IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 1213: Teaching Medieval National Identity: Opportunity or Problem?
Wednesday 15 July 2009, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | HEA Subject Centre for History, Classics & Archaeology |
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Organiser: | Andrew P. Roach, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow |
Moderator/Chair: | Andrew P. Roach, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow |
Paper 1213-a | Wallace, Bruce, and the Wars of National Identity as Fought by Contemporary Under-16s (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Paper 1213-b | Who Are Those Scots?: Teaching about National Consciousness during the Wars of Independence (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Paper 1213-c | The Middle Ages and Modern Polish Identity (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Abstract | The perception that national origins or identity lie in the Middle Ages attracts many students to the medieval period. Moreover, 'national history' is a strong feature of school and university curricula in Europe and beyond. However, medieval identities are a complex and controversial subject for modern scholars. This session brings together two teachers of Scottish history at school and university respectively, with a historian and archaeologist of Central Europe whose book on Poland's origins challenged many cherished features of a national myth. |