IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1128: Creating the 'Self' - Creating the 'Other', I: Gender, Identity, and Material Culture in the 9th-12th Centuries
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Daniel Brown, Historisches Institut, Universität zu Köln |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Björn Weiler, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
| Paper 1128-a | 'Not born, but made': Maleness, Masculinity, and the Cross-Gendered Grave Phenomenon in Early Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Gender Studies |
| Paper 1128-b | 'Wa þære þeode þe hæfð ælðeodigne cyng': The Foreign and the Familiar in Later Anglo-Saxon Writings on Masculinity and Kingship (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Paper 1128-c | Naming the Other: The Anthroponymics of Inclusion and Exclusion in a Medieval Community (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Geography and Settlement Studies, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Constructs and concepts of 'Others' and 'Otherness' are already found in the Middle Ages. Inside a community, the definition of 'Others' might run along lines like names or gender: Names can be indicators for political or socio-economical changes and developments. Something similar applies to concepts of gender: the concepts of masculinity, for example, are displayed in burial rites and grave kits, but also in written sources; both shaping the view on the 'Other' as they also automatically create a 'Self' for a group or individual. |