IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 722: The Borders of Universal History
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Values of French Language & Literature in the European Middle Ages |
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| Organiser: | Henry Ravenhall, Department of French King's College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Matthew Siôn Lampitt, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics/ St John's College University of Cambridge |
| Paper 722-a | Renegotiating the Border between Secular and Sacred in the Manuscripts of the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 722-b | The Borders of the Author's Land: The Domain of 'Authenticity' in Medieval Vernacular Historical Narratives, From the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César Backwards (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 722-c | Frontiers of Time and Place: Geographical Understanding in and of the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César and Its Manuscript Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | Universal histories, despite being the dominant mode through which medieval audiences engaged with the past, remain understudied by literary critics. This panel, organised by the ERC-funded project 'The Values of French' (2015-20), takes the Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César as a case study to explore various types of border: its vast manuscript tradition not only traverses Europe and the Mediterranean, a journey reflected in the narrative itself, but also raises questions about the borderline categories scholars employ to interrogate medieval texts ('historical' and 'literary', 'truth' and 'fiction', 'authority', 'authenticity', 'secular' and 'sacred'). |