WHERE DID YOU COME FROM, WHERE DID YOU GO? ORIGIN NARRATIVES AND THE HISTORY OF PEOPLES, PLACES AND IDEAS
27-29 JUNE 2018 | ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Tuesday 26th June
8pm Onwards: ‘Meet and Greet’ at the Ship and Castle Pub (All welcome!)
Wednesday 27th June
10:30 – 11:15 – Registration
11:15–11:30 – Welcome and Introduction
11:30-13:00 – Session 1:
Chair: Abby Monk (Aberystwyth)
From Ilium to Iceland: Creating and Defending Cultural Identity in Snorri’s Ynglinga Saga – Harriet Clark (Nottingham)
‘His time will always be spoken of as good’: Kingship and succession in commemorative skaldic poetry – Lucie Hobson (Cambridge)
Alexander, master of clerecía? Revisiting the functionalities of the Libro de Alexandre – Mariana Leite (Porto)
13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 – Session 2:
Chair: Antoni Grabowski (Warsaw)
Cináed mac Ailpin as primus rex Scottorum. The construction of the origins of the Scottish identity in the “Chronicle of the Kings of Alba” – Franziska Quaas (Hamburg)
Localised Saints Cults and the Spread of Dedications in Early Medieval mid-Wales – Amy Reynolds (Bangor)
Old Bones, New Soups: Was Beowulf Ever an Origin Story? – Catalin Taranu (Bucharest)
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:15 – 17:45 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Kiri Kolt (Aberystwyth)
The Bavarians and their origin – the ‘foundlings’ of the Early Middle Ages? – Alheydis Plassmann (Bonn)
19:30 – Dinner at Medina (SY23 1DL)
Thursday 28th June
9:30 – 11:00 Session 3
Chair: TBA
The new heroes, the new miles Christi on the example of the Bella antiochena of Walter the Chancellor – Olga Pełech (Wrocław)
Old Tales for a New Gens. Grafting History in the High Middle Ages – Antoni Grabowski (Warsaw)
Transferring Historical Identity and Legitimacy: Caesar, Rome and the Germans in the 12th century Middle High German Kaiserchronik – Christoph Pretzer (King’s College London/Cambridge)
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Session 4:
Chair: Rhun Emlyn (Aberystwyth)
Shaping the image of enemy – some examples of the language of exclusion in the sources of the First Crusade – Tomasz Pełech (Wrocław/Clermont-Auvergne)
‘What’s in a name?’: Etymologising Normannus in the Duchy of Normandy – Eric Wolever (York)
Cloistered Refuge – The Origins of Saint-Évroult and exile in Orderic Vitalis – Abby Monk (Aberystwyth)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 5:
Chair: Kiri Kolt (Aberystwyth)
The memory of a founding bishop in the thirteenth-century foundation narrative of the Danish Cistercian abbey of Øm – Gunvor Platou (Cambridge)
Three’s a Crowd: Chronicle Sources for The Origin Narratives of the Bianchi Devotions in 1399 – Alexandra Lee (University College London)
To be or not be (a goth): gothic origins and the construction of identity of Iberian kingdoms (10th – 12th centuries) – Joana Gomes (Porto)
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:30 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Björn Weiler (Aberystwyth)
Forging Origins of St Peter’s, Ghent: Reality Fictions and Histories – Robert Berkhofer (WMU and President of the Haskins Society)
19:30 Dinner at Cassablanca (SY23 2AR) Bring your own alcohol!
Friday 29th June
9:30 – 11:00 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Abbey Monk
Origin Myths in the Medieval North: an overview – Haki Antonsson (UCL)
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:00 Session 6:
Chair: TBA
Redefining the Ducal past: Norman identities in the Chronique de Normandie – Alex Hurlow (Manchester)
Poles as an autochthonous people: Vincent Kadłubek’s origio gentis – Marcin Kurdyka (Chambéry)
A woman as the ‘real founder’: The role of females in 12th-century foundation legends – Kiri Kolt (Aberystwyth)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Session 7:
Chair: TBA
Albina: failed female founder? Founders and the act of founding in the ‘Albina’ Prologue of The Middle English Prose Brut Chronicle – Madelaine Smart (Liverpool)
Three crowns of Brutus – an idea of a universal insular kingdom – Jakub Jauernig (Prague)
15:30 – 15:45 Concluding remarks and close
15:30 – Coffee and Cake
19:30 Dinner (TBC)