IMC 2018: Sessions

Session 641: Registering the Past: Sources and Methods for the Study of Episcopal Memory and Memorialization

Sponsor:	EPISCOPUS: Society for the Study of Bishops & the Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages
Organiser:	Evan Gatti, Department of Art & Art History, Elon University, North Carolina
Moderator/Chair:	Katy Cubitt, School of History, University of East Anglia
Paper 641-a	Bishops as Patrons in Carolingian Gesta Episcoporum (Language: English) Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis, Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval
Paper 641-b	Bishops and Their Registers as Guardians of Public Memory in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Alison McHardy, Department of History, University of Nottingham Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval
Paper 641-c	Lapidary Virtues: Inscriptions and Epitaphs Commemorating Bishops, c. 900-1150 (Language: English) John S. Ott, Department of History, Portland State University, Oregon Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval
Abstract	This panel proposes to examine varying methodologies for the study and application of practices of memory and memorialization by secular clergy, with a focus on bishops. Its unifying thread will be the presenters' consideration of different source-types - including later medieval bishops' registers, Carolingian narratives about architecture, episcopal epitaphs and inscriptions - and the methodological challenges and opportunities they present for the study of memory among the secular clergy.