fatimid Book of Curiosities.
Laury Sarti (Berlin):Totius terrae circulum Oceani limbo circumseptum. The Italian Perspective of the Sea in the Early Middle Ages.
Das komplette Tagungsprogramm finden Sie hier.
Die neuentdeckten Glossen der karolingischen Rechtshandschrift Paris, BN lat. 4416, das Römerwergeld im Frankenreich und das römische Recht im frühen Mittelalter
Datum: 23.-24. März 2015.
Ort: Freiburg im Breisgau.
Montag, 23.3.2015, 14.00-18.30h
Lukas Bothe (Berlin): Das Römerwergeld in den fränkischen Leges und in der modernen Forschung.
Stefan Esders (Berlin) und Helmut Reimitz (Princeton): Der ‚Prolog zur Lex Theodosiana‘ in Paris, BN lat. 4416.
Das komplette Tagungsprogramm finden Sie hier.
Hamburger Doktorandenkolloquium 2015: Ab imperio uno ad regna gentium. Neue historische Forschungen zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter
Datum: 13.-14. März 2015
Ort: Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Universität Hamburg
Sektion „Ostrom und seine Nachbarn“ (Freitag, 13. März 2015)
14:30–15:00: Christian Barthel, Grenzorganisation und Grenzpolitik in der spätrömischen Kyrenaika unter Anastasius I. (491-518 n. Chr. ) und Justinian I. (527-565 n. Chr.)
16:00–16:30: Stephan Ridder, Die Grenzorganisation im östlichen Frankenreich und ihre spätantiken Grundlagen
Sektion „Kontakte und Kontinuitäten zwischen Rom und Germanenreichen“ (Samstag, 14. März 2015)
11:30–12:00: Lukas Bothe, Funktionalität und Dysfunktionalität frühmittelalterlicher Geldstrafen
13:00–13:30: Pia Bockius, Mapping divine power – Heilige in Ost und West bei Gregor von Tours
Das komplette Tagungsprogramm finden Sie hier.
Ringvorlesung zum 2000. Todesjahr des ersten römischen Kaisers Augustus: Modellkaiser – Kaisermodell
Datum: 13. Januar 2015, 18:00 - 20:00
Ort: Hörsaal B, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
Stefan Esders: Übereinstimmung von Name und Sache: Karl der Große als neuer Augustus
Für das gesamte Programm der Ringvorlesung, siehe hier.
Tagung zum Thema: East and West in the Early Middle Ages. The Merovingian Kingdoms in Mediterranean Perspective.
Minerva Gentner Symposium.
Datum: 17. bis 20. Dezember 2014.
Organisation: Stefan Esders (FU Berlin) und Yitzhak Hen (BGU Be’er Sheva).
Ort: Topoi Gebäude Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, Berlin.
Donnerstag, 18. Dezember
14:30‒15:45: Laury Sarti: Knowledge Exchange and Perception of the Eastern Empire in the late Merovingian West.
Samstag, 20. Dezember
11:00‒12:15: Stefan Esders: Unplugging the Merovingians from the Mediterranean – the case of Ebroin.
Mehr Informationen hier. Eine detaillierte Ansicht des Posters sowie das Tagungsprogramm finden Sie hier. Siehe auch den Eintrag in HSozKult.
Meinecke Forum
Datum:14. November 2014, um 12:15 Uhr.
Ort: A 121, Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin.
Stefan Esders: Frühmittelalterliche Staatlichkeit im Lichte der Governance-Forschung.
Tagung zum Thema: Wergild, compensation and penance. The monetary logic of early medieval conflict resolution
Datum: 29. bis 30. September 2014.
Organisation: DFG Collaborative Research Centre 700 - Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood.
Ort: Topoi Gebäude Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, Berlin.
Montag, 09. September
09:00: Welcome: Lukas Bothe (Berlin), Stefan Esders (Berlin), Han Nijdam (Leeuwarden).
Dienstag, 30. September
9:00–13:00: Wergild and social status.
Lukas Bothe (Berlin): Triplice weregildum: Social and functional status in the Lex Ripuaria (7th–9th centuries)
17:45– 19:15: Conclusions.
Stefan Esders (Berlin): Summary.
Das das komplette Tagungsprogramm finden Sie hier, eine ausführliche Beschreibung zum Thema finden Sie hier.
Siehe auch die Ankündigung in HSozuKult.
50. Deutscher Historikertag, "Gewinner und Verlierer"
Datum: 23.bis 26. September 2014.
Ort: Göttingen.
Session ZHG 006 (24.09, 15:15 – 18:00 Uhr): Aufstieg und Fall Frühmittelalterlicher Warlords.
Matthias Becher (Bonn): Einführung. Frühmittelalterliche Warlords.
Guido M. Berndt (Erlangen-Nürnberg) : Kampf, Beute, Ehre. Warlords Und Ihre Kriegergruppen Im Frühen Mittelalter.
Laury Sarti (Berlin): Duces, antrustiones und bellatores. Eine Militärelite im Nachrömerzeitlichen Gallien?
Matthias Hardt (Leipzig): Warlords bei den frühen Slawen.
Mehr Informationen hier.
Politik und Versammlung im Fruehmittelalter
Datum: 10.-12. September 2014.
Ort: Markt 39, 52062 Aachen.
Donnerstag, 11. September 2014
14.30h: Stefan Esders (Berlin): Iustitiam imperatoris annuntiare: Lokale Versammlungen und die Ansprüche des Herrschers im Karolingerreich.
Den Tagungsbericht finden Sie hier.
International Medieval Congress
Datum: 7. bis 10. Juli 2014.
Ort: Leeds, Vereinigtes Königreich.
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Session |
227 |
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Title |
Texts and Identities, II: The Historiography of Barbarian Identities |
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Date/Time |
Monday 7 July 2014: 14.15-15.45 |
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Sponsor |
Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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Organiser |
E. T. Dailey, School of History, University of Leeds |
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Gerda Heydemann, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien |
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Moderator/Chair |
Walter Pohl, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, Universität Wien |
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Paper 227-a |
In Need of Barbarians: Ammianus Marcellinus's Depiction of Foreigners |
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Paper 227-b |
The Saxons in the Latin Imaginary: Changing Perspectives in the Late Antique West |
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Paper 227-c |
The Trojan Narrative and the Making of the Regnum Francorum |
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Paper 227-d |
The Regnum Gothorum and the Others: Isidore's Historia (de regibus) Gothorum as a Biblical History? |
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Abstract |
The papers of this session take a fresh look at the social and political function of historiographical texts and their relevance for the construction of barbarian identities in the late and post-Roman West. Pia Bockius examines the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus, challenging the traditional view of Ammianus's stereotypical depiction of a binary opposition between Romans and Barbarians, arguing instead that he carefully modulated his stance towards Barbarians according to the criterion of the well-being of the Empire. James Harland discusses the image of the Saxons within the works of Sidonius Appolinaris and Gregory of Tours. He suggests that although we may detect some coherent patterns in the representation of the Saxons in late antique sources, this had less to do with the peoples represented than with the shifting geopolitical and religious mentalities of the authors and societies that imagined them. Kilvilcim Yavuz's paper confronts the famous story of the Trojan origins of the Franks with new questions. Examining textual and manuscript evidence, it will consider the place and significance of the Trojan origins in Frankish politics, the shifting meaning of Trojan descent between the Merovingian and the Carolingian periods, as well as the question of how the narrative itself was transformed through centuries of use. The final paper by Philipp Dörler will focus on the History of the Goths written by the Spanish bishop Isidore of Seville, contrasting the uses of the Roman and the Biblical past as a resource of identification for the Visigothic kingdom. |
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Session |
214 |
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Title |
Empire, Power, and Identity in Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, and Islamic North Africa, II |
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Date/Time |
Monday 7 July 2014: 14.15-15.45 |
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Organiser |
Philipp von Rummel, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut |
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Moderator/Chair |
Ralph Mathisen, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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Paper 214-a |
Thrasamund and Fulgentius |
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Paper 214-b |
Church Building and Confronting the Past in Byzantine Carthage |
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Paper 214-c |
At Empire's Edge: Ruling Libya in the Late 5th and Early 6th Century |
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Abstract |
The papers of the 4 'Empire, Power, and Identity in Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, and Islamic North Africa' sessions will deal with imperial (Roman, Byzantine, and Arab) rule and its traces in North Africa, Roman, and non-Roman identities as well as archaeological aspects of a long neglected part of the mediterranean. |
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Session |
527 |
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Title |
Texts and Identities, IV: Political Identities in the Carolingian Empire - Resources and Perceptions |
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Date/Time |
Tuesday 8 July 2014: 09.00-10.30 |
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Sponsor |
Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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Organiser |
E. T. Dailey, School of History, University of Leeds |
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Gerda Heydemann, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien |
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Moderator/Chair |
Mayke de Jong, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
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Paper 527-a |
Romanness before and after Empire |
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Paper 527-b |
Reading Orosius in the Carolingian Empire |
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Paper 527-c |
Instructions, Institutions, and Interpretation: Junillus Africanus in the Carolingian Period |
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Abstract |
Romanness and Christianity were the two hallmarks on which the Carolingian idea of Empire was built. This session considers the uses of cultural resources and political traditions - both Roman and Christian - in the construction of imperial identity in the Carolingian period. Laury Sarti will analyse shifting Carolingian ideas of Romanness before and after the year 800, when Charlemagne was crowned emperor, in order to shed new light on the various actors' political strategies and the ideological implications of calling the Western emperor 'Roman'. Graeme Ward's paper likewise addresses the Romanness of the Carolingian empire, by analysing the reception of one of the key texts of Late Antique imperial historiography, Orosius's Historiae adversus paganos. It explores the cultural contexts in which Orosius's history was read, in order to assess the roles this text played in shaping Carolingian perceptions of the past. Marianne Pollheimer's paper further emphasizes the significance of Late Antique notions of a Christian empire in the Carolingian world. Her examination the manuscript transmission of the Instituta regularia divinae legis reveals the considerable interest of the Carolingian intellectual elite in this exegetical treatise written by the imperial quaestor Junillus Africanus during the reign of Justinian, a text in which religious and secular notions of law and governance converged. The reception of the Instituta, she argues, contributed not only to Carolingian biblical studies, but also to reflections about the imperial office and lawgiving. |
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Session |
514 |
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Title |
Empire, Power, and Identity in Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, and Islamic North Africa, IV |
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Date/Time |
Tuesday 8 July 2014: 09.00-10.30 |
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Organiser |
Guido M. Berndt, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg |
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Moderator/Chair |
Stefan Esders, Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin |
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Respondent |
Anna Leone, Department of Archaeology, Durham University |
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David Mattingly, School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester |
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Paper 514-a |
The Relation of Central and Local Romanness in Post-Roman Africa: The Case Study Simitthus / Chimtou |
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Paper 514-b |
Empire and Identity in Umayyad and Abbasid North Africa |
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Abstract |
The papers of the 4 'Empire, Power, and Identity in Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, and Islamic North Africa' sessions will deal with imperial (Roman, Byzantine, and Arab) rule and its traces in North Africa, Roman, and non-Roman identities as well as archaeological aspects of a long neglected part of the mediterranean. |
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Session |
1109 |
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Title |
Shadows of Empire in the Post-Roman West |
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Date/Time |
Wednesday 9 July 2014: 11.15-12.45 |
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Sponsor |
Sonderforschungsbereich 700 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood', Freie Universität Berlin |
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Organiser |
Lukas Bothe, Sonderforschungsbereich 700 'Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood', Freie Universität Berlin |
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Moderator/Chair |
Alice Rio, Department of History, King's College London |
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Paper 1109-a |
The Paradox of a Purpuratus Refusing the Purple: How Theoderic Ruled the Roman Empire |
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Paper 1109-b |
The Construction of Statehood in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Reign of Edward the Elder |
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Paper 1109-c |
Regulating Vengeance: How to Maintain the Rule of Law in Merovingian Gaul |
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Abstract |
The 300 years between the 'Fall of the Western Roman Empire' and its Carolingian resurrection are not a blind spot on the political landscape, not even if we restrict our view to the Barbarian West. Compared to its predecessor the successor kingdoms show deficits in both government and governance but nonetheless coped with the processes of political and social disintegration. Rulers as well as commentators frequently harked back to the Roman Empire as an overarching blue print for their own politics or as a reservoir of legitimacy. However, it is not clear to what extent this was purely rhetoric or at which point and in which fields this point of reference stopped to serve its purpose. Besides, in Ostrogothic Italy the connection to the Roman Empire was obvious but which Empire acted as the model for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's recourse to imperial terminology? |
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Session |
1507 |
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Title |
Law and Empire: Editing the Carolingian Capitularies, I |
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Date/Time |
Thursday 10 July 2014: 09.00-10.30 |
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Sponsor |
Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften / Monumenta Germaniae Historica / Sonderforschungsbereich 950 'Manuskriptkulturen in Asien, Afrika und Europa', Universität Hamburg |
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Organiser |
Karl Ubl, Historisches Institut, Universität zu Köln |
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Moderator/Chair |
Gerhard Schmitz, Seminar für mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen |
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Paper 1507-a |
Looking for the Coherence and Meaning of a Carolingian Heterogeneous Notebook: A New Examination of Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, MS Lat. 2718 |
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Paper 1507-b |
A Law and an Oath: The Constitutio Romana of 824 |
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Paper 1507-c |
Capitula or Capitulare?: Editing the So-Called Capitulare missorum from 829 |
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Abstract |
Legislation in the form of capitularies was a hallmark of Frankish kingship since the 6th century. This instrument of royal power was, however, substantially transformed after the imperial coronation of Charlemagne. The period between 800 and 830 is rightly considered as the heyday of capitulary legislation. The first of two sessions, while focusing on the transmission of capitularies in the manuscripts of the 9th century, will discuss the problems related to manufacturing 'authentic texts' of the capitularies. |
Mehr Informationen hier.
Property and Power in Late Antiquity
Datum: 11.bis 14. Juni 2014.
Ort: New York University.
Sektion 9, Freitag 13.06, 14:30-16:00:
Monika Schuol (Berlin/Chemnitz) - Gregory I and the patrimonium Petri: The Church's property as a major instrument of papal power?
Damian Fernandez (Northern Illinois University) - Church building and social status in Visigothic Iberia.
Till Stüber (Berlin) - Bishops, Kings, and the Appropriation of Church Property. Some Thoughts on the Role of precariae verbo regis during the Merovingian Age.
Mehr Informationen hier.
Wege – Wasser – Wissen auf der iberischen Halbinsel
Datum: 1. bis 23. Mai 2014.
Ort: Elche Alicante, Spanien.
Freitag, 23. Mai 2014, 09:30 - 10:00
Stefan Esders (Berlin) - Reisende soll man nicht aufhalten? Über erlaubte und unerlaubte Mobilität im westgotischen Spanien (¿No molesten a los viajantes? Mobilidad permitida y no permitida en la Espana visigoda).
Mehr Informationen hier.
