IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 525: Power & Institutions in Medieval Islam & Christendom (PIMIC), I: (Re)Writing the Past - Memory and Political Culture in East and West
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Power & Institutions in Medieval Islam & Christendom (PIMIC), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid |
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| Organiser: | Sarah Greer, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London |
| Paper 525-a | Reassessing the Past in the Primordia of Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 525-b | Arabic Biographical Dictionaries as Archives of the Scholarly Community?: Ibn ʿAsākir's History of Damascus (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 525-c | Remembering the Future: Genealogical Authority in the Carolingian World (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval |
| Abstract | This strand examines the themes of memory, historiography, and identity from a comparative perspective as part of five sessions organised by the Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom research project. It interrogates the political, social, and cultural use of history writing and the active role of authors in constructing narratives and transforming the past to renew the present. By focusing on examples of history writing from Ottonian Saxony, 12th-century Damascus and the Carolingian world, the three papers explore different expressions of institutional memory, construction of community identities and representation and renegotiation of the past across the medieval world. |