IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 724: Medievalisms of Empire
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's College London |
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Organiser: | James Smith, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (CMEMS), University of Western Australia |
Moderator/Chair: | Kathryn Maude, Department of English, King's College London |
Paper 724-a | Philology and Fantasies of Race and Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Mentalities |
Paper 724-b | Le morte d'Alexandre and the Consequences for Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Literacy and Orality, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Monasticism |
Paper 724-c | Robert E. Howard and the Pseudo-Medieval, Pseudo-History of Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Mentalities |
Abstract | The core goal of this session is the exploration of modes by which empire is shaped and destabilised through medievalism, and the extent to which salient legacies of empire in the form of political entities, cultures, traditions, and languages seek to shape the future through evocation of the medieval past. The three papers focus on medievalisms clustering around the creation, fashioning, and reinforcement of empire together with the recuperation of identities that follows the decline or dissolution of empire. Further, they consider the afterlife of these constructs within the refashioning of the imagined middle ages created through the memory of empire. |