IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 203: Narrative Texts in the Anglo-Norman World
Monday 12 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Haskins Society for Anglo-Norman, Angevin & Viking Studies |
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Organiser: | Chris Lewis, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
Moderator/Chair: | Chris Lewis, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
Paper 203-a | 'Tried and known in many places': Hereward the Wake (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
Paper 203-b | Aelred's Life of St Edward, King and Confessor (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Social History |
Paper 203-c | Recycling the Franks in 12th-Century England: Regino of Prum, the Monks of Durham, and Henry II (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Local History, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | The papers explore some lesser known narrative texts written in Anglo-Norman England and show how the views of the past which they embodied also reflected current political concerns. The session as a whole raises issues about the purposes of and audiences for narrative texts which will interest a wider audience. |