IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1133: Inventing Heroes, Reversing Legends, Constructing Facts: The Dynamics of Identity Shaping, II - The Mirror of Historiography
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Lise-Meitner Project, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences & Archive Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
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Organisers: | Klara Hübner, Department of Auxiliary Historical Sciences & Archive Studies, Masarykova univerzita, Brno David Kalhous, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
Moderator/Chair: | Walter Pohl, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien |
Paper 1133-a | Fragile Memory of 'Natural' Communities (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Mentalities, Social History |
Paper 1133-b | The Big History of Small Noblemen: Swiss Rural Elites Struggling for a Noble Ancestry (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Local History, Mentalities, Social History |
Paper 1133-c | The Medieval Heroes of Swedish Romantic Nationalism (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Mentalities, Social History |
Abstract | The process of re-collecting and remembering is 'fragile', full of discontinuities that are worthy of further research, because they disprove our understanding of history (or rather of the past) as a smooth process with a given (happy) ending. To analyse them means to understand better what challenges people and communities in the past faced. It also helps us to comprehend the transformation of the memories in certain epochs and how these are related to the different identifications. Therefore, we will focus in our panel on how these neuralgic points were created and perceived on one side, on the other side, we will discuss the transformation of the memories in certain periods of time throughout Europe. |