Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1337
Title	The Transformation of the Carolingian World, IV
Date/Time	Wednesday 5 July 2017: 16.30-18.00
Sponsor	'Transformation of the Carolingian World' Network
Organiser	Richard Corradini, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Moderator/Chair	Rosamond McKitterick, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Paper 1337-a	The Carolingian Formula Collections: Why Do They Disappear? (Language: English) Warren Brown, Division of the Humanities & Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Law; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1337-b	Diplomatic Knowledge on the Edge of Organised Corpora: Considerations on Dispersed Charter Models (Language: English) Philippe Depreux, Historisches Seminar / Exzellenzcluster 'Understanding Written Artefacts', Universität Hamburg Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Education; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1337-c	The Comital Office in Ottonian Germany (Language: English) David Bachrach, Department of History, University of New Hampshire, Durham Index Terms: Administration; Historiography - Medieval; Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	'Transformation of the Carolingian World' is an international project that focuses on the cultural, political, economic, social, and religious changes in the period c. 900-1050. Modern narratives often define this 'long 10th century' by what it was not: it is either presented as the time when the 9th-century cultural achievements, social structures, and political geography of the Carolingians disintegrated, or as the first stage in the birth of European nations. Building on a wide range of sources, ranging from conciliar texts to historical narratives and poems, these papers suggest alternative perspectives of this exciting epoch of transition.