IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1009: Hincmar's 9th Century, I: The History of Hincmar
Wednesday 11 July 2012, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Rachel Stone, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge / Department of History, King's College London Charles West, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Charles West, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
| Paper 1009-a | The Bearing of Hincmar's Life on His Historical Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1009-b | Hincmar's Vita Remigii: History of the Diffusion and Reception (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1009-c | Hero or Villain?: Master Narratives of Archbishop Hincmar in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Abstract | Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims (845-882) is a central figure for historians of early medieval Francia and to a great degree shapes our vision of the later Carolingian empire. In his own time, however, he was a highly controversial figure. Our series of sessions on him starts with a paper which explores the connections between Hincmar's life and his own historical writings, and then two papers which move forward in time to show how his accounts of events and his own personal history have influenced historians ever since. |