IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1539: Pushing the Boundaries: Normans across the Sea, I - Crossing the Channel
Thursday 9 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
Organisers: | Philippa Byrne, St John's College, University of Oxford Caitlin Ellis, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
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Moderator/Chair: | Caitlin Ellis, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
Paper 1539-a | Ad Pevensae: Destination Pevensey Castle, 28 September 1066 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Secular, Maritime and Naval Studies, Military History |
Paper 1539-b | Pagan Tides: Control of the Sea in Dudo's De moribus et actis primorum Normanniae ducum and Fulbert's Vita Sancti Romani (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1539-c | Environmental Considerations of the Norman Invasion in 1066 (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Maritime and Naval Studies |
Abstract | The three sessions in the 'Normans across the Sea' series examine how the sea can be used to define and/or deconstruct ideas of Norman borders and Norman identity. Session 1, 'Crossing the Channel', unpacks the archaeological, literary, and historical significance of the Channel as both boundary and highway. Brodie and Bowden discuss the anchorage and castle at Pevensey, a base of operations in 1066, considering whether its true significance was military or symbolic. Cross examines the meaning of control over the channel in early Norman chronicles, and how water was used to define Norman territory and Norman Christian identity. Tyson's paper addresses the environmental and physical reality of crossing the channel, considering how the (often difficult) experience of sea travel shaped Norman politics. |