IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1705: Getting the Message: Historians and Diplomats, c. 1100-1300
Thursday 9 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Arts & Humanities Research Council / Haskins Society |
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| Organisers: | Owain Wyn Jones, School of History, Welsh History & Archaeology, Bangor University Emily A. Winkler, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford / Department of History, University College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Dauvit Broun, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow |
| Respondent: | Emily A. Winkler, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford / Department of History, University College London |
| Paper 1705-a | Negotiations and Chronicles in Medieval Wales (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Celtic, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1705-b | Writing the Conflicts between Capetian and Plantagenet Kings in 13th-Century Norman Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Monasticism, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1705-c | Historians and Diplomats in Angevin England (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Historical writing is often described as appropriating or using the past to reinforce present aims or advance colonial values. This comparative session, based on the organisers' AHRC-funded project, investigates medieval history-writing not as a replacement strategy, but as a medium for reflecting on relationships between people in the past. How did diplomats use history, and how did historians portray diplomacy? To what extent did historians reflect on the importance of forging, maintaining and altering diplomatic relationships between rulers in the Middle Ages? How did historians and diplomats try to break down the borders and barriers between 'then' and 'now' in efforts to create mutual understanding in the past—and between reader and writer? |