IMC 2004: Sessions

Session 1609: The Durham Liber Vitae: The Making and Remaking of a Commemorative Record, 850-1540

Sponsor:	Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, University of London / AHRB Centre for North-East England History
Organiser:	David Rollason, AHRB Centre for North-East England History, University of Durham
Moderator/Chair:	Alan J. Piper, University Library, Durham University
Paper 1609-a	The Durham Liber Vitae and Anglo-Saxon Memorial Texts (Language: English) Jan Gerchow, Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen Index terms: Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History, Genealogy and Prosopography, Lay Piety
Paper 1609-b	Taking Directions from the Münster School: The Durham Liber Vitae in the Early and Central Middle Ages (Language: English) Andrew Wareham, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London Index terms: Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History, Genealogy and Prosopography, Lay Piety
Paper 1609-c	The Durham Liber Vitae: Just One Aspect of Durham's Commemorative Tradition after 1300 (Language: English) Lynda Rollason, Department of History, Durham University Index terms: Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History, Genealogy and Prosopography, Lay Piety
Abstract	These sessions will present and explore the uses of the English memorial texts for historians, palaeographers, philologists and all those with an interest in the connections between the commemoration of the dead and lay and monastic piety in the Middle Ages. The session will bring together experts in memorial texts, humanities computing ans the connection between England and the continent.