IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1011: England and Rome in the Central Middle Ages

Organiser:	Gianluca Raccagni, Independent Scholar, Cambridge
Moderator/Chair:	Margaret Harvey, Department of History, Durham University
Paper 1011-a	The Perils and Burdens of Travelling to Rome: Episcopal Autonomy and Opposition to Gregorian Ideas in Early 12th-Century England (Language: English) Francesco Paolo Terlizzi, University of Bologna Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Political Thought, Religious Life, Theology
Paper 1011-b	'I met a traveller from an antique land': Encounters with Antiquity in the Writings of John of Salisbury (Language: English) Irene A. O'Daly, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge / Trinity College, Dublin Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Political Thought
Abstract	The session examines the contacts between England and Rome in the 12th and 13th centuries by looking at the power politics and dissemination of religious ideas linked to the travels to Rome, by studying the treatment of material antiquity in John of Salisbury's travel accounts (focusing on two case studies: the alleged destruction of the Palatine Library by Gregory the Great and the statue collection by Henry of Winchester), and by exploring and setting within the broader context of cultural transmission, exchange of ideas and identity definition, the artistic exports from England to Rome in the 13th century.