IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1724: Somewhere, Someday, Somehow: Imagined Borders in Narratives of Community, III
Thursday 9 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Research in Historiography & Historical Cultures, Aberystwyth University |
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| Organisers: | Kiri Kolt, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University Caitlin Naylor, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Abigail Monk, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University |
| Paper 1724-a | Near, Far, Wherever You Are: Spatialising Gender across Borders in Ibn Faḍlān’s Risala (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
| Paper 1724-b | Searching, Seek, and Destroy: Encountering the 'Other' in 12th-Century German Origin Stories (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
| Paper 1724-c | Walking the Line: Inhabiting the Borders of Gerald of Wales (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Session 3 (of 3): Borders have been a constant in human history, whether they were separating countries, estates or the verge between road and land. More elusive were the borders that existed only in the minds of those who created them. The limit of the known world and the barbarous North beyond, the veil between life and death, and the various kings whose rules divided time periods are just some examples of immaterial boundaries. This session aims to explore this concept of imagined borders with a particular focus on medieval narratives of community. |