IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1102: Early Medieval Britain: The Britons in Context
Wednesday 6 July 2016, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Ben Guy, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Charles Insley, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester |
| Paper 1102-a | The Painted Peoples: Images of Britishness and Pictishness in Some Late Antique Texts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Mentalities, Onomastics |
| Paper 1102-b | The Welsh in Context: Perceptions of Peoples in Asser's De rebus gestis Ælfredi (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Onomastics |
| Paper 1102-c | The Anglo-Saxon Background to the Welsh Genealogical Tradition (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Abstract | Early medieval Britain was a melting pot of cultures, languages, and ethnicities. One self-identifying group was the Britons, who dwelt in a wide arc of western Britain stretching from the firth of Forth in the north to the Cornish peninsula in the south. Brittonic culture, language, and identity underwent dramatic changes during this period, partially as a consequence of continued interaction with the other peoples of Britain. This session attempts to explore aspects of the nature of this interaction as well as the ways in which it was perceived by contemporaries, focusing particularly on British relations with the Anglo-Saxons and the Picts. |