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 |
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Organiser: | Charles Insley, Department of History & American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University |
Moderator/Chair: | Kathryn Dutton, Department of History, University of Glasgow |
Paper 810-a | Rewriting the Ancient Past in the 13th-Century Chronique de Normandie (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 810-b | Mitochondrial Eve or England's Conjoined Twin Sister?: Normandy and Her Offspring in Anglo-Norman Historiographical Tradition (Language: English) 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) 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. |