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IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 236: Conflicting Memories: Navigating Conflict and Creating Consensus in the Medieval World, I - Remembering Bodies

Monday 2 July 2018, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:Kieran Ball, Faculty of History, Trinity College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:David Addison, Mansfield College, University of Oxford
Paper 236-aMemory, Warfare, and the Anglo-Saxon Landscape
(Language: English)
Andrew Holland, Queen's College, University of Oxford
Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy, Rhetoric
Paper 236-bRecollecting Corineus's Contribution to the Founding of Britain
(Language: English)
Timothy J. Nelson, Department of English, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Rhetoric
Abstract

This panel is focused on the aspect of conflict inherent in the act of remembrance, a personal act which demands that some aspects of the past are privileged over others. This session centres on the malleability of memory, specifically how conflicts provide a site for re-remembering and creating consensus.