CulturalMemoryandtheResourcesofthepast

OTHERNESS IN THE FRANKISH AND OTTONIAN WORLDS
Principal Investigator: Ian Wood

The Leeds project consists of two related doctoral sub-projects dealing with the construction of 'otherness' in the Frankish and Ottonian worlds, extending into the Salian period for comparison. In considering alien societies that existed beyond their eastern frontier the Franks drew both on Roman ethnography (as available in historical narratives and in cosmographical works) and (increasingly) on Biblical and eschatological texts. The development of the vision of these eastern peoples, and how that vision was affected by changing information (whether influenced by immediate events or actual observation, or derived from texts, whether Roman or patristic) are the subject of these two sub-projects.

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Sub-Projects:

Defining the other in the Merovingian and early Carolingian Periods
(Richard Broome)

Missionaries and changing views of the other from the ninth to twelfth centuries
(Timothy Barnwell)