IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 301: Constructing Anglo-Saxon England in the 12th Century
Monday 11 July 2005, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Group for Research into English Manuscripts in the 12th Century |
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| Organisers: | Mary Swan, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Elaine Treharne, Department of English, University of Leicester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Mary Swan, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 301-a | Perambulating the Past: 12th-Century Perceptions of Pre-Danish Peterborough (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Religious Life |
| Paper 301-b | Local Texts and Latin Texts: A Fresh Look at the Peterborough Chronicle (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Local History, Religious Life |
| Paper 301-c | Writing the Reform: Post-Conquest Interpretations of Dunstan and the 10th-Century Benedictine Revival (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The three papers in this session all represent exciting new work that insists on a reinterpretation of long accepted facts about Anglo-Saxon England and the representation of that society by authors in the post-conquest period. Focusing on monastic culture and its historical self-referentiality, all three speakers will analyse and reappraise textual materials produced in the twelfth century that seek to create a particular set of 'truths' - about the tenth century Benedictine reform, about the seventh-century foundation of Peterborough Cathedral, and about the transmission of pre-Conquest monastic history in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest. |