IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1511: Did Christianity Always Win?: The Migration and Interaction of Ideas in England, c.800-c.1100
Thursday 15 July 2010, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
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| Organiser: | Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Moderator/Chair: | Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading |
| Paper 1511-a | Ritual Action from the Home to the Grave: An Archaeological Approach to the Anglo-Saxon Worldview (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Religious Life |
| Paper 1511-b | Classical Time and Christian Timelessness?: An Analysis of the Anglo-Saxon Calendar (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1511-c | 'Saracen Science' and the Anglo-Norman Worldview (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Science |
| Abstract | Travel and the migration of ideas were closely intertwined. This session focuses on England, in the period from the Viking settlements to the Norman Conquest, in order to build up a model of how 'new' ideas were received. The first paper uses archaeological evidence from both graves and domestic settlements to argue for a holistic approach to understanding changes in the Anglo-Saxon worldview. The second paper analyses Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical calendars, and assesses their reconciliation of pagan and Christian structures of time. The last paper looks at the scholarship of Adelard of Bath as a case study in the post-Conquest assimilation of 'saracen' ideas about the natural world. |