IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 336: Conflicting Memories: Navigating Conflict and Creating Consensus in the Medieval World, II

Organiser:	Kieran Ball, Faculty of History, Trinity College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:	Andrew Holland, Queen's College, University of Oxford
Paper 336-a	An 8th-Century Abbess in an 11th-Century World: Inventing Memories of St Mildrith (Language: English) Sumner Braund, St John's College, University of Oxford Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Lay Piety, Religious Life
Paper 336-b	Disobedient Martyrs: Memory and Authority in the Visigothic Passions (Language: English) David Addison, Mansfield College, University of Oxford Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography
Paper 336-c	'It was a graveyard smash': Humour and the Dance of Death in the 15th-Century Danse Macabre des Femmes and Bergamo's Oratorio dei Disciplini (Language: English) Ariana Ellis, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Downtown Index terms: Art History - Painting, Lay Piety
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.