IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 215: Medieval Irish Borders: European Connections, I
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Trinity College Dublin |
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| Organiser: | Stephen Hewer, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Stephen Hewer, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Paper 215-a | The Culture of Peregrinatio among the Bretons and the Irish, c. 600-900 (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Religious Life |
| Paper 215-b | Justifying Borders: Some Unionist and Loyalist Readings of Medieval Irish Literature in Northern Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Celtic, Political Thought |
| Paper 215-c | Irish and European: Early Medieval Identities (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Celtic, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Abstract | This series of sessions examines medieval Irish borders. The first session covers early medieval Irish people crossing borders. These papers consider the Europeanness of early medieval Irish people and to early medieval Irish people. The first paper compares the practice of peregrinatio in Brittany and Ireland, and the respective attitudes toward peregrini. The second paper re-evaluates the interpretation of early medieval Irish literature (the Táin, Ulster Cycle tales, and the Lebhor Gabála) as 'Nationalistic', and proposes a 'Unionist' reading of them. The third paper examines the European identity of the early medieval Irish learned class in comparison to the traditional Island-wide identity. |