IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 1210: Texts and Identities, III: Organising Knowledge and Constructing Communities
Wednesday 3 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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Organisers: | E. T. Dailey, School of History, University of Leeds Gerda Heydemann, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien |
Moderator/Chair: | Rosamond McKitterick, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge |
Paper 1210-a | Authority and Community in Bavarian Canonical Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Mentalities |
Paper 1210-b | The Other Approach: Glossaries as a Record of Medieval Information Management (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities |
Paper 1210-c | Of Audience, Actors, and Letters: A Methodological Approach on the Variae of Cassiodorus (Language: English) |
Abstract | This session applies new approaches to the legal and other normative texts produced during the Early Middle Ages, with a view to processes of organising knowledge and their impact on social values and practices. Sven Meeder approaches the compilation of canonical texts in Carolingian Bavaria as vital to the creation of social norms themselves, re-evaluating the presence of quotations from biblical or patristic sources within these texts. Rather than see such quotations merely as evidence of their authoritative quality, Meeder reframes the discussion in terms of 'imagined communities' engaged in a discourse through which values are established and communicated. Evina Steinova traces the practice of arranging and re-ordering textual knowledge in another type of normative source material. She looks at medieval glossaries from the perspective of information management, i.e. As a source for the reception of classical texts and the practice of learning in the early Middle Ages. |