| FT-55547-08 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Cullen J. Chandler | Carolingian Catalonia: politics and culture in the Spanish March | 6/1/2008 - 7/31/2008 | $6,000.00 | Cullen | J. | Chandler | | | | Lycoming College | Williamsport | PA | 17701-5100 | USA | 2008 | Medieval Studies | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 |
I propose to finish a book manuscript already in preparation and consideration by a top academic publisher in the field, Cambridge University Press. The study examines the impact of the eighth-century conquest of Catalunya by the Franks ruled by the Carolingian dynasty. The focus is on the status of Catalonia--known as the Spanish March--during the ninth century. Specialists and students alike recognize the Carolingian period (c. 700-c. 1000) for its relatively centralized empire and its Christian-based intellectual renaissance. Thus, the central question of my project is how the frontier region operated as a province of the large European empire in terms of political networks and cultural programs. |