IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 409: The Learned Clerk, I: A Round Table Discussion
Monday 4 July 2016, 19.00-20.00
| Sponsor: | Learned Clerk Working Group |
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| Organisers: | James G. Clark, Department of History, University of Exeter Sylvia A. Federico, Department of English, Bates College, Lewiston |
| Moderator/Chair: | W. Mark Ormrod, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Abstract | This is one of two companion panels organised by the Learned Clerk Working Group. We seek to further the conversation started at the Learned Clerk Symposium in July 2015 at Bates on how we might re-envision late medieval textual structures and strategies through a focus on the manuscript practices of the learned clerk in 14th-century England. Rather than a study of historiographical versus literary narrative, the panel aims to bring back into contact these discursive modes (and subsequent fields of inquiry) through an examination of their convergence in the work of clerks in several crucial aspects of late medieval life. How did clerks structure themselves and their topics through narrative? How did clerical narrative shape events and thought? Participants include James G. Clark (University of Exeter), Bernhard Hollick (Universität zu Köln / University of Exeter), Linne R. Mooney (University of York), Daniel Orton (University of Oxford), Thomas Pettitt (Syddansk Universitet), and Fiona Somerset (University of Conneticut). |