IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 508: The Past as Practice, c. 900-1300, I
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Research in Historiography & Historical Culture, Aberystwyth University |
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| Organiser: | Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Levi Roach, Department of History, University of Exeter |
| Paper 508-a | Automatic Authors?: Some Thoughts about the Development of German Historiography in the 11th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 508-b | Damnatio memoriae: The Art of Forgetting in High Medieval Denmark (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 508-c | How to Prove an Invented Past (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Abstract | Across high medieval Europe, contemporaries engaged in reimagining, refashioning, recovering, and recording the past. They did so in a range of genres and media: historical writing, charters, liturgical, and legal texts, works of Biblical exegesis, even in moulding the landscape, in the design of buildings, manuscript illuminations and statues. They did not do so in isolation. Uses and cultures of the past were as much social as they were cultural activities. Authors, informants, patrons, forebears, rivals, benefactors, peers, superiors, dependents, audiences, readers, scribes, copyists all played a part in preserving, shaping and using it. We are concerned with these practices. How did people find out about the past? How was the past experienced? What was the role of patrons, benefactors, peers, rivals, informants, etc.? What can we say about dissemination? And what does answering these questions reveal about the broader social and cultural ferment out of which such engagements emerged? |