IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1106: Matthew Paris: New Perspectives
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Centre for Research in Historiography & Historical Culture, Aberystwyth University |
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Organiser: | Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
Moderator/Chair: | Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
Paper 1106-a | Reading the Becket Leaves and Matthew Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
Paper 1106-b | Didactical Methods Used by Matthew Paris in the Chronica maiora (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Historiography - Medieval |
Paper 1106-c | St Albans Abbey and the Crown in the Age of Matthew Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism |
Paper 1106-d | Issues of Law in the Chronicles of Matthew Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Law |
Abstract | Matthew Paris (fl. 1235-59) was one of the outstanding writers of history in the central Middle Ages, and an essential source for our understanding not only of English history, but that of Latin Christendom as a whole. Yet it has been more than 50 years since the last comprehensive study of Matthew's worldview, the method and context of his writing of history, had been published. This session will present recent approaches to Matthew Paris, and will sketch future lines of enquiry and questions of research. It will thus shed new light on one of the most significant witnesses for the intellectual, cultural, religious, political, and social history in a pivotal period of medieval European history. |