#IMC2014 Session - Networks and Neighbours, VII: Relationships of Power in the Early Middle Ages

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Session	1715
Title	Networks and Neighbours, VII: Relationships of Power in the Early Middle Ages
Date/Time	Thursday 10 July 2014: 14.15-15.45
Sponsor	Networks & Neighbours Network
Organiser	Michael Burrows, School of History, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair	Michael J. Kelly, School of History, University of Leeds / Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Paper 1715-a	The Visigothic State and the Relations of Personal Dependence: Transition, Transformation, and Domination (Language: English) Paulo Henrique de Carvalho Pachá, Núcleo Interdisciplinar de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Sociedades Pré-Capitalistas, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro Index Terms: Political Thought; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1715-b	Lower Class Violence and the End of the Roman Empire (Language: English) Michael Burrows, School of History, University of Leeds Index Terms: Military History; Social History
Paper 1715-c	Donation of Land and State Building in 7th- and 8th-Century Northumbria (Language: English) Renato Rodrigues Da Silva, Department of History, University of Leicester Index Terms: Administration; Charters and Diplomatics; Political Thought
Abstract	The notion of Empire immediately precipitates consideration of issues of decline and aftermath. This session will attempt to elucidate these related themes through investigation of relationships of power during the final years of the Western Roman Empire and the formation of its successor states. These relationships governed the social status, mobility, and interactions of the individuals who lived during these formative years and their developments give us insight into their fluid socio-political context. In order to investigate general trends that can be discerned from the personal evidence of Late Antique social relationships, a broad spectrum of places and times will be investigated; in particular Iberia, Gaul, and Britain, from the 4th to 8th centuries.

#IMC2014 Session - Networks and Neighbours, VI: Three Views of Empire and Kingdom - Byzantium, Denmark, and Norway

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Session	1615
Title	Networks and Neighbours, VI: Three Views of Empire and Kingdom - Byzantium, Denmark, and Norway
Date/Time	Thursday 10 July 2014: 11.15-12.45
Sponsor	Networks & Neighbours Network
Organiser	Tim Barnwell, School of History, University of Leeds
	Jason Berg, School of History, University of Leeds
	Richard Broome, School of History, University of Leeds
	Michael J. Kelly, School of History, University of Leeds / Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moderator/Chair	Hans-Werner Goetz, Historisches Seminar, Universität Hamburg
Paper 1615-a	The Roman Empire in the 6th Century: Considerations on the 'Fall of Rome' and 'Reconquest' according to the Gothic War (Language: English) Renato Viana Boy, Laboratório de Estudos Medievais, Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul, Santa Catarina Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Political Thought
Paper 1615-b	The 'Thematic of the Counselor' in the Gesta Danorum and the Strengthening of the Danish Hegemony in the Medieval Baltic Area (Language: English) André Muceniecks, Departamento de História, Universidade de São Paulo Index Terms: Crusades; Ecclesiastical History; Political Thought
Paper 1615-c	The Spear, the Sword, and the Axe: St Michael the Archangel, St Óláfr and the Northern Crusades (Language: English) Renan M. Birro, Colegiado de História, Universidade Federal do Amapá / Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo Index Terms: Crusades; Ecclesiastical History; Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	This session aims to analyse historical and historiographical aspects of the Byzantine Empire, Scandinavia and the Baltic frontier in the Middle Ages. The foci for investigation are the exercise of power, legitimacy, aristocratic perspectives and the involvement of churchmen in political affairs. Likewise, the context of the production of history in both a narrow and a broad sense is not neglected. In short, we are concerned with hegemony and power in three different historical moments. Of course, the research finds both similar, general issues and very different, more localised problems in each case study.

#IMC2014 Session - Networks and Neighbours, V: Creating Networks in the Merovingian Kingdoms

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Session	1515
Title	Networks and Neighbours, V: Creating Networks in the Merovingian Kingdoms
Date/Time	Thursday 10 July 2014: 09.00-10.30
Sponsor	Networks & Neighbours Network
Organiser	Tim Barnwell, School of History, University of Leeds
	Jason Berg, School of History, University of Leeds
	Richard Broome, School of History, University of Leeds
	Michael J. Kelly, School of History, University of Leeds / Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moderator/Chair	E. T. Dailey, Amsterdam University Press
Paper 1515-a	Strategies for Transferring Goods in Episcopal and Secular Testaments from the Merovingian Period (Language: English) Karen Torres da Rosa, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Social History
Paper 1515-b	Ecclesiastical Networks in Merovingian Poitiers (Language: English) Hope Williard, School of History, University of Leeds Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Hagiography
Paper 1515-c	Outsiders in the Community: Franks and Non-Franks in the Late Merovingian Period (Language: English) Richard Broome, School of History, University of Leeds Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Political Thought
Abstract	Of all the kingdoms that came into existence in the aftermath of the end of Roman imperial power in the West, that of the Merovingian Franks in Gaul has left the greatest literary record in terms of both quantity and variety. This amount and range of source material allows historians to see first-hand the networks that were created in in Gaul from the 6th to the early-8th centuries, sometimes in quite an intimate way. The networks represented in the sources are above all those of the upper echelons of early medieval society: bishops, kings and noble. Yet we can see the ways the people in these networks interacted not only through idealised examples given in law codes or what was written about them after their deaths in histories, chronicles and saints' lives, but also through more contemporary witnesses such as wills, placita, letters and poetry. The purpose of this panel, then, is to explore the ways social networks were built and maintained through the interactions of the nobility in Merovingian Gaul, and the way these networks and interactions were understood by those within them. The first paper provides a comparison between two testaments - one episcopal, one secular - allowing us to consider the different strategies used in each for the transfer of goods within the social circles the testators developed in life. The second paper considers the poems of Venantius Fortunatus and what they can tell us about how an individual interacted with several different networks and integrated himself within them. Finally, the third paper addresses wider networks by considering the relationship between Frankish identity and perceptions of other peoples, especially those in southern Gaul and across the Rhine, in the late-7th and early 8th centuries.

#IMC2014 Session - Networks and Neighbours, IV: Understanding the Past in Texts and Manuscripts

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Session	1315
Title	Networks and Neighbours, IV: Understanding the Past in Texts and Manuscripts
Date/Time	Wednesday 9 July 2014: 16.30-18.00
Sponsor	Networks & Neighbours Network
Organiser	Tim Barnwell, School of History, University of Leeds
	Jason Berg, School of History, University of Leeds
	Richard Broome, School of History, University of Leeds
	Michael J. Kelly, School of History, University of Leeds / Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moderator/Chair	Rosamond McKitterick, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Paper 1315-a	Anastasius Bibliotecarius's Historia Tripartita and 9th-Century Claims to the Imperial Past (Language: English) Jesse W. Torgerson, Wesleyan University, Connecticut Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1315-b	Targets of Opportunity: Blank Space, Obscure Texts, and the Preservation of the Past in Early Medieval Manuscripts (Language: English) Ralph Mathisen, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Index Terms: Language and Literature - Latin; Learning (The Classical Inheritance); Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1315-c	Childebrand and the Chronicle of Fredegar: The Case of Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. Lat 616 (Language: English) Alessandro Gnasso, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Historiography - Modern Scholarship; Manuscripts and Palaeography; Political Thought
Abstract	Medieval texts are crucial to our modern understanding of the past, but they also have much to tell us about medieval authors' own attitudes to their past. After all, the authors and compilers of medieval historical narrative texts were as much historians as their modern counterparts, even if the genre of history-writing has changed dramatically in the modern period. Likewise, even when not writing directly about history, medieval authors often hinted at or directly referred to their own knowledge of the past. Yet it is important to remember that our knowledge of medieval texts is ultimately dictated by the manuscripts that preserve them, and that these manuscripts often bear witness to textual variations. Thus, each copy of a text deserves to be studied in its own right, and a single manuscript can alter what we think we know about a text and its author. The purpose of this panel, then, is to explore our understanding of three early medieval texts and the networks within which their authors worked. Two of the papers deal directly with the issue of how authors understood their past; the first with the Byzantine understanding of the imperial past in the new imperial context of the 9th century as presented by Anastasius Bibliotecarius; the second with Aldhelm's presentation of paganism, which may be based on his knowledge of Anglo-Saxon or Roman pagan practices. The third paper deals with the issue of how a manuscript can alter our understanding of a text; in this case the version of the Continuations of the Chronicle of Fredegar preserved in Reg.Lat. 616.

#IMC2014 Session - Networks and Neighbours, III: Networks and the Cult of Saints

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Session	1215
Title	Networks and Neighbours, III: Networks and the Cult of Saints
Date/Time	Wednesday 9 July 2014: 14.15-15.45
Sponsor	Networks & Neighbours Network
Organiser	Samantha Kahn Herrick, Department of History, Syracuse University, New York
Moderator/Chair	Paul Hayward, Department of History, Lancaster University
Paper 1215-a	Storytelling Networks and the Warrior Legend of St Bovo in the Central Middle Ages (Language: English) Adrian Cornell du Houx, Department of History, Lancaster University Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Hagiography
Paper 1215-b	Hagiographical Networks: Sharing Stories about Apostolic Saints (Language: English) Samantha Kahn Herrick, Department of History, Syracuse University, New York Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Hagiography
Paper 1215-c	Miracles versus Rumours of Saints' Sinful Behaviour: Miracles of Light and Water in Lotharingian Hagiography (Language: English) Anne Wagner, Centre de Recherche Universitaire Lorraine d'histoire (CRUHL) / Département d'histoire, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Hagiography
Abstract	This panel explores the roles of networks in diffusing ideas and texts concerning saints in the Middle Ages. Although the study of hagiographical texts and the cult of saints generally is among the oldest branches of medieval scholarship, researchers are only just beginning to investigate the potential of networks to shed new light on this vital aspect of the medieval world. The panel advances such research and demonstrates the value of networks for studying saints' cults. The first paper by Adrian Cornell du Houx, investigates the case of an unusual type of sanctity - the lay warrior saint - which gained popularity around 1100. It proposes that the roads linking southern France and northern Italy formed a network along which traveled not only people and goods, but also ideas and stories about saints. That is, Cornell du Houx offers a new means to explain shifting ideas about sanctity and the rise of new cults. 'Storytelling networks' represents an important new concept for scholars of hagiography, saints' cults, and communications generally to ponder. The second paper explores the roles played by various types of networks in diffusing stories about saints. It draws on manuscript and textual evidence to trace the circulation and intertwining of vitae honoring apostolic founding bishops. In order to explain such evidence, the paper suggests that we seek the networks that linked communities and facilitated the spread of information. By means of case studies, the paper demonstrates how different networks thrived at specific moments and also how such networks changed over time. It argues, therefore, that complex patterns of circulation and textual interaction reflect changing networks. It further suggests that the sharing of stories itself represented a sort of network, in which myriad different participants collaborated in the construction of history. In the third paper highlights two themes found in Lotharingian vitae. The paper focuses in particular on two examples: the case of sunbeams supporting the garments hastily set aside by saints facing judgment for false charges; and miraculous cures performed by bath water, without the knowledge of the saints themselves. The paper suggests that vitae may have influenced one another to spread these themes across Lotharingia and it questions the meaning of these miracles.

Networks and Neighbours, II: Aspects of the Concept of the Roman Empire in the Early Middle Ages

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Session	1115
Title	Networks and Neighbours, II: Aspects of the Concept of the Roman Empire in the Early Middle Ages
Date/Time	Wednesday 9 July 2014: 11.15-12.45
Sponsor	Networks & Neighbours Network
Organiser	Ioannis Papadopoulos, School of History, University of Leeds
	Catalin Taranu, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
	Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto, School of History, University of Leeds / Coordenação de aperfeiçoamento de pessoal de nível superior (CAPES)
Moderator/Chair	Lucy Grig, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Paper 1115-a	Empire in the Anglo-Saxon Imagination (Language: English) Catalin Taranu, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Index Terms: Language and Literature - Latin; Language and Literature - Old English; Learning (The Classical Inheritance)
Paper 1115-b	The Concept of the Roman Empire in Augustine's City of God (Language: English) Ioannis Papadopoulos, School of History, University of Leeds Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Learning (The Classical Inheritance); Theology
Paper 1115-c	City of God, City of Goths: The Rhetoric of Empire between Augustine of Hippo and Cassiodorus Senator (Language: English) Otávio Luiz Vieira Pinto, School of History, University of Leeds / Coordenação de aperfeiçoamento de pessoal de nível superior (CAPES) Index Terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance); Political Thought; Theology
Abstract	Empire is first of all a place in the mind. In Augustine's theology, in Cassiodorus's political thought or in Anglo-Saxon legendary retellings of Roman history, the Roman Empire is explained, reinterpreted, fictionalized, and projected upon. The Empire is transformed in its turn by these texts: it is given theoretical foundations and political direction; it is even resurrected as legend of times past. This panel focuses on the complex interactions between the ideas and realities of the Empire. The three papers seek to uncover the subtle dynamics of mythical past, pragmatic present and utopian future in conceptualizing the Roman Imperium at three discreet times.

Networks and Neighbours, I: Roman Provincial Capitals of Hispania after the Empire - Tarraco, Emerita, and Corduba

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Session	1015
Title	Networks and Neighbours, I: Roman Provincial Capitals of Hispania after the Empire - Tarraco, Emerita, and Corduba
Date/Time	Wednesday 9 July 2014: 09.00-10.30
Sponsor	Networks & Neighbours Network / Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona
Organiser	Meritxell Pérez Martínez, Departament d'Història i Història de l'Art, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona
Moderator/Chair	Ian N. Wood, School of History, University of Leeds
Paper 1015-a	A Symptomatic Reading of the Vitas Patrum Emeritensium: Mérida in Late Visigothic Spania (Language: English) Michael J. Kelly, School of History, University of Leeds / Hebrew University of Jerusalem Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Hagiography; Political Thought
Paper 1015-b	Cordoba: From Empire to Caliphate (Language: English) Ann R. Christys, Independent Scholar, Leeds Index Terms: Archaeology - General; Islamic and Arabic Studies
Paper 1015-c	Medieval Tarraco between Two Empires with Enemies as Neighbours (Language: English) Lawrence J. McCrank, Library, Information & Media Studies, Chicago State University Index Terms: Archaeology - General; Islamic and Arabic Studies; Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	Empire left a deep and long-lasting impression in the territories of old Romanisation known as Roman Hispania with visible effects at all levels of human development. Even when it ceased to play a major political role in the West, Empire continued to shape political, social and cultural structures in Hispania. The main purpose of this session is to explore the process of developing and reshaping this heritage by the political structures that succeeded the Empire in Early Medieval Hispania. It is intended to analyse this phenomenon through the evidence provided by its three historical provincial capitals: Tarraco, Emerita, and Corduba. The former Roman provincial capitals of Hispania continued to be centres of power, cities with political and ecclesiastical importance where a certain concept of civilitas survived. The legacy of the Empire in these cities will be analysed, as well as how it transformed and adapted over time facing the diverse historical developments.