IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 1620: Medieval Texts in the Early Modern Era: Perception and Reception
Thursday 15 July 2004, 11.15-12.45
Organisers: | Julia Crick, Department of History, University of Exeter Sarah M. Hamilton, Department of History, University of Exeter |
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Moderator/Chair: | Sarah M. Hamilton, Department of History, University of Exeter |
Paper 1620-a | The Norman Conquest of Virginia (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Law, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 1620-b | Monuments of Empire?: Pre-Conquest Charters and Early Modern Readers (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Paper 1620-c | A 14th-Century Sermon 'Founde out Hyd in a Wall': The Afterlife of a Medieval Text in Early Modern England (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Sermons and Preaching |
Abstract | This session interprets the theme 'clash of cultures' temporally, by taking a series of medieval texts and translating them to the early modern period, viewing their reception in cultural circumstances radically different from those in which they were originally produced. Bruce O'Brien considers the antiquarian interests of early colonists of Virginia; Julia Crick explores the evidence for the harnessing of pre-Conquest charters in political argument in post-Reformation England; Alexandra Walsham looks at the post-Reformation use of a much-printed sermon attributed to Thomas Wimbledon. |