Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1108
Title	Writing and Rewriting Medieval History, II: Adapting Reputation
Date/Time	Wednesday 6 July 2022: 11.15-12.45
Organiser	Matthew Firth, College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide
Moderator/Chair	Lauren L. Whitnah, Marco Institute for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Paper 1108-a	King Offa of Mercia, Damnatio memoriae or Vir mirabilis: Transmission and Adaptation in Post-Conquest England (Language: English) Julian Calcagno, College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Language and Literature - Latin; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1108-b	'Cesare splendidior': Anglo-Norman Memories of Æthelflæd of Mercia (Language: English) Matthew Firth, College of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Language and Literature - Latin; Politics and Diplomacy; Rhetoric
Paper 1108-c	The Construction of an Image: Understanding Depictions of the Empress Matilda and the Relationship between Gender and Power in Gesta Stephani and Historia Novella (Language: English) Lisa Cruikshank, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto Index Terms: Historiography - Medieval; Language and Literature - Latin; Politics and Diplomacy; Women's Studies
Abstract	The centuries following the Norman Conquest saw the production of an extensive corpus of history writing that focused on the pre-Norman past. Anglo-Norman intellectual culture was keenly aware that England's history stretched back to sub-Roman Britain, as were successive generations of medieval historians. Such history writing shaped and adapted the past for contemporary audiences, influenced in their composition by political, institutional, cultural, and literary concerns. This series of panels is concerned with these adaptations of English history and proposes new approaches to the study of historiography in medieval Britain. This second session focuses on the transmission and adaptation of personal reputation.