Italy and Its Rulers in the Ninth Century
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This international workshop brings togetherInternational specia- Conference,ERC Vienna, Advanced Grant social Italy and its Rulers in the cohesion, lists on ninth-century Italy in a discussion-oriented identity Ninth Century: event. It addresses the question how Carolingian28-30 January 2016 and Transformation religion Was there a Carolingian Italy? “Carolingian Italy” was in the end, and how the Ca- in International Workshop • 25 - 26 April 2016 rolingian rulers in the century after Charlemagne europe, (814-924) governed. 400-1200 Organized by: Clemens Gantner, Walter Pohl, SCIRE Project • Workshop International In most divisions of the Carolingian realm, the imperial dignity remained attached to Italy. In contrast, some North Alpine commentators saw the Italian kingdom as a mere appendix to the Frankish empire. The Carolingian rulers in Italy did not in- the of spire histories or texts that depicted them ProgrAmmE in a very favourable light. Carolingian rule introduced some momentous texts and practices in Italy – capitularies, the Caro- Italy and lingian minuscule, counts, placita to name just a few of the innovations. Neverthe- LOCATION its Rulers in Hotel Mercure Wien City less, in many respects, we may wonder how Hollandstraße 3 deep their impact in Italy really was. 1020 Wien the Ninth April 2016 25-26 INFORMATION Italian Carolingian rulers turned out to be ERC AdG Project 269591 SCIRE rather luckless and maybe because of this Institut für Mittelalterforschung Century: Hollandstraße 11-13 were also depicted as quite weak kings or 1020 Wien emperors, both by contemporaries and in Tel.: +43 (0)1 51581 7200 Was there a [email protected] modern research. Were they really so eph- univie.ac.at/scire Carolingian emeral? Or were they the self-confident Italy? World rulers we find Louis II’s famous letter to the east-Roman emperor Basil I? How did the Carolingians, starting with Pippin of Italy, govern their Italian realm and how, if at all, did they try to expand it? How did they shape their relationship with the other Carolingian realms? grafikdesign dagmargiesriegl I taly and its taly , 25 April Monday Literacy and Documents Rome, Ravenna … and the Carolingians Was there a Carolingian Italy? Dorine van EspElo Presentations and enlarged discussion Elina ScrEEN Moderation: Walter Pohl Italians in Francia as seen in Representations of Carolingian R 14:45-16:15 12:00-12:45 kings and Italy in the Roman Liber the charter evidence ulers in the Tom NoblE Pontificalis Programme Flavia DE RUBEis What was “Carolingian” about Session 3 l’alfabetismo tra miti e Lunch Break, 12:45-13:45 (buffet at hotel) Signum manus: Session 6 ninth-century Italy? realtà in Italia italo-settentrionale nel 9:30 - 11:45 Paolo DEloGU corso del secolo IX Tom Brown Problemi della dominazione franca Coffee Break, 30 minutes A Byzantine cuckoo in the Frankish N Session 1 inth in Italia 13:45-14:30 nest? The relations of the Exarchate of François BOUGard Two Young Carolingian Rulers Ravenna with the Kingdom of Italy in the C’era una Italia carolingia? Perché fare of Italy long ninth century C entury: Was there a there Was entury: la domanda? Marco StoffElla 16:45-18:15 Urbanism and Symbolic Capital Coffee Break, 30 minutes Pippino, re d’Italia Clemens GantnER Caroline Goodson Politics of Identity Session 4 Louis II of Italy in his early years Urbanism in the politics of power in Early Medieval Italy Stefano Gasparri 14:30-15:15 12:15-13:00 Il governo di un’area periferica: Coffee Break, 30 minutes I Carolingi e l‘Italia nord-orientale Cristina LA Rocca Session 2 Session 7 Lunch Break, 13:00-14:00 (buffet at hotel) Tuesday, 26 April C Building a new Carolingian capital: arolingian th th Giuseppe AlbErtoni Verona in the 9 and 10 century Mothers and the Court Life Vassalli senza feudalesimo: il caso Francesco VEronESE 15:45-17:15 15:45-17:15 14:00-14:45 14:00-14:45 dell’Italia carolingia Roberta Cimino Rome and the Others: Saints, relics, and hagiography as social and political I Mothers in Italian ruling dynasties tools in Carolingian Italy taly? 10:00-11:30 Giorgia Vocino A country of poets or a country of Session 5 disputers? Rhetoric and dialectic between court life and judicial debate in Carolingian Italy Coffee Break, 30 minutes subject to change.