IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 629: Ways through the Minefield: Research on Medieval Ethnicity between Constructivism and Essentialism
Tuesday 10 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Promotionsverbund 'Osten und Westen, 400-600', Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen |
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Organisers: | Timo Kirschberger, Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Christian Stadermann, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen |
Moderator/Chair: | Alheydis Plassmann, Abteilung für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
Paper 629-a | Writing Frankish Past: History and Law under Merovingian Rule (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Law, Mentalities |
Paper 629-b | The Image of Goths in the Chronicle of the So-Called Fredegar (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
Paper 629-c | Ethnogenesis in the Latin East: Layers of Identity (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
Abstract | The discourse on ethnic identity is one that has produced heated debates far beyond the groves of academia and has therefore been likened to a minefield by sociologist Anthony D. Smith. Approaches to the topic vary widely between the two extremes of essentialism and constructivism. In this session the speakers will present their own ways of dealing with the phenomenon of ethnic identity in the Middle Ages and use their work on the Merovingians, the Goths and the Crusader States as examples. |