TEXTS AND IDENTITIES IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES NR

TEXTS AND IDENTITIES IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES NR
19: A GATHERING OF SENIOR MEMBERS FROM THE YEARS
1997-2014
FU BERLIN, TOPOI HOUSE, Hittorfstrasse 18, 5-7 NOVEMBER
2015
THURSDAY 5 November, 15-18 hrs
Session 1: 15.00-16.00
Some introductions
Mayke de Jong (Universiteit Utrecht/FU Berlin): Welcome everybody! Why
T&I-Plus, and above all, How?
Stefan Esders (FU Berlin)
1. Where are we? The Topoi House, Dahlem and its (recent) history.
2. Short introduction to Geschichte der Spätantike und des Frühen
Mittelalters, Friedrich Meinecke-Institut für Geschichte and its
research(ers).
16.00-16.30 Coffee/Tea Break
Session 2: 16.30-17.45
Into the tenth century: post-Carolingian perspectives
Chair: Charles West (Sheffield University)
Contributors:
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)
Tim Barnwell (University of Leeds)
FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER
Session 3: 9.00-10.30
Religion and Politics I
Chair: Rob Meens (Universiteit Utrecht)
Ann Christys (Independent scholar/University of Leeds)
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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, Wien)
A brief comment on ‘Heilsgeschichte’
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
Session 4: 11.00-13.00
Chair: Marianne Pollheimer (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Religion and Politics II
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
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
Session 5: 14.30-16.00
Chair: Carine van Rhijn (Universiteit Utrecht)
Religion and politics, session III (people and ideas)
Rutger Kramer, Clemens Gantner (Österreichische Akademie der
Wissenschaften, Wien)
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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
Session 6: 16.30-18.00
Chair: Thomas Lienhard (Université Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Methodologies and approaches
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)
SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER
Session 7: 9.30-10.30
Chair: Ian Wood (University of Leeds)
Projects, and more projects: starting, running and ending.
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
10.30-11.00 coffee/tea break
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Session 8: 11.00-12.30
Chair: Walter Pohl
Texts and identities, some brief and concluding reflections on past,
present and future
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)
12.30-12.45 Closing remarks
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