IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 701: Eadmer of Canterbury, I: Eadmer's Memory, Manuscripts, and Evidence
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Organisers: | Charlie Rozier, Durham University Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies Sally N. Vaughn, Department of History, University of Houston, Texas |
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Moderator/Chair: | Charlie Rozier, Durham University Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies |
Respondent: | Charlie Rozier, Durham University Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies |
Paper 701-a | Eadmer and His Books: What Sort of Scribe Was He? (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
Paper 701-b | Uses of Evidence in Eadmer's Historia novorum (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism |
Abstract | This session explores Eadmer's aims as a monastic historian from three different vantage points: the first examines his use of personal recollection and eyewitness testimony; the second re-visits his compilations of his own works (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MSS 371 and 452); the third investigates books five and six of the Historia nouorum and their use of forgeries and other documents. |