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XII International Medieval Meeting (Lleida, 5-7 de junio de 2024)

Welcome to the 12 th International Medieval Meeting Lleida which will take place between the 5 th and 7 th of June 2024. During the Middle Ages, government is a game of negotiation between power holders. Concepts such as the common good, power of the people, conciliarism, universities, and double rule (mere and mixed empire) were used in an era when negotiation, justifying speeches, and ostentation (at different levels and social strata) ended up imposing themselves. The sovereign had to deal with certain collectives by claiming that he spoke on their behalf. Thus, contractual monarchy and representativeness were key contributions of the Middle Ages. The evidence of these realities can be found in art, literature, archaeology, and documentation… The researcher only needs to examine them. The International Medieval Meeting Lleida invites all attendants to take an interdisciplinary approach to explore this important point in history. Simultaneously, and thereby reaffirming its importance as a meeting point for young and established medievalists, the 12 th International Medieval Meeting Lleida offers a further 16 thematic strands to update and share our medieval studies, attending the different lines of research, methodologies and ways of diffusion:

Reform and Renewal in Carolingian Trier: A Prosopographical Study

Preliminary PhD thesis proposal submitted to the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, Ottawa University. The proposed research focuses on the ecclesiastical province of Trier (Trier, Metz, Toul, and Verdun). The study will examine the lives of the higher clergy in the period 768 until 869. This is a time period that corresponds to the creation of the province by Charlemagne until its dissolution following the death of Lothar II.

Ragnar and Bern, from Wulpen to Bonen-Boulogne. Two ninth-century monarchs in early Flanders.

This article describes two persons and their environment in the struggle for power between pagans and christians in the Schelde basin and surroundings. Leaders were found on the side of the Franks and the prelates (bishops, missionaries, abbots...) but also on the side of the long-dwelling pagans. There were chieftains, gau-counts, waldheren (chosen lords) representatives, governors, princes, warlords, etc. These battles also occurred more than once within the families, because some converted to belong to the new power, while others preferred to remain faithful to their roots. From Brugge to the coast there were salt marshes and gullies with mudflats and sandy banks. The area became economically more interesting from the eighth century because sheep were bred there. Salt and peat were also extracted. As early as the seventh century, but especially in the eighth and ninth centuries, large landownership became important.

The imperial abbey of Ellwangen and its peasants: a study of the polyptych of 1337

Agricultural History Review, 62, 2 (2014): 187-209, 2015

This paper presents an analysis of Ellwangen Abbey’s polyptych of 1337, with a view to understanding better the nature of the south German rural economy in this period. It is generally accepted that in England by this point, rural society was highly commercialised, despite (or because of) the survival, at least formally, of the manorial system. In contrast, there was little direct management of demesne lands in much of Germany by this point, but the evidence suggests that rural society was, here as well, heavily commercialised. Although this paper is an analysis of only one source for one micro-region, its results suggest that the situation in England might have been less exceptional than is often supposed, and the final section of this paper makes some further suggestions regarding the implications of this point. The article also intends to provide a comparandum from another region for scholars of rural history who cannot access German sources and scholarship, and serves as an invitation to further comparative research on the agrarian history of the later middle ages.

Quedlinburg before the Ottonian kings: Approaches towards an early topography of power

Quedlinburg in the north-eastern foreland of the Harz Mountains is a small town with a great history: the tranquil little town situated in the Bode Valley was, as imperial seat and abbey, one of the central sites of the Ottonian kingdom in the 10th and 11th centuries. The conferment of market rights on abbey in 994 through Otto III was a crucial factor for its later development into a town. Quedlinburg’s early period and with it possible reasons for the establishment of an Ottonian centre of power there are still shrouded in mystery to a large extent. To contribute to the answer to the question “Why Quedlinburg?” the author would like to refer to several features of the place in pre-Ottonian times which, as reflected in the archaeological sources of the 5th/6th to 8th/9th centuries, become available from the surrounding area and the earlier tradition to the find sites. They reveal constellations which may have played a role in the process of fixing the Ottonians to this spot.