IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 315: Medieval Irish Borders: European Connections, II
Monday 6 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Trinity College Dublin |
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| Organiser: | Stephen Hewer, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Seán Duffy, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Paper 315-a | The Border of Bias: Reconsidering Powerful Women in 13th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Law, Women's Studies |
| Paper 315-b | John, dominus Hibernie, and the Gifts of Irish Kings (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Monasticism, Political Thought |
| Paper 315-c | A Hard Pale or a Soft Pale?: The Pale Ditch and Border Identities in Medieval Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This series of sessions examines medieval Irish borders. The second sessions covers late medieval Irish people crossing borders. These papers consider the modern constructs and conceptualisations of 'late' (post 1000) medieval Ireland. The first paper questions the traditional conception of medieval women’s legal status with a close examination of the agency of Isolde Pantulf (1170-1230), who was a noble woman with lands in England and Ireland. The second paper traces John of England's confirmations of Gaelic kings' gifts to Cistercian houses in the 1180-90s, and analyses the wider implications of these grants in regard to John's attitude towards the houses and Gaelic kings. The third paper interrogates the conception of the 14th-century Pale as a real, physical, and cultural boundary. |