IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1622: Precepts and Pretexts of Medieval Historiography
Thursday 13 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, Universitetet i Bergen |
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| Organiser: | Lars Boje Mortensen, Centre for Medieval Studies, Universitetet i Bergen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Kurt Villads Jensen, Institute of History & Civilization, University of Southern Denmark, Odense |
| Paper 1622-a | Roman Past and Roman Language in 12th-Century English Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Paper 1622-b | Emotional Language of a Northern Crusade: The Intertextual Models in Henry's Chronicle of Livonia (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 1622-c | Ad bonae vitae institutum: The Ends and Means of the Historical Works of William of Malmesbury (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Monasticism, Theology |
| Abstract | This session will explore historical writing in the 12th and 13th centuries, emphasising the contemporary constraints and influences on how the past was recorded. Two papers will focus on Anglo-Norman historiography of the 12th century. One will investigate the influence exercised by the classical tradition, while the other studies the work of William of Malmesbury in the context of distinctively monastic aims. The third paper inspects the emotional language of Henry of Livonia, the 13th-century chronicler of the northern crusades. The geographical distribution of sources thus reflects the emphasis on centre and periphery characterising the sponsoring Centre for Medieval Studies. |