IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1346: Social Groups and Their Boundaries
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
Moderator/Chair: | Maroula Perisanidi, Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Nottingham |
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Paper 1346-a | The Borders of Senatorial Identity: Macrobius Ambrosius Theodosius as a Social Agent of Identity Construction (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Philosophy, Social History |
Paper 1346-b | Imagined Borders and Peasant Identity during the Middle Byzantine Period (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Social History |
Paper 1346-c | 'With modest men they modest be, with sober they be graue, / With lewd and naughtie companie, they also play the knaue': Minstrels and Class Boundaries in Renaissance England (Language: English) Index terms: Literacy and Orality, Music, Performance Arts - General, Social History |
Abstract | Paper -a: Paper -b: Paper -c: This ability does not go unnoticed by contemporary commentators. Either writers of treatises on the art of music, fervent preachers of morality, or authors of popular characterologies, they all spare this matter a thought or two. In this paper I aim to present the contemporary opinions and views on minstrels and musicians, especially on their ability to move freely amongst all layers of society, as found in moral tracts, musical treatises or genres of cheap print; identifying specific tendencies in their representation connected to genres, and comparing these 'outsider' opinions with a self-reflective speech delivered by minstrels to minstrels. This might enlighten our view on the 16th, early 17th centuries' discourses on the (supposedly) amphibian lifestyle of these entertainers. |