IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 528: Conceptions of the Past, I: Medieval Historiographic Writing between Reform and Renewal
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Literature, University of York & Syddansk Universitet, Odense |
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| Organiser: | Claudia Wittig, Centre for Medieval Literature, Syddansk Universitet, Odense |
| Moderator/Chair: | Chris Lewis, Institute of Historical Research, University of London / Department of History, King's College London |
| Paper 528-a | Sourcing Language: Translation and the Production of Identity in Anglo-Norman Histories (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 528-b | New Perspectives on the Empire: Notions of Translatio and Renovatio Imperii in High Medieval Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought |
| Paper 528-c | Writing History in an Expanded World: Forms and Developments of Late Medieval World History Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
| Abstract | Historiographic writing provides crucial information about the perspective of the authors on their own time and institutions within the continuum of history. Transformations in the practices of history writing during the high Middle Ages provide information about reforms and renewal in the conceptions of the past. The session will deal with developments in representations of the past that occur when the historiography enters other languages (from Latin to French), when new perspectives on the notion of empire arise during the 12th century, and when new spatial perspectives renew the perception of history. |