IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1118: Episcopal Historiography and Memory between Orthodoxy and Heresy
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | EPISCOPUS: Society for the Study of Episcopal Power and Culture in the Middle Ages |
|---|---|
| Organiser: | John S. Ott, Department of History, Portland State University, Oregon |
| Moderator/Chair: | Bernard Gowers, Keble College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1118-a | Christianisation and Christian Renewal in the Episcopal Historiography of the 10th and 11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 1118-b | Bishop Pelagius of Oviedo (1101-1130): Making the Royal Memory (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Decorative Arts, Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought |
| Paper 1118-c | To Be or Not To Be Regulated: Episcopal Strategies in the Face of a Rebellious Chapter in Medieval Iberia (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval |
| Abstract | Bishops have long been understood as politically and religiously central to medieval European society, the linchpins in ecclesiological visions of a unified Christendom. Until relatively recently, however, the particular concerns of episcopal historiography have been little commented on. This panel brings together three papers that explore the different facets, and the different contexts of, episcopal historiography in the central Middle Ages. In keeping with the IMC's 2009 strand on orthodoxy and heterodoxy, the papers examine how episcopal historiography both used and navigated between these categories in developing a historical consciousness and memory specific to episcopal identities across various locales in northern Europe and the Mediterranean. Examined here are episcopal narratives about Christianisation and religious discipline, ecclesiastical authority, and royal memory and self-fashioning. |