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 , (814-924) governed. 400-1200 Organized by: Clemens Gantner, Walter Pohl, SCIRE Project International Workshop • 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- of the 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 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 25-26 April 2016 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 Programme

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