CONGRESS CANCELED From History to My-Story: Affirming the Self in Medieval Chronicles
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In his famous definition of chronicles, Gervase of Canterbury notes that chronicles and histories were meant to be objective texts written in the third person in which historians were supposed to be mere mirrors of historical “reality.” Nevertheless, in many medieval texts, the “I” seems to crave to express itself in the first person singular. The author turns the mirror toward himself or herself and, as a result, history becomes my-story, thus turning medieval chronicles into journals that offer a more personal perspective on human history. This panel focuses on the transition from medieval annals and chronicles to more personal texts in which the writer, abandoning anonymity, expresses and includes the self in his or her works. Roberto Pesce
CONGRESS CANCELED From History to My-Story: Affirming the Self in Medieval Chronicles
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In his famous definition of chronicles, Gervase of Canterbury notes that chronicles and histories were meant to be objective texts written in the third person in which historians were supposed to be mere mirrors of historical “reality.” Nevertheless, in many medieval texts, the “I” seems to crave to express itself in the first person singular. The author turns the mirror toward himself or herself and, as a result, history becomes my-story, thus turning medieval chronicles into journals that offer a more personal perspective on human history. This panel focuses on the transition from medieval annals and chronicles to more personal texts in which the writer, abandoning anonymity, expresses and includes the self in his or her works. Roberto Pesce