IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 509: National Identity and Medieval History Writing, I: Landscape and Climate
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
Organisers: | Henry Marsh, Department of History, University of Exeter Trevor Russell Smith, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
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Moderator/Chair: | Daniel Franke, Department of History, Richard Bland College of William & Mary, Virginia |
Paper 509-a | Urban and Rural Landscapes in Narratives of the Glyndŵr Revolt, 1400-1415 (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Social History |
Paper 509-b | Something in the Airs: Physicality, Global, National, and Sub-National Identity in Courtly Literature of the Latin West in the 12th and 13th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities, Political Thought |
Paper 509-c | Representing Identity in a Maritime Landscape: Vikings, Normans, and Hybridity in the Irish Sea (Language: English) |
Abstract | This series of four sessions examines the relationship between concepts of ethnic and national identity in the historical literature of the Middle Ages. Papers in this session engage with how national identities were imagined through the landscape and climate. The first paper examines how chroniclers constructed identity in Owain Glyndwr's revolt through landscapes. The second paper considers how both national and regional identities were imagined through theories of climate, suggesting that the disparities between local and national characteristics complicate the conception of the relationship between the environment and the body. The third paper explores the representation of Normans and Scandinavians in the setting of the maritime landscape of the Irish Sea, and assesses whether the hybrid identities apparent in the region were reflected in historical writing. |