IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1606: New Studies on Historiographical Manuscripts, I: Historians at Work
Thursday 5 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | H37 - Histoire & Cultures Graphiques, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve |
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| Organiser: | Antoine Brix, Département d'histoire, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve |
| Moderator/Chair: | Antoine Brix, Département d'histoire, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve |
| Paper 1606-a | A 13th-Century Historian at Work: Giles of Orval and the Autograph of the Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1606-b | Étienne Maleu: A French Historian and His Sources at the Beginning of the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 1606-c | Embarrassment of Riches or Hobson's Choice?: A Burgundian Historiographer's Journey into the Distant Past (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Abstract | The first of two dedicated to historiographical manuscripts of the European Middle Ages, this session will address the various ways in which medieval historians deal with, and relate to, the written sources of their work. In their hands, sources were not so much mere texts as concrete manuscripts, i.e. complex, relatively scarce and, by definition, unique cultural artefacts. In this respect, historiography writing appears to be a documentary practice and a circumstantial endeavour much dependent on the material predicament of every single historian engaged in it: what is known to him/her, what he/she has access to, what others can supply him/her with, what he/she is able to use, what is relevant to his/her work, etc. |