IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 217: The Medieval Landscape / Seascape, II: Landscapes of 'the Other' and Identity
Monday 3 July 2017, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Landscape Research Group, Oxford |
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| Organisers: | Karl Christian Alvestad, Department of History, University of Winchester Kimm Curran, History Lab+, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sam Turner, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, Newcastle University |
| Paper 217-a | Where There's a Well There's a Way: Old English -ingas Group Identities and Negotiating Control of Land and Water in Early Anglo-Saxon England (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History, Social History |
| Paper 217-b | 'Secret and distant freaks': Constructing the Irish Other through the Landscape (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History, Political Thought |
| Paper 217-c | Archaeological Approaches to Otherness: The Mountain as an Alternative to Monastic Communities in the Early Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Ecclesiastical History, Monasticism, Religious Life |
| Abstract | Writing about the medieval landscape and environment has a rich and long tradition and is an area in which many of the disciplines that comprise medieval studies have made significant contributions. Scholars working on ideas of the landscape, concepts of space, and place as well as in the developing field of environmental humanities have added to our theoretical framework for understanding people's relationships with the environment in the past. This session focuses on the idea of the 'other' and 'otherness' in settlement, places of the past, and how the landscape was used to construct ideas of ethnicity and identity. |