Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Session 60—1:30 PM in Valley I, Room 105
Carolingian and Ottonian Continuity I

Paper 1: Charles R. Bowlus, Arkansas-Little Rock
"The Carolingians and the Origins of Medieval Germany"

Paper 2: Bernard Bachrach, Minnesota-Twin Cities
"Early Saxon Military Organization on the Western Frontier: Continuity or Revolutionary Change?"

Paper 3: David Bachrach, University of New Hampshire
"The Ottonian Fisc: Financial Administration in a Carolingian Successor State"

Respondent: Jonathan Lyon, University of Chicago

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Session 124—3:30 PM in Fetzer 2030
Carolingian and Ottonian Continuity II

Paper 1: Karen Blough, SUNY-Plattsburgh
"Fit for a King: Carolingian and Ottonian Display Strategies"

Paper 2: Eva-Maria Butz, University of Dortmund
"Change and Continuity: The Liturgical Commemoration of the King in Carolingian Tradition at the Dawn of the Ottonian Empire"

Paper 3: Gabriella R. Miyamoto, Rutgers University
"The Ambo of Henry II in the Aachen Palatine Chapel: The Use of Multivalent Imagery to Express Divine and Temporal Legitimization"

Respondent: Eliza Garrison, Middlebury College