IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1243: Medieval Timelines in Education and History
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Institutt for lærarutdanning, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Trondheim |
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| Organiser: | Peter Lunga, Christ's College, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Karl Christian Alvestad, Department of History, University of Winchester |
| Paper 1243-a | Representations of Time and Allegorical History in the Pre-Tridentine Liturgy of Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Liturgy |
| Paper 1243-b | Sacred and Corrupt Lineages in the Histories of Norwegian Kings and Saints (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 1243-c | The Reformatory Timeline: How Pre-Printing Press Reformers Influenced the Lutheran Reformation (Language: English) Index terms: Printing History, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session explores the varieties of linear representations of time, bringing together papers on medieval timelines as well as papers on modern timelines of medieval time. The use of graphical means to visualise chronology seems intrinsic to historians' efforts to systematise and distil historical complexity. Timelines have been used for centuries to make connections across time, synchronise narratives, divide time into periods and to map the past in general. They are also prevalent in classrooms, textbooks and educational digital resources, providing students with ways of working with history that might revolve less around text and writing. We are interested in investigating some of the opportunities this might provide. |