IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 603: Galbert van Brugge: New Interpretations
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek |
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| Organiser: | Rob Meens, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rob Meens, Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Universiteit Utrecht |
| Respondent: | Jeff Rider, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, Wesleyan University, Connecticut |
| Paper 603-a | The Treacherous Oath of the Erembalds: A New Look into the Ties of the Group of Count Charles the Good's Murderers (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Law, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Paper 603-b | Mortal Ambiguity: Framing the Dying by Galbert of Bruges (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Rhetoric, Social History |
| Paper 603-c | An Ambivalent Narrative to Fit God's Plan: Galbert of Bruges's Quest for the Righteous Count of Flanders (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Shortly after the murder of the Flemish count Charles the Good in 1127, Galbert of Bruges, wrote a fresh and detailed account trying to explain the murder and describing the ensuing political troubles in Flanders. This text has always received a lot of historical attention. Thanks to the groundbreaking work of Jeff Rider, who not only published a new edition of the text, but also a translation and a thorough study of its author, we no longer see Galbert as a naive writer simply describing what he saw, but as an artful and conscious author. Following the lead of Rider's work this session offers some new interpretation of this fascinating piece of historiography. |