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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 810: Normans, Normandy, and the Wider Norman World: 911 from a 2011 Perspective, IV

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 16.30-18.00

Sponsor:Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies / Haskins Society for Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Angevin & Viking History / Centre Michel de Boüard (CRAHAM - UMR 6273), Université de Caen Basse-Normandie
Organiser:Charles Insley, Department of History & American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University
Moderator/Chair:Kathryn Dutton, Department of History, University of Glasgow
Paper 810-aRewriting the Ancient Past in the 13th-Century Chronique de Normandie
(Language: English)
Greg Fedorenko, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 810-bMitochondrial Eve or England's Conjoined Twin Sister?: Normandy and Her Offspring in Anglo-Norman Historiographical Tradition
(Language: English)
Benjamin Pohl, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 810-c'But you Never Saw Anything Yet in France so Lovely as this Normandy': Antiquarians Writing 911 and the Norman Landscape
(Language: English)
Leonie V. Hicks, Department of History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University
Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Medievalism and Antiquarianism
Abstract

This panel closes the sessions commemorating the 1100th anniversary of Normandy's 'creation', and addresses historiographical issues, medieval and modern. The attitudes towards the duchy's past of Norman authors writing after 1204 are examined in the Chronique de Normandie. A broad range of narratives from the Anglo-Norman tradition are examined for evidence of the duchy's place in contemporary consciousness after the creation of the Anglo-Norman realm. Finally, English antiquarian travellers of the 18th century onwards are the focus of a paper which examines how these more recent commentators understood the formation of Normandy and how the chronicles influenced their writing.