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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
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)
Joanna Huntington, Lincoln School of Humanities & Performing Arts, University of Lincoln
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 203-bAelred's Life of St Edward, King and Confessor
(Language: English)
Francesco Marzella, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Firenze
Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Social History
Paper 203-cRecycling the Franks in 12th-Century England: Regino of Prum, the Monks of Durham, and Henry II
(Language: English)
Simon MacLean, Department of History, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
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.