IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 631: Material Culture and Landscapes, II: Memory and the Sacred
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval Landscape/Seascape Research Group |
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| Organisers: | Daniel Brown, Historisches Institut, Universität zu Köln Stefanie Schild, Independent Scholar, Hilden |
| Moderator/Chairs: | Kimm Curran, History Lab+, Institute of Historical Research, University of London Rachel Elizabeth Swallow, Department of History & Archaeology, University of Chester |
| Paper 631-a | Bene memoria: Constructing a Christian History out of Cologne's Early Medieval Urban Landscape (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Literacy and Orality, Local History |
| Paper 631-b | Claiming Cuthbert: Durham Cathedral Priory and the Landscape of Northern Monasticism (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | The medieval landscape and environment has a rich and long tradition and is an area in which many of the disciplines that comprise medieval studies have made significant contributions. Scholars working on ideas of the landscape, concepts of space and place as well as in the developing field of environmental humanities have added to our theoretical framework for understanding people's relationships with the environment in the past. This session focuses on memory and the sacred. It seeks to highlight how the memory was negotiated through physical encounters within the landscape, ritualised behaviours, and sacred naming practice of place. |