IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 605: Writing Medieval History / Reading Medieval History, II
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Haskins Society |
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Organiser: | Giles Connolly, Department of History University of Birmingham |
Moderator/Chair: | Emily A. Winkler, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford / Department of History, University College London |
Paper 605-a | Creative Copying, Selective Omissions, and Rewriting the Past: Gervase of Canterbury's Actus Pontificum (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism |
Paper 605-b | Mastering Time in the Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Medieval |
Paper 605-c | The Many Faces of Historical Culture in Late 12th-Century England: Sources and Contexts of the 'Sawley' Compilation (Cambridge, University Library Ff.1.27 and Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 66) (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | While medieval historical writing is a valuable tool for accessing the course of events in the past, it offers more than a causal narrative to be assessed for its accuracy. These texts reflect the institutional, geographical, political or literary context of their production, the attitudes of their authors and the expectations of their audiences. Analysing them demonstrates the processes of medieval historiography, turning events into comprehensible narratives, and reveals the relationship of medieval people with the past. This panel aims to provide new readings, interpretations and approaches to medieval historical works, through a discussion of the content and context of medieval historiography. |