IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1125: 'Once upon a time…': Veiled Memories and Vanished Powers
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Rikkyo University, Tokyo / Universität Basel |
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| Organisers: | Jessika Nowak, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Minoru Ozawa, College of Arts, Rikkyo University, Tokyo |
| Moderator/Chair: | Andreas Karg, Abteilung 'Forschung & Nachwuchs', Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main |
| Paper 1125-a | Commemoration Strategy of the Jelling Dynasty in the 10th and 11th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Law, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1125-b | The Saxons (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 1125-c | Gone and Forgotten?: The damnatio memoriae of the Kingdom of Burgundy (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Historiography - Medieval, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1125-d | Created to Be Conquered: Gerald of Wales's Construction of a Foundational Myth for Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
| Abstract | Kingdoms as well as other reigns and powers might arise, flourish and expand, and - as far as we have learned by empiric observation - descend and perish. Some might be gone and forgotten, but others will be quite present in posterior discourses. Which criteria and parameters made one kingdom more attractive as a reference point than the other? Why did some reigns and powers succumb and vanish into thin air while others were glorified by the posterity? And which role did memory play during the different reigns? This session aims at shedding light on the mysterious powers and dynamics of remembrance in reigns which are usually not in the focus of general attention. |