IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 1521: Language, Form and Forgery in Communal History
Thursday 17 July 2003, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Jason K. Glenn, Department of History, University of Southern California |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jason K. Glenn, Department of History, University of Southern California |
Paper 1521-a | Literary Opportunism in a Pisan Vernacular Chronicle (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Italian, Local History, Social History |
Paper 1521-b | Historical Fabrication at 11th-Century Christ Church, Canterbury (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
Paper 1521-c | What is Poetry?: The 'Rythmical Prose' of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and its Literary-Historical Context (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
Abstract | This interdisciplinary session will explore some of the social and political implications surrounding the often-unconventional choices of both form and content for writers of communal histories. For example, why did some historians choose to write in the vernacular rather than in Latin, or in verse rather than in prose? Why did some fabricate histories entirely? In particular, we will discuss how these deviations from standard historiography offer insight into the medieval world of the texts' creation, and consider how they might illuminate our understanding of the relationship between history, ideology and texuality. |