IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 736: Medieval Chronicles in the Modern World
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | School of History, University of Leeds |
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| Organiser: | Iona McCleery, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | David Green, Centre for British Studies, Harlaxton College, University of Evansville |
| Paper 736-a | Fernão Lopes in the 21st Century: A Digital Humanities Approach (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese |
| Paper 736-b | A Dynamic Duo: Approaching the Late Medieval Chronicle from Jean Froissart and Fernão Lopes (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 736-c | Using Chronicles in Teaching: How to Interpret Plague, Hunger, War, and Death in Late Medieval Narratives (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Medicine, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Abstract | Many of us use chronicles on a regular basis in our teaching but all too often we take for granted the processes of editing, translation and interpretation that take place before we can recommend an edition to our students (and make use of it in our research). This session explores some of these stages and what can be done with the results, using as inspiration the chronicles of Fernão Lopes (d.c.1459), one of the most important sources for the Hundred Years War in its Iberian theatre of conflict. All the speakers are involved in the Fernão Lopes Translation Project (funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities) which is preparing English translations of the three chronicles in four volumes (to be published by Boydell). Digital Humanities plays an important role in the project and will be one of the topics for discussion. |