IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1612: Archives and Sources: Searching for Crises, II - Hidden in Plain Sight
Thursday 4 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Sponsor: | The National Archives, Kew |
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| Organiser: | Euan Roger, The National Archives, Kew |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jenny McHugh, Department of History, Lancaster University |
| Paper 1612-a | A Crisis in the Choir?: Discipline, Absence and Expulsion in a Late Medieval College (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History and Religious Life |
| Paper 1612-b | How Do You Lose a Dean?: Geoffrey Simeon, Dean of Windsor, 1504-1505 (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources and Ecclesiastical History |
| Paper 1612-c | Hidden in Plain Sight?: The Nature of Historical Discovery (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Gender Studies, Medievalism and Antiquarianism and Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | How have single document discoveries changed the way historians think about their research subjects, whether biographical or thematic? To what extent do the activities of antiquarians and archivists – through calendars, publications, and editions – conceal and / or enable the process of, and potential for, discovery? Can a fresh look at established evidence provide us to draw out new perspectives on material hidden in plain sight? This session will allow presenters to discuss examples from their own research, where discoveries have changed their perceptions and altered the landscape of particular subjects or collections. Two papers consider new evidence and perspectives for appointments and dismissals of religious figures among the collegiate community at St George’s College, Windsor. The third paper examines the nature of historical discovery, and the interaction between historians and the archive in uncovering material hidden in plain sight. |