IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 701: Forging the National History
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Studies in Medievalism |
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| Organiser: | Alfred Hiatt, School of English, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Tom Shippey, Department of English, Saint Louis University, Missouri |
| Paper 701-a | Forging the British Empire: Anglo-Saxon Charters and their Early Modern Readers (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 701-b | Hickes v. Mabillon: Anglo-Saxon Forgeries and the Diplomatic Art (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 701-c | Rheingold's Heirs: Karl Simrock's Translation of Norse Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | The purpose of this session is to address the connection between medievalism and national histories. Papers will examine in particular the study of medieval documents and literary texts as a means of constructing European national(ist) identities from the16th to the 19th centuries. |