IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 213: Conceptualising Borders in the Middle Ages, II: Creating and Crossing Community Boundaries
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| 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: | Máirín MacCarron, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
| Paper 213-a | The Manor Court and the Boundaries of the Village Community (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History, Social History |
| Paper 213-b | Exploring Social Boundaries: Family Names and Status in the Later Medieval Settlement (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Onomastics, Social History |
| Paper 213-c | My Name Is Not My Name: Crossing Onomastic Boundaries in Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English, Onomastics, 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 'national', regional and village level were used to forge identities, exclude outsiders and cement social positions. The speakers will explore how these boundaries impacted the lives of community members, illustrating how villagers used manorial boundaries to protect themselves from lordly interference, how individuals understood the metaphorical boundaries that separated people of different social status, and how individuals negotiated shifting identities as they crossed the boundaries between communities. |