IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1328: Creating the 'Self' - Creating the 'Other', III: The 'Other' Wider World in the 9th-12th Centuries
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Daniel Brown, Historisches Institut, Universität zu Köln |
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Moderator/Chair: | Alheydis Plassmann, Sonderforschungsbereich 1167 'Macht und Herrschaft - Vormoderne Konfigurationen in transkultureller Perspektive', |
Paper 1328-a | Otherness in the Norman Narrative (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities, Social History |
Paper 1328-b | Otherness and Comparative Economic Development in Late Anglo-Saxon England and Heian Japan (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - General, Mentalities |
Paper 1328-c | Expanding the Canon: Loricae Outside of Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Mentalities, Religious Life |
Abstract | Scholars have set the European Middle Ages as distinctly different from the wider world and its history, tending to an isolationist view of the medieval world. The same principle has been applied to medieval principalities, creating the illusion that they had zero contact with other cultures further away. Comparing developments, culture, and concepts, however, may lead to a distinct other picture: one of contact, adaption, culture-crossing, and intercultural negotiation of the 'Self' and the 'Other' as well as identical aspects otherwise unknown. |