IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 312: The Danelaw and the March of Wales: Cultural Borderlands?
Monday 12 July 2004, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Max Lieberman, Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Max Lieberman, Faculty of Modern History, University of Oxford |
| Paper 312-a | Cultural Contacts in the Danelaw, 850-1200 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Geography and Settlement Studies, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 312-b | Cultural Contacts and the Making of the March of Wales, 1070-1283 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Geography and Settlement Studies, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 312-c | Saints on the Edge: The Reconfiguring of Sanctity in the Welsh March (Language: English) |
| Abstract | We propose to compare cultural contact in the Danelaw and the March of Wales. What insights about medieval societies may be gained by setting the impact of the Vikings on Northumbria beside the Anglo-Norman settlement of the Welsh borders? Does a story of conquest followed by colonisation suit both tenth-century Northumbria and twelfth-century Powys? To what extent did cultural exchange or assimilation take place? Were frontier regions shaped in both instances? Thus, our panel would seek to cross historiographical boundaries by taking examples from the early and High Middle Ages and from different parts of the British Isles. (Further details to follow as soon as possible). |