IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 158: Anglo-British Borders in the Early Middle Ages, I: The Welsh and the English
Monday 6 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Ben Guy, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge Clare Stancliffe, Department of History, Durham University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Alex Woolf, St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews |
| Paper 158-a | Mercia, Northumbria, and the Britons in the 7th Century: A Re-Examination of the Welsh Evidence (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought |
| Paper 158-b | Boundaries of the Mind: Naming Other Peoples in Early Medieval Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Old English, Social History |
| Paper 158-c | Place-Names and Wat's Dyke (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Old English, Onomastics |
| Abstract | The first session in this series focuses on the relationship between the Britons of Wales and the Anglo-Saxons, with Thomas's paper investigating the Welsh poetic evidence and how this presents cross-border interaction, complemented by Thier's paper approaching the topic from an English linguistic perspective and examining the Old English usage of the terms 'British' versus 'Welsh', while Parsons examines both Welsh and English place-names along the line of Wat's Dyke, which may have formed (or followed) an early medieval Anglo-Welsh boundary. |