IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1016: Crossing Boundaries: The Materiality of Medieval Boundaries and Borders in Northern Britain
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Aubrey Steingraber, Department of Archaeology, University of York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Aleksandra McClain, Department of Archaeology, University of York |
| Paper 1016-a | The Danelaw Boundary of the Late 9th Century: A Nation-State Model? (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1016-b | Communities of the Tweed: Power and Place on the Medieval Anglo-Scottish Border (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Computing in Medieval Studies, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1016-c | Coinage, Landscape, and Society in the Borderlands: Economy, Politics, and Identity in Scotland and Northern England, 1136-1603 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Economics - Trade, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Political borders in the medieval period were fluid zones of political and cultural interaction. They were places where warfare frequently concentrated, where local communities negotiated multiple administrative systems, and where national and local identities were heightened and entangled. Relatively little work has been conducted in Britain on the materiality of medieval political borders and boundaries. This session investigates material manifestations of borderland dynamics along two different medieval borders - the Anglo-Scottish border and the Danelaw. In doing so, it explores medieval territoriality and the development of British nation-states from a fresh material perspective while also evaluating methodologies used within the growing field of archaeological borderland studies. |