IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1334: Representations of Memory, Identity, and Nobility in Medieval Europe
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Department of History, Texas A&M University, Texarkana |
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| Organiser: | Craig M. Nakashian, Department of History, Texas A&M University, Texarkana |
| Moderator/Chair: | Craig M. Nakashian, Department of History, Texas A&M University, Texarkana |
| Paper 1334-a | Memory and the West March: Identity in the Lanercost Chronicle (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Local History, Mentalities, Monasticism |
| Paper 1334-b | Reading between the Lines: The Cid of the Cantar and His Nobility (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Mentalities, Military History |
| Paper 1334-c | A Warrior Identity?: Late Anglo-Saxon Bishops and the Battlefield (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Middle English, Mentalities, Military History |
| Abstract | The question of how medieval concepts of identity were created and supported has long been studied by scholars (most famously Benedict Anderson in Imagined Communities) and this panel continues the investigation into various medieval conceptions of identity, including (but not limited to) those pertaining to geography (local, regional, national), religion, gender, and social or cultural status (noble and/or chivalric). We have assembled three papers that examine these topics with an eye towards unpacking the tensions inherent in the construction of identity, and the sources that illuminate them. Our papers look at questions of identity and memory from a range of geographical, temporal, and cultural perspectives, and utilise evidence from a variety of fields. |