IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 643: The Marches of Britain and Ireland, 1100-1400, II: Conflict and Conquest
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Medieval & Early Modern Research Initiative, Cardiff University / Welsh Chronicles Research Group, Bangor University |
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| Organisers: | Georgia Henley, Department of English / Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University Victoria Shirley, School of English, Communication & Philosophy, Cardiff University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Andy King, Department of History, University of Southampton |
| Paper 643-a | Gender and Frontier in the Medieval March of Wales (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Military History |
| Paper 643-b | Readers, Themes, Styles: Contextualising Gerald of Wales's Work in Welsh and Irish Frontiers and Disputes (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin |
| Paper 643-c | Constructing a Pele Tower: Fortified Towers in the Context of the Marches of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Local History, Military History |
| Abstract | This session is the second of four comparative sessions on the Marches of Britain and Ireland. This second session in this strand will examine the history of conflict and conquest between different peoples in the Marches. The first paper will examine aristocratic women's participation in conflict and the effects of a highly militarized society on male lordship in the March of Wales. The second paper will examine the relationship between the Welsh and Irish writings of Gerald of Wales and the conflicts at the edges of the Anglo-Norman kingdom in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. The third paper will discuss the origins and function of the tower house in 14th-century Northumberland and its surrounding border regions. |