IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1002: Melrose Abbey and the Margins of Religious Memory
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | AHRC Project 'The Breaking of Britain', Universities of Glasgow, Lancaster, Edinburgh & King's College London |
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| Organiser: | Dauvit Broun, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow |
| Moderator/Chair: | Matthew H. Hammond, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh |
| Paper 1002-a | Memoria dignum: Memory, Record, and Literary Culture at Melrose Abbey (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Lay Piety, Mentalities |
| Paper 1002-b | Recovering the Life of St Waldef, Abbot of Melrose (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism |
| Paper 1002-c | English Bishops in the Chronicle of Melrose in the mid-13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities |
| Abstract | This session explores the different ways in which the past in and/or of Melrose Abbey, within living memory, was recorded in forms that were often fragile or ambiguous.The first paper looks at the creation and reuse of short narratives of miraculous events which betray anxieties about recording such material. The second focusses on the tenuous survival of a Life of an abbot of Melrose whose cult was initially discouraged in Melrose itself. The third looks at items in the Chronicle of Melrose which, despite being standard chronicle material, were not intended to be read as part of the main text, or were treated with extraordinary chronological indifference. |