IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 113: Conceptualising Borders in the Middle Ages, I: Kinship, Culture, and Kingdom
Monday 6 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval & Ancient Research Centre (MARCUS), University of Sheffield |
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| Organisers: | James Chetwood, Department of History, University of Sheffield Harry Mawdsley, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
| Moderator/Chair: | Charles West, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
| Paper 113-a | Blood and Bone?: Defining the Borders of Kinship in Early Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Law, Social History |
| Paper 113-b | Perceptions and Construction of Cultural Boundaries in Early Medieval Lindsey (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - General, Daily Life |
| Paper 113-c | Strangers in Strange Lands: Forced Movement and Punishment within and without the Post-Roman Regna (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Social History |
| Abstract | How did medieval communities create and preserve social, physical and metaphorical boundaries? These three papers will use a range of evidence and methodological approaches to examine how boundaries at state, community, and familial levels were used to forge identities, exclude outsiders, and cement social positions. The speakers will explore how these boundaries affected daily life in the early medieval period, illustrating how kinship was defined and conceptualised in Anglo-Saxon England, how dress accessories were used to display identity in the Kingdom of Lindsey, and how post-Roman legislators and judges punished offenders by transporting them across political and geographical borders. |