IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1607: Memory, Community, and Identity in High Medieval Northumbria, II
Thursday 4 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Dan Talbot, School of History, University of East Anglia |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Helen Birkett, Department of History, University of Exeter |
| Paper 1607-a | 1138 Revisited: Nation, Nature, and Memory in Aelred of Rievaulx's Battle of the Standard (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 1607-b | The Contested Identity of St Oswine of Tynemouth (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 1607-c | Remembering the Conqueror: Perspectives on William I from the 12th-Century North-East (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Local History, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | This pair of sessions explores the negotiation of community identity in the northeast of England in the 11-12th centuries and beyond, through the prisms of medieval historiography, hagiography, and homiletic. Different communities in Durham, Yorkshire, and Northumberland all sought to place their own stamp on the memory of the distant and more immediate Northumbrian past, and to argue for what it meant for regional and indeed 'national' identity in the politically and culturally changing present. The papers in this session consider those contested identities through a range of cases. Session I focuses on community memory within the single community of Durham, while Session II expands to explore the political memory and identity of the northeast more broadly. |