IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1208: Texts and Identities, III: Anglo-Saxon Connections
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies, Universiteit Utrecht / Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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| Organisers: | E. T. Dailey, School of History, University of Leeds Gerda Heydemann, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien / Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien |
| Moderator/Chair: | Ian N. Wood, School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 1208-a | The Vita Gregorii and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Anglo-Saxon Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Political Thought |
| Paper 1208-b | Bede and the People of Kent: Is there an Origo Gentis Cantuariorum? (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought |
| Paper 1208-c | The English Connection: Columbanians across the Channel (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Scholarship has become increasingly aware that the Anglo-Saxons have too often been treated as a case apart, with the experiences in Britain distinguished sharply from those in the other former imperial provinces. This session seeks to explore Anglo-Saxon connections to the broader world of Late Antiquity, and the cultural and intellectual developments that took place on the Continent during the same period. Yaniv Fox reminds us that Columbanian monasticism was a two-way street, while Erin Thomas Dailey and Alexander Brämer call attention to the fact that group identity in Britain was as diverse, fluid, and open-ended as it was elsewhere in the West. |