IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 111: Public Opinion, Debate, and the Medieval Public Sphere, I, 800-1500
Monday 3 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Leidulf Melve, Department for Archeology, History, Cultural Studies & Religion, Universitetet i Bergen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Irene van Renswoude, Huygens ING, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam / Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Paper 111-a | Public Opinion as a Threat in Carolingian Times (Language: English) Index terms: Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Literacy and Orality, Rhetoric |
| Paper 111-b | Reflections on Public Opinion and Public Debate: From the Carolingian Period to the Investiture Contest (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Literacy and Orality, Rhetoric |
| Paper 111-c | Historical Writing as Propaganda during the Investiture Contest (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Literacy and Orality, Rhetoric |
| Abstract | The sessions will investigate the relationship between the formation of public opinion and the emergence of public debate at different social and institutional junctures. Questions relating to forms of communication and networks will be of importance, but also the relationship between types of public opinion and the specific forms of arguments brought forward by the participants. The range of case studies, covering the period 800-1500, will enable us to put forward tentative conclusions relating to the characteristic features of the medieval public sphere. |