IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1118: Writing the World: Textual Authority and Medieval Society
Wednesday 16 July 2003, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
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Organiser: | Robert A. Rouse, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Nottingham |
Moderator/Chair: | Paul R. Dryburgh, ISMA Centre, University of Reading |
Paper 1118-a | Chaucer Writing London in the 1380's (Language: English) |
Paper 1118-b | Books and Bones: Medieval Historiography and Arthurian Discovery in the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French/ Occitan |
Paper 1118-c | Textual Geography: Writing England in Medieval Romance (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Middle English, Literacy and Orality, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Abstract | This session considers the uses to which the power of textual authority is put in medieval society. Weaving together three different manifestations of the use of textual authority in the Middle Ages this session seeks to draw attention to the numerous ways in which textual authority was created and changed through the interaction of texts with the world of the 'real'. In particular the session examines the question of the invention of imaginary histories for the purpose of authorising certain intellectual or historigraphical positions. |