IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 807: The Experience of Medieval History: News, Knowledge, Information, and Ignorance
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Haskins Society / Centre for the Study of Historiography & Historical Culture, University of Aberystwyth |
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Organiser: | Emily A. Winkler, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford / Department of History, University College London |
Moderator/Chair: | Michael Staunton, School of History, University College Dublin |
Paper 807-a | Ignorance in High Medieval Historiography (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Philosophy |
Paper 807-b | News Letters, Current Events, and Historical Mentalities, c. 1200 (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities |
Paper 807-c | What Did People Know about History (and What Did They Want to Know about It)?: The Experience of the Past in 13th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
Abstract | This medieval historiography panel is about knowledge, news, information and ignorance - both 1) as they are written about by medieval writers in the past, and 2) as they apply to writers' own experience. All papers examine the relationship between writing and experience in the High Middle Ages. Panelists will explore the ways in which historical consciousness a part of writing about contemporary history or current events. They also ask how and why certain writers sought-some very assiduously-to recreate a present quality even in writing about the remote past. |