IMC 2020: Sessions

Session 1212: Generic Borders, III: Articulating Perceptions of the Past in the Carolingian and Post-Carolingian World - England and the Continent

Sponsor:	School of History, Politics & International Relations, University of Leicester
Organiser:	Joanna Story, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester
Moderator/Chair:	Simon MacLean, Department of History, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Paper 1212-a	The Reinvention of Scribal Craft in 10th-Century Britain (Language: English) Colleen Curran, Faculty of English Literature & Language, University of Oxford Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1212-b	Charlemagne, Alcuin, and Æthelstan (Language: English) Joanna Story, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1212-c	Writing Belonging: Integrating Knut into the English Historiographical Tradition (Language: English) Pragya Vohra, Department of History, University of York Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval
Abstract	This session focuses on evidence from 10th- and 11th-century England of the ways in which history was conceptualized and continental exemplars influenced contemporary scribes and scholars, and their secular patrons.