IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 839: Remembering the Past after the Carolingian Empire, IV: Myths and Memories
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | After Empire: Using & Not Using the Past in the Crisis of the Carolingian World, c. 900-1050 |
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| Organiser: | Sarah Greer, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Moderator/Chair: | Stuart Airlie, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow |
| Paper 839-a | Beyond the Cadaver Synod: Myths of Pope Formosus and the Late Anglo-Saxon Church's Sense of Its Past (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 839-b | 'Last in the order of kings': Prior Kings and Ideas about Kingship in the West Frankish kingdom, c. 1000 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 839-c | 'Pro spe futurae remunerationis': Queens, Memorialization, and the Hope for a Better Future in the Ottonian Empire (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Lay Piety, Liturgy, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session seeks to appreciate the politics of the 10th and 11th Century - both secular and ecclesiastic - by trying to understand how individuals and institutions in this period themselves saw their own relationship to what had gone before. Memories of kings, queens and popes could be harnessed to serve present needs, reacting to the rise of new forms of authority and rulership. By examining how and why these memories of the past emerged and were cultivated in the 10th and 11th centuries, these papers explore how authors searched for legitimacy and identity in new remembrances of the past. |