IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 604: The Angevin World, II: Virtues, Vices, and Writing Lives
Tuesday 7 July 2026, 11:15-12:45
| Sponsor: | Haskins Society |
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| Organisers: | Michael Staunton, School of History, University College Dublin Emily A. Winkler, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| Moderator/Chair: | Colin Veach, School of Arts & Humanities, University of Hull |
| Respondent: | Arnaud Montreuil, Département des sciences humaines et sociales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi |
| Paper 604-a | Is Henry II of England an Overrated King? (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 604-b | The Problem of Gluttony in Angevin Thinking (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Social History |
| Paper 604-c | Biographers of Angevin England (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session, the second of two, celebrates recent advances in the study of the Angevin world or ‘le monde Plantagenêt’ (c. 1150–c. 1220). Session II showcases new approaches to life-writing, both as a medieval form of narrative and as a modern genre that allows us to assess a time and place through understanding a single well-documented life. Panellists consider medieval ideas about virtues, vices, character, and personality, exploring why and how contemporaries thought these features of human experience were worthy documenting. |