IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 335: Memory and the Materiality of Medieval Texts, III: (Pseudo-) Prophecies as Future Memory in Medieval Historiography and Hagiography
Monday 2 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Fate, Freedom & Prognostication, Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung (IKGF), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
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Organiser: | Hans-Christian Lehner, Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung (IKGF), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg |
Moderator/Chair: | Anke Holdenried, Department of History, University of Bristol |
Paper 335-a | Manipulated Memoria: How Andronikos I Survived in Historiographical Thought (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
Paper 335-b | (Pseudo-)Prophecies as Future Memory in Medieval Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
Paper 335-c | Hagiography and Future Memory (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session considers cultures of collective reading and memorialising, with a thematic focus on the manipulation of memory. In particular, the papers explore how the predictive mode in medieval texts attempted to influence what future generations would remember. |