IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 720: Constructing Identities, Then and Now: Ethnicity, Nation, and Empire in the Early to High Middle Ages
Tuesday 5 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Eric Wolever, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Harry Munt, Department of History, University of York |
| Paper 720-a | Gildas and Giddens: Structuration Theory, Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, and Contemporary Cultural Politics (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Political Thought |
| Paper 720-b | Spatializing History: The Cardinal Points and the Location of Empire in the 12th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 720-c | Apocalypse Now: A Man and His Horse (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Sculpture |
| Abstract | This panel will evaluate the bases on which collective identities were constructed in the early to high Middle Ages, broadly construed. Harland’s paper will interrogate the use of political and sociological theory applied to archaeology in the historiographical construction of ethnic identity. Wolever’s will look at the use of geographical categories in the construction of historical empires in the 12th century. Stoner’s will examine the use of Apocalypse imagery in the construction of kingship in regional identity. It will approach these questions from an interdisciplinary perspective, remaining attentive to the relationship of the medieval and the modern in this process. |