IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 847: Political and Liturgical Memory in the Central Middle Ages
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Politics, Society and Liturgy in the Middle Ages (PSALM) Network |
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| Organiser: | Pieter Byttebier, Vakgroep Geschiedenis, Universiteit Gent |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sarah M. Hamilton, Department of History, University of Exeter |
| Paper 847-a | Liturgy, History, and Memory in the Medieval Mediterranean (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Liturgy |
| Paper 847-b | Liturgy in Historical Writing from Medieval Southern Italy: Lay and Monastic Perspectives (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Liturgy |
| Paper 847-c | Liturgical Realpolitik, Historiographical Memory, and the Restoration(s) of the Medieval Polish Kingdom (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Central medieval leaders often used commemorative practices, such as history writing or various rituals, to not only display and maintain power, but also to actively forge communal identities or conceptualizations of the world. Yet, the commemorative practice par excellence was liturgy, which has already been studied as a discursive space that could tie in multiple communal or leadership identities. However, Politics and Liturgy are still being studied too separately. Papers in this session will assist in bridging exactly this gap. By applying the perspective of commemoration, from a range of examples and sources of the central medieval world, speakers will investigate the reciprocal or overlapping relationship between political and liturgical dynamics, and specifically in acts of memory. This will also allow assessing the overly normative appreciation of liturgy within the volatile framework of politics and of memory that constituted it. |