IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1023: Negotiating Collective Identities in Medieval Europe
Wednesday 13 July 2005, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Sarah E. Layfield, Department of History, Durham University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Len Scales, Department of History, Durham University |
Paper 1023-a | Vikings and Churchmen: The Role of a Northumbrian Identity in Anglo-Scandinavian York (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Numismatics, Politics and Diplomacy, Religious Life |
Paper 1023-b | The Alien Next Door: Foreigners in Late Medieval Bruges (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Mentalities, Social History |
Paper 1023-c | Pope John XXII and the Peoples of Christendom (Language: English) Index terms: Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | The formation of collective political identities and the development of national allegiances in medieval Europe have received much attention in recent years. Often, such studies have concentrated on the role of conflict and the identification of an alien other in cementing ties of common belonging. By contrast, perhaps too little attention has been given to the identity-forming role of the inevitable processes of negotiation, compromise and mutual adjustment through which different - and even potentially antagonistic - groups came to subsist side-by-side. It is upon these processes that this panel will concentrate, drawing out common themes from three contrasting case-studies. |