Akkulturation

The process of political unification of large areas of Central and Western Europe by the Franks and the multiplicity of further imperial formations brought together different languages, institutions and traditions, which influenced each other. In their papers, linguists, historians and archaeologists from different countries examine the sustained processes of synthesis for European culture in the late Classical Age and Early Middle Ages, which they characterise as being of long duration, multi-layered and diverse.

Dieter Hägermann is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Bremen, Germany, and since 1973 has been a freelance collaborator on the Monumenta Germaniae Historica.

Wolfgang Haubrichs is Professor of Language History and German Literature of the Middle Ages at the University of the Saar, Germany; he is co-founder and co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik and editor of the Wolfram-Studien.

Jörg Jarnut is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Paderborn, Germanyand one of the three founding directors of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research into the Middle Ages and their Influence (IEMAN) located at that university.