Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	803
Title	Defining Kingdoms in 10th-Century Europe
Date/Time	Tuesday 2 July 2013: 16.30-18.00
Sponsor	Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Organiser	Geoffrey Koziol, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley
Moderator/Chair	Theo Riches, Exzellenzcluster 'Religion & Politik', Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Paper 803-a	The (Dark) Matter of France: Monasticism and the Making of the West Frankish Kingdom (Language: English) Geoffrey Koziol, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Mentalities; Monasticism; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 803-b	Who Were the Lotharingians?: Defining Political Belonging after the End of the Carolingian Empire (Language: English) Simon MacLean, School of History, University of St Andrews Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Mentalities; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 803-c	Beyond the Charter Horizon: (Un)Making England in the 10th Century (Language: English) Charles Insley, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies / Department of History, University of Manchester Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Mentalities; Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	The session looks at notions of political belonging in various 10th-century kingdoms after the end of the Carolingian Empire. The hallmarks of the period are conventionally seen as fragmentation and incoherence. Yet somehow large political units took shape and persisted. The three papers explore the institutions and discourses that articulated the sense of a kingdom in this period, and attempt thereby to uncover its distinctive features.