IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1108: Writing and Rewriting Medieval History, II: Adapting Reputation
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Matthew Firth, College of Humanities Arts & Social Sciences Flinders University Adelaide |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Lauren L. Whitnah, Marco Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Paper 1108-a | King Offa of Mercia, Damnatio memoriae or Vir mirabilis: Transmission and Adaptation in Post-Conquest England (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1108-b | 'Cesare splendidior': Anglo-Norman Memories of Æthelflæd of Mercia (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1108-c | The Construction of an Image: Understanding Depictions of the Empress Matilda and the Relationship between Gender and Power in Gesta Stephani and Historia Novella (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
| 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 second session focuses on the transmission and adaptation of personal reputation. |