Veranstaltungen

How Sociology of Literature might sharpen the Historian’s Eye

Some Observations from Early Medieval Hagiography

Presentation

Wednesday 27 March 2013 • 16h00 • Seminar Room • Wohllebengasse 12-14  • 1040 Wien

organized by:
SFB Visions of Community (FWF) & FSP Gemeinschaftskonzepte, Identitäten und politische Integration (Universität Wien)

Abstract

Historiographies of Identity II

International Conference CMRP

CULTURAL MEMORY and the RESOURCES of the PAST
in the early middle ages

21-22 February 2013

Programm

Location
The British School at Rome • Via Gramsci 61 • 00197 Rome, Italy

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Evening lecture by
Rosamond McKitterick

Transformations of the Roman Past:
Cultural Memory and Roman Identity in the Early Middle Ages

Friday, 22 February, 6 pm

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This conference at the British School at Rome represents the culmination of a three-year HERA project by the Universities of Cambridge, Leeds, Utrecht and Vienna 2010-2013, generously funded by the ESF. The project has explored the eclectic uses of the resources of the past in the post-Roman successor states of western Europe in the early middle ages. It had two principal aims:

1. to determine the role played by the resources of the past in forming the identities of the communities of early medieval western Europe;

2. to identify the process by which the new discourses, ethnic identities and social models of early medieval Europe have come to form an essential part of modern European national and transnational identities.

Our work has increasingly exposed the importance of Rome, Roman history, and the integration of Christian and imperial Rome into the cultural memory of early medieval Europe. The extant manuscript material from the early Middle Ages has constituted a major resource to shed new light on the process of codification and modification of the cultural heritage, and for the study of cultural dynamics in general.

Speakers will include Mayke de Jong (Utrecht), Clemens Gantner (Vienna), Rosamond McKitterick (Cambridge), Sven Meeder (Nijmegen), Walter Pohl (Vienna) and Ian Wood (Leeds).

Anfangsgeschichten/Origin Stories

Der Beginn volkssprachiger Schriftlichkeit in komparatistischer Perspektive

The Rise of Vernacular Literacy in a Comparative Perspective

Internationales Symposion
5. - 8. February 2013

Institut für Germanistik & ERC OVERMODE

Dienstag, 5. Februar 2013 • 19 Uhr
Eröffnungsvortrag im Kleinen Festsaal
Hauptgebäude der Universität

6.-8. Februar 2013
Institut für Mittelalterfoschung • Wohllebengasse 12-14
1040 Wien • Seminarraum • Erdgeschoss

Organisation:
OVERMODE/Institut für Mittelalterforschung ÖAW – Institut für Germanistik/Universität Wien

Programm • Abstract