IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1615: Creating Otherness: Was There an Interest in Foreigners?
Thursday 6 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Isabelle Chwalka, Historisches Seminar, Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ludger Körntgen, Historisches Seminar, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| Paper 1615-a | A View from the Outside: Image and Perception of Byzantium in the Writings of the Frankish Clergy (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 1615-b | Arrogant and Neglecting God: Strategies of Legitimisation in German Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Historiography in the Middle Ages was most of the time limited to a nation, a monastery, or a family. Even if the historiographer wrote a world chronicle, the focus of the author was mostly narrowed writing about his own time. Despite these constrictions there are - due to the open concept of otherness - many different descriptions of others. This session asks why and when others were interesting for the writers and if there were common methods to write about others. |