IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1008: Writing and Rewriting Medieval History, I: Literary Adaptations
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Matthew Firth, College of Humanities Arts & Social Sciences Flinders University Adelaide |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Connor Wilson, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
| Paper 1008-a | Translating Pre-Conquest History within English Borders: Wace and Laȝamon's Verse as a Prism of Post-Conquest Identities (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - French or Occitan |
| Paper 1008-b | 'A little handbook of chronology': Contexts and Purposes of De primo Saxonum aduentu (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Local History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 1008-c | Creating Cornwall with(in) Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Local History |
| Abstract | The centuries following the Norman Conquest saw the production of an extensive corpus of history writing that focused on the pre-Norman past. Anglo-Norman intellectual culture was keenly aware that England's history stretched back to sub-Roman Britain, as were successive generations of medieval historians. Such history writing shaped and adapted the past for contemporary audiences, influenced in their composition by political, institutional, cultural, and literary concerns. This series of panels is concerned with these adaptations of English history and proposes new approaches to the study of historiography in medieval Britain. This first session focuses on literary adaptations of the past. |