IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 731: History and Historians in the Anglo-Norman Realm
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies / Haskins Society for Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Angevin & Viking History |
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Organiser: | Charlie Rozier, Durham University Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies |
Moderator/Chair: | Chris Lewis, Institute of Historical Research, University of London / Department of History, King's College London |
Paper 731-a | The Writing of the Worcester Chronicon ex chronicis (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 731-b | Squalid Lives and Dreadful Deaths: The Demise of the Monarch in the Historia Ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 731-c | The Cantor-Historians of the Anglo-Norman 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
Abstract | The Anglo-Norman period (c.1050-c.1154) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of historical studies, both in England and Normandy. More historical texts were copied and composed in these years than in any other preceding hundred-year period. Annals, chronicles, hagiographical texts, and narratives histories were added to library collections throughout the Anglo-Norman world. This session explores aspects of this movement. Papers analyse the commission and compilation of historical texts, aspects of their intended uses and purposes, and the working lives and wider careers of historical authors active at this time. |