IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 607: Gesta, Inventiones, and Specula Principum: Literary Models in Historiographical Sources of 11th and 12th-Century Europe
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
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| Organiser: | Steffen Magister, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Conor Kostick, School of Histories & Humanities, Trinity College Dublin |
| Paper 607-a | The Inventio of the Holy Lance at Antioch during the First Crusade, 1096-1099 (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 607-b | Odo of Deuil and the Tunic of Christ: From Inventiones to Historical Invention (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life |
| Paper 607-c | Paternas Virtutes Velut in Speculo Imaginari: Wipo's Gesta Chuonradi II Imperatoris and the Mirrors of Princes (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought |
| Abstract | This session will explore the influence of various literary models on a number of continental European narrative sources. The Inventio tradition will be the focal point of two papers, one examining a little-known 12th-century text by Odo of Deuil on the discovery of the tunic of Christ, and the other discussing the accounts of the discovery of the Holy Lance at Antioch during the First Crusade. The third paper will look at how Wipo's Gesta Chuonradi II imperatoris conveys ideas of kingship by using elements of the specula principum. |