IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 652: Do You Remember the First Time?: Historiographies of Memory Since the 1990s
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA), University of Birmingham |
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Organiser: | Christopher P. Callow, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA), University of Birmingham |
Moderator/Chair: | Chris Wickham, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
Paper 652-a | A Thousand Material Memories: Relic-Cults and Memories of Miracles in 12th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Hagiography, Literacy and Orality |
Paper 652-b | Memory in Medieval Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Literacy and Orality |
Paper 652-c | Imagined Communities: Monasteries, Memory, and Monastic History (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
Abstract | Memory has been much-studied for medieval societies since the 1990s and the appearance of influential syntheses by the likes of Fentress & Wickham and Assmann. This session considers how different sub-fields of medieval studies have dealt memory including the ways in which it has been made implicit and explicit in how scholars frame their study of medieval texts. |