IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 324: The Chronicling of Conquest in the Norman South
Monday 2 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Department of History, Lancaster University |
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| Organiser: | John Aspinwall, Department of History, Lancaster University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Graham A. Loud, School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 324-a | 'From an ancient and corrupt hand': The Role of Memory in the Early Modern Manuscript Transmission of the Cronica Roberti Biscardi (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 324-b | The Norman Conquest in the Historiography of Post-Norman Southern Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 324-c | Contemporary Knowledge and Written History: Some Matters Regarding Alexander of Telese's 'History of King Roger' (Language: English) |
| Abstract | In his history of the Norman Conquest of Sicily, Geoffrey Malaterra recorded how Roger I was 'determined to record for later generations his victories'. An illustrative example of how memorialisation was often a prime motivation for those chronicling conquest, this tradition extended into the early-modern period. Here, such practices - often overtly tied to political, religious, and legal concerns - were formative influences on the production of the earliest volumes of Sicilian history. This session shall examine the main narrative sources for the Norman conquests and, in doing so, offer new insights into the role of memorialisation in the formation of the south Italian historiographical tradition. |