IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1139: Modes of Remembrance in High Medieval Germany
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Johanna Dale, Department of History, University College London |
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Moderator/Chair: | Alheydis Plassmann, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
Paper 1139-a | Abbot Herman of Niederaltaich's Rent Book and Cartulary: From Memory to Written Record or Phantoms of Remembrance? (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History |
Paper 1139-b | The Karlsschrein in Aachen: Cui bono? (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Liturgy, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1139-c | How and Why Was a 7th-Century Northumbrian King Remembered in High Medieval Germany? (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - German, Liturgy |
Abstract | In the 12th- and 13th-century Empire, all sorts of memories were constructed in a variety of forms. This interdisciplinary session explores the questions of how and why memories were forged in media as diverse as administrative manuscripts, saints' shrines, liturgies, and historical, hagiographical, and literary texts. Was the Abbot of Niederaltaich simply recording past transactions or was his rent book and cartulary part of a wider project of remembrance? Is the famous Aachen Karlsschrein a monument to imperial or local memory? And why was a 7th-century Northumbrian king commemorated in sculpture, liturgy, and literature in high medieval Germany? |