IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 722: Borders and the Construction of Identity in the Central and Late Middle Ages
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Susannah Bain, Faculty of History University of Oxford Teresa Barucci, Gonville & Caius College University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Susannah Bain, Faculty of History University of Oxford |
| Paper 722-a | The Proprietates Anglicorum: Political Satire, Borders, and Identity in 14th-Century France (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Social History |
| Paper 722-b | The Borders of Identity in Matthew Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Abstract | This session engages with how and why 'borders' of different kinds (such as geographical, political, and linguistic) were used in the construction of individual and group identities in the central and later Middle Ages. Paper A considers the use of different types of metaphorical borders in a 14th-century satirical prose written by a French scholar against the English (Teresa Barucci). Paper B considers the importance of metaphorical and physical borders in the construction of individual identity for the 13th-century English chronicler Matthew Paris (Bethany Summerfield). |