IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1303: Transformation and Creativity in the Face of Conquest: Poetics, History, Cosmology
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Literature, University of Southern Denmark / University of York |
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| Organiser: | Divna Manolova, Department of Philology, University of Silesia, Katowice |
| Moderator/Chair: | George Younge, Department of English & Related Literature, University of York |
| Paper 1303-a | Poetic Transformations and the Chronicling of History in Conquest England: 'The Death of Edward' (1066) and ‘The Death of William' (1086) (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 1303-b | Latin Learning in Crisis: Cosmology, Rhetoric, and Conquest in Stephen of Antioch, c. 1127 (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - Latin, Philosophy, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1303-c | New Borders and New Worlds: Nikephoros Blemmydes and the Teaching of Cosmology in Nicaea after 1204 (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Education, Philosophy, Science |
| Abstract | Along with violent disruption, conquest brings new sources of knowledge, new languages and forms, and simultaneously re-evaluates and reactivates old forms, languages and traditions, thus reshaping and adapting existing cosmologies and worldviews. With an eye to the historiographies of the study of conquests, this session examines the impact of conquest on the poetry, historiography and learned culture across medieval Europe between the 11th and the 13th centuries. With the help of three comparative and contrasting case studies - the Norman conquest and the poetry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles; the conquest of the Levant and Stephen of Antioch's problematisation of Latinity; the conquest of Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 and Nikephoros Blemmydes' scholarly view of the 'new' Byzantine world - we seek to explore the ways in which conquest entails the reordering of knowledge. |