IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1124: Cultural Memory, II: Transmission of Texts in a Transcultural Perspective

Wednesday 13 July 2011, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	HERA Project: Cultural Memory & the Resources of the Past (CMRP)
Organiser:	Clemens Gantner, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien
Moderator/Chair:	Rosamond McKitterick, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge
Paper 1124-a	The Popes as Cultural Brokers in the 8th Century (Language: English) Clemens Gantner, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Political Thought
Paper 1124-b	Roman History East and West: The Universal Chronicle of Freculf of Lisieux in Comparative Perspective (Language: English) Graeme Ward, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought
Paper 1124-c	The Transmission and Translation of Ecclesiastical History: The Historia Tripartita of Epiphanius-Cassiodorus (Language: English) Désirée Scholten, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1124-d	The Politics of Selection: The Compiler of the Collectio 400 Capitulorum and His Sources (Language: English) Sven Meeder, Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Cultuur (OGC), Universiteit Utrecht Index terms: Canon Law, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Abstract	'Cultural memory and the resources of the past, 400-1000 AD' is the title of a joint research project by the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Universities of Utrecht, Cambridge and Leeds. It is funded by Humanties in the European Research Area (HERA), a project led by the European Science Foundation (ESF). The project combines two elements: on the one hand, the careful analysis of the transmission of texts and manuscripts; on the other, the problem of identity formation, including perceptions of difference on the part of specific social, political and religious communities. It has started in 2010, and the two sessions entitled 'cultural memory' are the first presentation of ongoing research. The second session will highlight various case studies of the transmission of texts and manuscripts in the Carolingian period, and the uses of the past they can show.