IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 1729: Reform(ed) Narratives: Reform Ideology and Historical Writing during the Central Middle Ages
Thursday 9 July 2015, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Religion & Society in the Early & Central Middle Ages (ReSoMA) / Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Gent |
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Organiser: | Benjamin Pohl, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
Moderator/Chair: | Stephen Church, School of History, University of East Anglia |
Paper 1729-a | Easily Corrupted Novelties: Matthew Paris on Monastic Reform (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Religious Life |
Paper 1729-b | Fabricating History: Making the Battle Abbey Chronicle (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1729-c | Symeon of Durham's Monks: Shaping a Monastic Past at Durham Cathedral Priory, 1083 - c. 1130 (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session explores the ways in which reform agendas influenced and changed the production of historical writings during the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries. It combines papers on key writers/sources from these periods, including Symeon of Durham, Matthew Paris and the Battle Abbey Chronicle. Together, these studies will enable us to scrutinise the relationship between monastic reform and literary production on both a textual level and with regard to the surviving manuscript evidence. |