Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1009
Title	Hincmar's 9th Century, I: The History of Hincmar
Date/Time	Wednesday 11 July 2012: 09.00-10.30
Organiser	Rachel Stone, Department of History, King's College London / Library, Learning Resources & Information, University of Bedfordshire
	Charles West, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Moderator/Chair	Charles West, Department of History, University of Sheffield
Paper 1009-a	The Bearing of Hincmar's Life on His Historical Writing (Language: English) Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1009-b	Hincmar's Vita Remigii: History of the Diffusion and Reception (Language: English) Marie-Celine Isaïa, Département d'histoire, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III Index Terms: Hagiography; Historiography - Medieval; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1009-c	Hero or Villain?: Master Narratives of Archbishop Hincmar in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Language: English) Letha Böhringer, Historisches Institut / Forschungsstelle Geschichte Kölns, Universität zu Köln Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Historiography - Modern Scholarship
Abstract	Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims (845-882) is a central figure for historians of early medieval Francia and to a great degree shapes our vision of the later Carolingian empire. In his own time, however, he was a highly controversial figure. Our series of sessions on him starts with a paper which explores the connections between Hincmar's life and his own historical writings, and then two papers which move forward in time to show how his accounts of events and his own personal history have influenced historians ever since.