IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 234: Mapping Cultural Geographies between Past and Present: Burials in Early Irish Literature
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Sarah Künzler, School of Humanities (Celtic & Gaelic) University of Glasgow |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Christina Cleary, School of Celtic Studies Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies |
| Paper 234-a | Textual Graveyards: Inventing the Dead and (Re)Drawing Borders in Medieval Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Mentalities |
| Paper 234-b | Quis est sepultus hic?: Burials and the Boundary between the Past and the Present in Medieval Irish Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 234-c | Exploring Pasts and Places: Burial Monuments in Early Irish Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Mentalities, Onomastics |
| Abstract | References to ancestral burials in medieval Irish literature are related to various borderlines: they can be linked to tribal borders, they are emblematic of attitudes to the border between life and death, and they can blur the distinction between the pagan past and the Christian present. The papers explore the reflective engagements with borders which are embedded in early Irish texts and other North Atlantic literatures. They argue that in these literatures, borders can thus reveal profound human concerns about the spatial organisation of knowledge and social orders. |