IMC 2025: Sessions
Session 1534: Learning the Middle Ages in the Long 19th Century, I: Early Medieval History and Culture
Thursday 10 July 2025, 09:00-10:30
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York / ERC Project 'Early Medieval English in 19th-Century Europe' (EMERGENCE), Universiteit Leiden (StG 101115867) |
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| Organisers: | Ellen Gallimore, Department of English & Related Literature, University of York Matthew Townend, Centre for Medieval Studies / Department of English & Related Literature, University of York |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jane Hawkes, Department of History of Art, University of York |
| Paper 1534-a | The Rising Tithe: Medieval Tithe Law and Church Reform in 1830s Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1534-b | Grendel on a Flemish Beach and Beowulf up a Dutch Stream: Appropriations of Old English in the 19th-Century Low Countries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 1534-c | Beauty is Truth (and Correct Grammar): The Aesthetics of Learning and Translating Old English in the Early-19th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Abstract | Throughout the nineteenth century, various factors impacted on the study of early medieval history. The papers in this panel will examine different approaches to early medieval history and culture: through law, through landscape, and through language. Together these papers offer nuanced views of the impetus for scholarship of the early Middle Ages and how scholars considered the present and the past in conversation. |