IMC 2005: Sessions

Session 1302: Rendering the Past: Medieval Historiography and Self-Reflexivity

Sponsor:	Department of English, Universität Bern
Organiser:	Nicole Nyffenegger, Institut für Englische Sprachen & Literaturen, Universität Bern
Moderator/Chair:	Marigold Anne Norbye, Department of History, University College London
Paper 1302-a	The Poet as Historian in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Societies (Language: English) María Cruz Expósito González, Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana, Universidad de La Laguna Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 1302-b	'An Eternal Memory to All People': Didactic Aims in Konrad Justinger's Bernese Chronicle (Language: English) Kathrin Jost, Institut für Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung, Universität Bern Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - German, Local History, Rhetoric
Paper 1302-c	Finding their 'Selves' in Middle English?: English Historiographers around 1350 (Language: English) Nicole Nyffenegger, Institut für Englische Sprachen & Literaturen, Universität Bern Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Middle English, Rhetoric
Abstract	How do Medieval Historiographers reflect upon their own role in 'rendering the past'? The three papers of this session discuss these questions from a variety of different angles, across space (chroniclers from Berne, Osnabrück and England) as well as time (14th to 16th century).