IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 346: Memory and Memoria: The Dead Can't Defend Themselves or, How Archives Create Portraits of Personalities
Monday 2 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank (MHDBDB) / Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF), Universität Salzburg |
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Organiser: | Katharina Zeppezauer-Wachauer, Mittelhochdeutsche Begriffsdatenbank (MHDBDB), Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Mittelalter und Frühneuzeit (IZMF), Universität Salzburg |
Moderator/Chair: | Jutta Baumgartner, Zentrum für Gastrosophie, Universität Salzburg |
Paper 346-a | The Digital Archive: Data-Based (His-)Stories (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - German |
Paper 346-b | The Bishop on the Kermis: The Canonization of Bishop Virgil and Regional Cult in Salzburg (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Local History |
Paper 346-c | Book-Donations in Blessed Memory of the Dead: Examples from the Library of the Archabbey of St Peter, Salzburg (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History, Local History |
Abstract | Archives have always been amongst others places of remembrance preserving the memory of people. Their task is not only preservation and safekeeping but also the (re-)creation of the memorial of individuals. This section will discuss how posterity helps create, guide, and preserve the remembrance of people. While the first paper tells how digital lexical systems take over archival tasks and use sedimented memory to develop portraits of poets, the focus of the second is on the roles that archives and libraries play in the development of regional medieval memorial culture. A third paper deals with book donations and how they create portraits of historical figures and the last focuses on different kinds of traces of individuals in both privately and commonly used (prayer-)books in the Abbey of Nonnberg. |