IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 517: Fashioning and Refashioning Identities: Narratives of People and Places in Late Medieval Canterbury
Tuesday 10 July 2007, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Canterbury Centre for Medieval & Tudor Studies, University of Kent |
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Organiser: | Sheila Sweetinburgh, Canterbury Centre for Medieval & Early Modern, University of Kent |
Moderator/Chair: | Catherine T. Richardson, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham |
Paper 517-a | Manufactured Identities and Civic Policy: A Comparison of Two Late Medieval Towns (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Local History, Social History |
Paper 517-b | Looking to the Past: The St Thomas Pageant in Late Medieval Canterbury (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Local History, Social History |
Paper 517-c | Early Antiquarian Descriptions of Canterbury (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Local History, Social History |
Abstract | Taking as its starting point the means whereby people seek to produce narratives about themselves and their surroundings, this session examines the construction of personal identity and that of the city of Canterbury. Using ideas from cultural anthropology, the papers provide innovative insights into Canterbury's development during a difficult period in the city's history. Merry, adopting a comparative approach, investigates the self-fashioning of identity by members of urban elites, Sweetinburgh considers the way Canterbury's leading citizens sought to fashion their city's identity and Bartram explores the narratives produced by early antiquarians who, as outsiders, envisaged Canterbury's identity from a different perspective. |