IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1502: Visualising History in Medieval Manuscripts
Thursday 6 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | JRRI: John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester |
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| Organiser: | Jessica Coatesworth, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Andrea Worm, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
| Paper 1502-a | Figuring History: Schematic Diagrams in the Margins of Peter Comestor's Historia Scholastica (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1502-b | Between the Polychronicon and the Chronica Maiora: The Presentation of English Historical Writing in the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
| Paper 1502-c | Why Were Histories Illuminated in the Anglo-Norman World? (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Charters and Diplomatics, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | History manuscripts have long been mined for information and insights into contemporary medieval life and events. Yet what is not often considered is how this information is presented on the page and how this affects our understanding of the manuscript as a whole. This session will explore new methodologies in manuscript studies. It will look at the ways in which visual and diagrammatic approaches to history recording shaped the information, reception, and dissemination of historiographical manuscripts and, ultimately, offer further insight into the production of history in the late Middle Ages. |