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Looking Back to the Future: The Uses and Abuses of Temporality

  • Firth, M. (Invited speaker)
  • Zita Rohr (Speaker)
  • Anna Jagoš (Invited speaker)
  • Louise Berglund (Invited speaker)
  • Ellie Woodacre (Invited speaker)
  • Patrik Pastrnak (Invited speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk

Description

This round table discussion concludes the series of sessions organised by the Royal Studies Network and takes its cue from the themes of Time, Memory, History, and Genealogy explored in our preceding four sessions, as well as those investigated by our three jointly sponsored sessions organised by the Reconfiguring Bohemian Queenship Project. This sessions explore more generally the uses and abuses of temporality, taking into account those who authored, created, commissioned, and span a variety of temporalities by multiple means. By focussing on the role of the orator/historian/chronicler/'spin doctor', it aims to open a wider discourse in response to Cicero's enigmatic question: 'By what other voice than that of the orator is history the witness of time, the light of truth, the life of memory, the directress of life, and the herald of antiquity, committed to immortality'?
Period9 Jul 2026
Event titleInternational Medieval Congress: Temporalities
Event typeConference
LocationLeeds, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

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