Using the Carolingian Past in a Society of Transformation: The Case of Early Medieval Septimania/Catalonia in the Long Tenth Century (900-1050)
Matthias M. Tischler
The north-eastern region of the Iberian Peninsula, which later became medieval Catalonia, and adjacent French region, then called Septimania, formed an intermediary zone ethnic, cultural, linguistic, social, political, religious transition brokerage between Mediterranean central European worlds, interfacing with Christian north Muslim south. Consequently, double Septimania/Catalonia is ideal subject for a comparative view transformation processes in Carolingian Empire. My paper â giving interim report on ongoing research analyses how this still-underestimated periphery Empire transformed into Latin Europe late ninth middle eleventh century, through exploring its imported autochthonous manuscript production position as border society. In doing so, I show that societal circumstances favoured concerted selection, introduction implementation core results Church reform, well well-balanced adaptation to post-Roman, post-Visigothic post-Carolingian society under reconstruction. reflections allow us assess quality Â»CarolingianÂ« culture imperial, i.e. overarching, eclectic flexible concept amalgamation cultural political semantics, from peripheral rather than perspective.
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