IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1211: The Reception and Use of Texts and Ideas, 500-1300
Wednesday 11 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Jesse Miika Johannes Keskiaho, Department of History, University of Helsinki |
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Moderator/Chair: | Kurt Villads Jensen, Institute of History & Civilization, University of Southern Denmark, Odense |
Paper 1211-a | The Transmission and Use of Normative Views on Dreams in the Early Middle Ages, c. 500-900 (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Hagiography, Religious Life |
Paper 1211-b | Remembering the Abbots of Farfa: The Transmission of Monastic Memory in Central Italian Monastic Historiography (11th-12th Centuries) (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism |
Paper 1211-c | Reading Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th and 13th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | Through three case studies the session approaches the reception and implementation of texts and ideas in the Middle Ages. Examining a variety of texts in different historical situations, the papers consider the ways past ideas and texts, whether from Antiquity or the earlier Middle Ages, were transmitted, and how this may have changed their possible meanings. Did the medieval readers engage in discussions with the texts of the past, and did such discussions change the meaning or perceived nature of the texts received and reused? Interest also focuses on the kinds of use the texts and ideas of the past were put to, and their roles in these actions. |