IMC 2017: Sessions

Session 1514: In Other Words: Redrawing Frameworks Using the 'Global Middle Ages' as Method, I

Thursday 6 July 2017, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	AHRC Network 'Defining the Global Middle Ages'
Organiser:	Naomi Standen, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA), University of Birmingham
Moderator/Chair:	Naomi Standen, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CeSMA), University of Birmingham
Paper 1514-a	Making Identities?: Clerical Sources in Global History (Language: English) Amanda Power, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Monasticism, Pagan Religions, Religious Life
Paper 1514-b	Eating Together, Eating Apart: Sojourning 'Others' and Commensal Practices in 12th-Century Malabar (Language: English) Elizabeth Lambourn, School of Humanities, De Montfort University, Leicester Index terms: Daily Life, Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Paper 1514-c	Acculturation, Encounter, or Something Else?: The Life and Writings of Francesco Suriano, a Merchant, Mendicant, and Missionary in the Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1500 (Language: English) Catherine Holmes, Faculty of History, University of Oxford Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Social History
Abstract	Global medievalists seek meaning from positions within a context of globalised and post-colonial modernity, inescapably aware of troubling and persistent power relationships - economic, political, and intellectual - between Global North and South. But in this framing, modernity also exerts power over a medieval Other. The papers in these panels seek to create spaces where the medieval can speak back to the hegemonic power of the modern, using the Global Middle Ages as a method through which to propose readings of global medieval cases that unpick and unpack standard concepts and vocabulary such as encounter, identity, the local, nomadism, religion, and the state.