IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 836: Time in Medieval Europe, II: The Continental Perspective - Remembering the Future, 11th and 12th Centuries
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Miriam Czock, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen Amalie Fößel, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Amalie Fößel, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen |
| Paper 836-a | Future Deaths and Present Occupations in Hélinand of Froidmont's Work (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Paper 836-b | Ascertaining Uncertainty?: Concepts of Mutability in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Paper 836-c | No Time like the Present of the Past to Face the Future: Rupert of Deutz's Explanation of the Liturgy (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Liturgy, Mentalities |
| Abstract | The 11th and 12th centuries were long regarded as a formative phase in which many modern phenomena have their roots. This paradigm has also been applied to the exploration of 11th and 12th century concepts of history and time declaring it to be a period in which a concept of linear time took root. It was thus emphasised that time was understood as a sequence of past, present, and future and history was understood to be constructed as memory. This session proposes to look at time in another fashion: rather than looking at the past as something gone that is only linked by memory to the present, it will explore the intricate nature in which past and future were intertwined to structure time and make sense of the present. |