Laury Sarti

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Laury Sarti (* 1979 ) is a Luxembourg mediaevalist .

Life

Laury Sarti studied history and classical archeology at the University of Luxembourg , the Université Saint-Louis in Brussels, the Free University of Berlin and the University of Hamburg . In 2013 she received her doctorate from Hans-Werner Goetz with a thesis on the importance of war and the military as a factor of change at the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages. From 2013 to 2017 she worked at the Free University of Berlin in the Department of History of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages as a research assistant to Stefan Esders . Since 2016 she has been leading the Militarization of Early Medieval Societies project, which the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation acquired together with Stefan Esders . Since 2017 she has been an academic adviser at the history seminar of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . In addition to her research on the military in the Franconian Empire , Italy and England , she deals with the question of the importance of the Byzantine Empire for the medieval West.

In her dissertation , Sarti examined the perception of war and the values ​​of those who waged war in Gaul at the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages and shows that the continuous confrontation with war and violence was an essential factor in the development of 'medieval' social structures. In the context of the Transformation of the Roman World project funded by the European Science Foundation , war was not considered as a factor of change. Further research by Sarti uses term analysis to reveal social changes. So she has z. For example, a change in the meaning of the term miles (soldier / knight) between the early 6th and early 8th centuries was revealed, a word that only referred to prison guards in Merovingian Gaul. Sarti connects this finding with the end of the Roman military system, she interprets the renewed use of the term as a name for the warrior in the context of the increasing professionalization of the Carolingian army.

Further studies deal with the terms Romanus and Graecus and trace a process of alienation between the Frankish West and the Byzantine Empire , in the course of which the Franks turned away from the Byzantines and turned to the Pope . Similar to papal Italy, Romanus named the Pope and the Christian-Catholic faith in the Frankish sources since the 8th century. The Frankish imperial title imperator Romanum gubernans imperium thus referred less to historical models than to the Christian faith.

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  1. ↑ Militarization of early medieval societies. Manifestations, Regulation and Perception in a Western European Comparison , Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin
  2. ^ L. Sarti: Perceiving War and the Military in Early Christian Gaul (400-700) (= Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, Vol. 22). Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2013
  3. ↑ L. Sarti: The Franconian miles : neither soldier nor knight , in early medieval studies 52.1 (2018), 99–117
  4. ↑ C. Gantner: The label 'Greeks' in the papal diplomatic repertoire in the eighth century , in: Pohl W. and G. Heydemann (eds.), Strategies of Identification , Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 13 ( Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), 303-349
  5. ↑ L. Sarti: Frankish Roman Ness and Charlemagne's Empire , Speculum 91.4 (2016), 1040-1058; From Romanus to Graecus . The identity and perceptions of the Byzantines in the Frankish West , Journal of Medieval History 44.2 (2018), 131-150
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SURNAME Sarti, Laury
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg Medievalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1979