IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1720: Medieval War and Memory, I: Early Memories of War in Europe

Thursday 8 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Organisers:	Kathryn Hurlock, Department of History- Politics and Philosophy- Manchester Metropolitan University Katrina Ingram, Department of History, Politics & Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University
Moderator/Chair:	Kathryn Hurlock, Department of History- Politics and Philosophy- Manchester Metropolitan University
Paper 1720-a	Ethnicity, Imperialism, and the Changing Memories of the Battle on the Raxa (Language: English) Chris Halsted, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Military History
Paper 1720-b	Maldon and Roncevaux: Recreating Memory (Language: English) Parvinder Kaur, Department of English, Sikkim University Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Military History
Paper 1720-c	Ganuz Wolf: A Viking Lost in Textual Transmission (Language: English) Adrian Israel Rodriguez Avila, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Military History
Abstract	This panel will examine the memory of early medieval warriors and battles, discussing how later writers commemorated these warriors, and in some cases, manipulated the memory to suit their current political needs. The first paper looks at the battle on the Raxa in 955 and how later annalists manipulated the memory of this battle to suit their political agenda. The second paper studies two poems written to commemorate early medieval warriors. The final paper focuses on the identity of Ganuz Wolf as remembered in the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum.