IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 708: The Past as Practice, c. 900-1300, III
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| 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: | Mia Münster-Swendsen, Institut for Kommunikation og Humanistisk Videnskab, Roskilde Universitet |
| Paper 708-a | The Golden Legend as a Battlefield in Central Europe before 1300 (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 708-b | Poeticising the Past in Robert Mannyng's Chronicle (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Comparative |
| Paper 708-c | Romualdo Guarna and Universal Chronicle Writing in Norman Southern Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| 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? |