IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 225: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Medieval Grand Narrative, I: The Marriage of Theory and Praxis
Monday 13 July 2009, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Michael Kulikowski, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Carol Symes, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Paper 225-a | Doomed Window-Shopping in Late Antique Gaul: Thoughts on the Literary Study of Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Comparative, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Rhetoric |
Paper 225-b | The Uses of the Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Comparative |
Paper 225-c | Dialogue, Interlocution, or Just Plain Cultural History?: What (If Anything) Do We Mean by 'Interdisciplinarity'? (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
Abstract | One of a pair of sessions devoted to exploring the implications of postmodern critical theory for medieval studies and, more specifically, its impact on medieval history - and part of a larger series to be featured at the meetings of the American Historical Association and the Medieval Academy of America in 2009. How have medieval metanarratives been built up in response to modern agendas? To what extent is our work still embedded in grand narratives inherited from the past? How, methodologically, can we advance into the future, using both our newfound theoretical awareness of textual mediation, on the one hand, and the scholarly paradigms of our venerable disciplines on the other? |