CMRP

Professor Rosamond McKitterick, PI

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Title: 
Professor of Medieval History
Institution: 
Cambridge University
Address: 
Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9EF
E-mail: 
rdm21@cam.ac.uk
Telephone: 
+44 1223 335328
Fax: 
+44 1223 335968
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Research Interests: 

the Frankish Church, the Frankish kingdoms, literacy, history, perceptions of the past, and memory in the Carolingian world; the migration of ideas in the early middle ages, the reception of translated Greek texts in the Latin west, and the implications and impact of the historical and legal texts produced during the sixth and seventh centuries in Rome.  

Publications: 
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  • History and memory in the Carolingian world (Cambridge University Press, 2004) 347 pp. (French translation: Histoire et memoire dans le monde Carolingien, Turnhout 2009)
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  • 'Takamiya MS 58 and the transmission of Jerome's Epistle 106 in the early middle ages', in: Matsuda, T. and Linenthal, R. (eds.) The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya (Woodbridge 2004), pp. 3-18
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  • 'Akkulturation and the writing of history in the early middle ages', in: Hägermann, D., Haubrichs, W., Jarnut, J. and Giefers, C. (eds.) Akkulturation. Probleme einer germanisch-romanischen Kultursynthese in Spätantike und frühem Mittelalter (Berlin 2005), pp. 381-95
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  • 'Charlemagne and Carolingian Culture' in: Story, J. (ed.) Charlemagne. Empire and Society (Manchester 2005), pp. 151-66
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  • 'History, law and communication with the past in the Carolingian period', in Comunicare e significare nell’alto medioevo, Settimane di Studio del Centro Italiano di Studi sull’alto medioevo 52 (Spoleto 2005), pp. 941-80
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  • 'Perceptions of the history of the church in the early middle ages: the role of texts', in: Hagemann, M. and Mostert, M. (eds.) Reading Images and Texts: Medieval Images and Texts as Forms of Communication, Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (Utrecht 2005), pp. 207-20
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  • Perceptions of the past in the early middle ages, Robert Conway Lectures, University of Notre Dame 2004 (Notre Dame 2006) 154 pp.
  • Karl der Große. Gestalten des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (Darmstadt 2008) 472 pp. English version: Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity (Cambridge 2008) 460 pp.
  • 'The migration of ideas in the early middle ages: ways and means', in: Bremmer, R., Dekkers, K. and Lendinara, P. (eds.) Storehouses of Wholesome Learning: Accumulation and Dissemination of Encyclopaedic Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages, Mediaevalia Groningana (Leuven, Paris and Stirling 2007) pp. 1-17
  • 'La place du Liber Pontificalis dans les genres historiographiques du haut moyen âge', in: Bougard, F. and Sot, M. (eds.) Liber, gesta., histoire. Écrire l’histoire des évêques et des papes de l’antiquité au XXe siècle (Turnhout 2009) pp. 23-36

Professor Walter Pohl

Project Role: 
Project Leader
Title: 
Professor of Medieval History, University of Vienna, Director of the Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Institution: 
Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Address: 
Wohllebengasse 12-14, 1040 Vienna, Austria
E-mail: 
Walter.pohl@oeaw.ac.at
Telephone: 
+43-1-51581-7240
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43-1-51581-7230
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Date and Place of Birth: Vienna, 27 December 1953

 

Studies:

  • 1981 MPhil at University of Vienna in History and Anglistics.
  • 1984 PhD at University of Vienna in History
  • 1984-86: Course at the Institute of Austrian Historical Research, Staatsprüfung 1986

 

Research Interests: 

The history of the human sense of belonging to a group of other humans, esp. the sentiments of ethnicity and its impact on medieval society. Early Medieval History, esp. the History of the Italian Peninsula and the Lombard kingdom. The History of the so-called Migration Era. The role of steppe empires in medieval Europe. The role of Christianity in Medieval Europe.
 

Publications: 
  • Eastern Central Europe in the Early Middle Ages: Conflicts, Migrations and Ethnic Processes, Romanian Academy. Institute of Archaeology Ia?i, Florilegium magistrorum historiae archaeologiaeque Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi 3 (Bukarest/Braila 2008) 414 pp.
  • 'Gender and ethnicity in the early middle ages', in: Brubaker, L. and Smith, J.M.H. (eds.) Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300-900 (Cambridge 2004), pp. 23-43. Reprinted in: Noble, T.F.X. (ed.) From Roman Provinces to Medieval Kingdoms, Rewriting History (London/New York 2006), pp. 168-88
  • 'Das Papsttum und die Langobarden', in: Becher, M. and Jarnut, J. (eds.) Der Dynastiewechsel von 751. Vorgeschichte, Legitimationsstrategien und Erinnerung (Münster 2004), pp. 145-62
  • 'Migrazioni e comunicazione', in: Comunicare e significare nell’alto medioevo, Settimane di studio del Centro Italiano di Studi sull’alto medioevo 52 (Spoleto 2005), pp. 1137-64
  • 'Aux origines d’une Europe ethnique: Identités en transformation entre antiquité et moyen âge', in: Annales: Histoire, Sciences sociales 60/1 (2005), pp. 183-208
  • 'Justinian and the barbarian kingdoms', in: Maas, M. (ed.) The Age of Justinian (Cambridge 2005), pp. 448-76
  • 'Staat und Herrschaft im Frühmittelalter: Überlegungen zum Forschungsstand', in: Airlie, S. Reimitz, H. and Pohl, W. (eds.) Staat im Frühen Mittelalter, Forschungen zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 11 (Wien 2006), pp. 9-38
  • 'Varietà etnica nell’Europa meticcia dell’alto medioevo', in: Cracco, G., Le Goff, J.,  Keller, H. and Ortalli, G. (eds.) Europa in costruzione. La forza delle identità, la ricerca di unità (secoli IX-XIII) (Bologna 2006), pp. 55-72
  • 'Alienigena coniugia: Bestrebungen zu einem Verbot auswärtiger Heiraten in der Karolingerzeit', in: Pe?ar, A. and Trampedach, K. (eds.) Die Bibel als politisches Argument, Historische Zeitschrift, Beiheft 43 (München 2007), pp. 159-88
  • 'Liturgie di guerra nei regni altomedievali', in: Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo 5, 1 (2008), pp. 29-44

International Medieval Congress

Event Date: 
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 10:00 - Thu, 14/07/2011 - 18:00
Venue: 
Leeds University, Weetwood Hall/Bodington Hall
Location: 
Leeds, United Kingdom
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The International Medieval Congress (IMC) is organised and administered by the Institute for Medieval Studies (IMS). Since its start in 1994, the Congress has established itself as an annual event with an attendance of over 1,500 medievalists from all over the world. It is the largest conference of its kind in Europe.
The CMRP project will have two sessions there annually, this year mainly to present the objectives of the project.

First CMRP meeting

The first project meeting was first of all an opportunity for the participants of the project to get to know each other. Apart from that some basic organisational issues had to be talked about, especially concerning the cooperative nature of the project. (short report to be put on the website soon).

Cultural Memory and the Resources of the Past, 400 -1000 AD (CMRP)

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“Cultural memory and the resources of the past, 400 -1000 AD” is the title of a joint research project by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Universities of Utrecht, Cambridge and Leeds. It is funded by Humanties in the European Research Area (HERA), a project led by the European Science Foundation (ESF).
The project combines two elements:

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