IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 731: Material Culture and Landscapes, III: Remembering Past Deeds
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Medieval Landscape/Seascape Research Group |
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Organisers: | Daniel Brown, Historisches Institut, Universität zu Köln Stefanie Schild, Independent Scholar, Hilden |
Moderator/Chair: | Karl Christian Alvestad, Department of History, University of Winchester |
Paper 731-a | 'Such guardian or defiant tombs': Memorialisation of Burial Mounds by Early and Post-Conquest Poets and Chroniclers (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Historiography - Medieval |
Paper 731-b | 'Now we're going back to the 21st century': Remembering Early Medieval Places, Poems, and Objects in Performances at Sutton Hoo (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Literacy and Orality, Local History |
Paper 731-c | 'Under a heaped barrow the chieftains of the land': Inscribing Memory of Bohemia's Mythical Dukes into Landscape (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Slavic, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Abstract | Memory can differ in many ways. It can present itself in a landscape, a certain place, a certain name, a manuscript or oral tradition for example. It can be interpreted differently be each person and generation. It can influence history and memory on its own. So it is no surprise that this topic can be found in various disciplines. The papers of this session will explore how burial grounds functioned as places of memory, shaped and influenced it. Its reflection can be found in oral and written history. It could even influence the choice of a battle-site. |