IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 729: Languages of Power in Late Medieval England
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP), Université de Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne |
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| Organiser: | Christopher Fletcher, Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP - UMR 8589), Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jean-Philippe Genet, Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris (LAMOP - UMR 8589), Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| Paper 729-a | Some Keywords in Late Medieval Political Culture (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 729-b | Languages of Politics or Languages of Poetry?: Contrasting Approaches to 'Political Poetry' (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Middle English, Political Thought |
| Paper 729-c | 'Mekely Besechyng': The Language of Power, Paternity, and Patronage in 15th-Century Letters (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Mentalities, Social History |
| Abstract | Language provides an important point of departure for the study of late medieval political culture. For some years, historians have used the detailed study of particular terms to illuminate something about past mentalities and their role in politics. Until recently, however, the systematic analysis of political language seemed an impossible task - something a single researcher could hardly hope to achieve, even a team. Now modern computing power and the methods of linguistic statistics are being brought together in a European Research Council project to examine the evolution of political discourse in England and France between the 13th and the 16th century. Some members of this team present some preliminary results in this session. |