Session108
TitleSmall Worlds, Wide Horizons: Local Powers in the Early Middle Ages
Date/TimeMonday 11 July 2011: 11.15-12.45
 
SponsorInstitut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
 
OrganiserBernhard Zeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
 
Moderator/ChairYitzhak Hen, Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
 
Paper 108-a Priests as Local Power-Brokers, 8th-9th Centuries
(Language: English)
Steffen Patzold, Seminar für mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Index Terms: Daily Life; Religious Life
Paper 108-b Of the Lives of Centenarii and Related Local Powers in Early Medieval Alemannia, 8th-9th Centuries
(Language: English)
Bernhard Zeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Daily Life; Local History
Paper 108-c How Local was the Power of the Saio in Northern Iberia, c. 1000?
(Language: English)
Wendy Davies, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Daily Life; Law
 
AbstractThe three papers of the session aim to throw some light on 'local powers' like clerics, lay office-holders, and other persons with a certain importance or influence on a local or regional level in Early Medieval Europe.