IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 236: Challenging Nationalism(s) and the Medieval Border: Ludlow, Arras, Inchcolm, Tournai
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Matthew Siôn Lampitt, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics/ St John's College University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Emma Campbell, Department of French Studies, University of Warwick |
| Paper 236-a | Locating Ludlow: Rereading the Works of the 'Harley Scribe' (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 236-b | Between France and Flanders: The Post-Revolutionary Making of Medieval Arras (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music |
| Paper 236-c | The 14th-Century Office for St Columba as a Musical Borderland between Scotland and Europe (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Music |
| Paper 236-d | Taming a Rebel: The City of Tournai (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Abstract | This interdisciplinary panel of early-career researchers bases its analyses on a series of border centres and regions across north-western Europe, namely: Ludlow, Arras, Inchcolm, and Tournai. Medieval borderland centres such as these are all too often over-written by the post-medieval nation states into which they eventually become assimilated, and this nationalising move frequently inflects readings of such centres' cultural products. From variously literary and musicological perspectives, our analyses attend to the ways in which these centres and their cultural products disrupt teleological narratives of nation-state development, complicating, problematising, and frustrating notions of the 'national', of nationalism(s), and of national identity. |