IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 608: The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Leverhulme Trust / Medieval Research Centre, University of Leicester |
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| Organiser: | Joanna Story, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Joanna Story, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester |
| Paper 608-a | 'If I Should Return Home': Pilgrimage and Travel to, from, and in Early Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life |
| Paper 608-b | Reconsidering 'Primitive Old English' (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 608-c | What's in a Name?: The Genetic Legacy of the Vikings in the North of England (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Demography, Genealogy and Prosopography, Science |
| Abstract | 'The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain' is a major new interdisciplinary research programme at the University of Leicester which will investigate the impact of the movement of people in the distant past on the cultural, linguistic and population history of the British Isles. It will also examine the influence of ancient diasporas – remembered, suppressed or invented – on the construction of identities in Britain, past and present. This session presents three strands of our research, in history, historical linguistics, and genetics. The papers focus on early medieval England, but the methodologies applied have wider application to other periods and places. |