Ottonian Brooch, Metropolitan Museum of New York
WEDNESDAY 17 MAY
8:45-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Welcome by Stefan Esders and Alice Hicklin
9:15-10:00 ‘A CENTURY OF IRON?’ – THE TENTH CENTURY IN RETROSPECT
Chair: Stefan Esders (Berlin)
Stuart Airlie (Glasgow): ‘Now, sir, we’ll decline and we’ll fall’: historiographies of the tenth century
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 METHODS AND MODELS OF HISTORY-WRITING IN THE TENTH CENTURY
Chair: Alice Hicklin (Berlin)
Edward Roberts (Liverpool): Flodoard, his Annals and the shaping of West Frankish history
Geoffrey Koziol (Berkeley): The changing lessons of history after empire
12:10-1:00 PHD SESSION: HISTORICAL WRITING AND THE MANIPULATION OF THE PAST
Chair: Patrick Geary (Princeton)
Patrick Marschner (Vienna): Moses in Hispania? The Battle of Covadonga and biblical typology in the foundation myth of the Asturian kingdom
Jelle Wassenaar (Vienna): Crisis of empire, crisis of belonging: self and patria in the works of Rather of Verona
1:00-2:30 Catered Lunch (eaten outside weather permitting)
2:30-4:00 THE TRANSFER OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE MEDIEVAL MEDITERRANEAN
Chair: Sarah Hamilton (Exeter)
Giorgia Vocino (Venice): Migrant masters and their books. Italian scholars and knowledge transfer in post-Carolingian Europe
Matthias M. Tischler (Barcelona): The rise of medieval Catalonia as a middleground in the Euromediterranean network of knowledge transfer and learning, ninth to eleventh centuries
4:00-4:30 Coffee Break
4:30-6:00 IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY IN THE TENTH CENTURY
Chair: Walter Pohl (Vienna)
Max Diesenberger (Vienna): Notions of belonging in the long tenth century
Steven Vanderputten (Ghent): A new look at the Irenwelle in tenth-century Lotharingia
7:00 for 7:30 Dinner for speakers
Hitda Codex, Hessische Landesbibliothek, MS 1640
THURSDAY 18 MAY
9:00-10:30 MEMORY AND THE ECCLESIASTICAL INSTITUTION
Chair: Robert Gallagher (Oxford)
Sarah Greer (St Andrews): Queen Mathilda and Quedlinburg: the evolution of a foundation story
Levi Roach (Exeter): Forging memory in an age of iron: Bishop Pilgrim at Passau
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 PHD SESSION: RELIGIOUS MEMORY, MANUSCRIPTS AND THE UTILIZATION OF THE WRITTEN PAST
Chair: Sarah Hamilton (Exeter)
Felix Schaefer (Tübingen): Placing the Carolingian past in the late ninth century. Lotharingian ‘lieux de mémoire’ and their manuscripts
Ekaterina Novokhatko (Barcelona): Martyrologies in the Benedictine world of medieval Catalonia: revealing the past, transforming the present
Lenneke van Raaij (Exeter): Liturgy for a saint: venerating St Eucharius in Ottonian Trier
12:15-1:45 Lunch at FU campus restaurant
1:45-2:35 PHD SESSION: POLITICAL CULTURE AT THE OTTONIAN COURT
Chair: Patrick Geary (Princeton)
Frances Murray (St Andrews): Remorse and reconciliation: the tears of rulers and rebels in the tenth century
Megan Welton (Notre Dame): Exhortations to virtus in tenth-century liturgical practice
2:35-3:00 Coffee Break
3:00-5:30 LAW AND LEGALITY
Chair: Ludger Körntgen (Mainz)
Maya Maskarinec (New York): ‘Not even a relative of the Roman pontiff would have been able to evade the law’: Roman Problems, Legal Answers in Benedict of Monte Soratte’s Chronicle
Stefan Esders (Berlin): Uses of Carolingian law in the early reign of Conrad II: Actors, topics and strategies
[Comfort break between Papers 2 and 3]
Sarah Hamilton (Exeter): Bishops, Books and Excommunication
Evening Visit to traditional Biergarten/other outdoor dining option for those who wish! Please indicate interest by contacting Alice.
Gospel Book of Otto III, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek BSB Clm 4453, Reichenau, Image 47
FRIDAY 19 MAY
STAATSBIBLIOTHEK, POTSDAMER STRASSE 33, 10785
9:00-1:00 PRESENTATIONS AT STAATSBIBLIOTHEK
To include discussions of original manuscripts and digitisation project
Presentations by Stefan Esders, Steffan Patzold, Matthias M. Tischler & Ekaterina Novothatko, Steven Vanderputten, Charles West.
2:30-5:00 JUDGEMENT AND MARRIAGE IN THE OTTONIAN EMPIRE
Chair: Stefan Esders (Berlin)
Phillipe Depreux (Hamburg): Ein Apostel, ein Kaiser, ein Mönch und der besiegelnde Kuss – oder: Wie kann man heiraten?
Charles West (Sheffield): Why shouldn’t judges get married? An Ottonian perspective
[Comfort break between Papers 2 and 3]
Simon MacLean (St Andrews): Pasts and Presents in the Lothar Crystal
5:00-5:45 Closing Remarks by Stefan Esders and Discussion
7:30 Dinner at Heising – complimentary for conference participants
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