IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 709: Regional Identities in the Middle Ages: Cohesion, Solidarity, Community
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Zsuzsanna Papp Reed, Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Zsuzsanna Papp Reed, Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Paper 709-a | Memories of Migration: Mnemonic Communities and Supraregional Identities in the Anglo-Norman World (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Historiography - Modern Scholarship |
| Paper 709-b | Kingship and Nation in the Age of Alfred: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Related Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English, Law, Political Thought |
| Paper 709-c | Defining the Community: Maimonides, Jewish Orthodoxy, and Persecution in a Stateless Society Index (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
| Abstract | The session brings together papers looking at different European communities with a transnational approach. Benjamin Pohl will explore Orderic Vitalis's chronicles as vehicles of mediating collective and cultural memories of self-identification of the migrating Norman people, and Francis Leneghan's paper will discuss the gradual movement away from regional identity towards a sense of nation by examining the contribution of new, Christian ideas about kingship to the emerging idea of national cohesion in writings associated with King Alfred. |