IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 815: Conflict and Integration: Crossing Medieval Borders, IV - Geographical Borders, the Medieval British Isles, and the 'Other'
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Queen's University Belfast |
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| Organiser: | Elisa Ramazzina, School of Arts, English & Languages, Queen's University Belfast |
| Moderator/Chair: | Francis Leneghan, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
| Paper 815-a | Early Medieval Welsh Ethnogenesis: A Story Carved in Parchment and Stone? (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Epigraphy, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 815-b | Monsters at the Borders: The Early Medieval English Wonders of the East and World Maps (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 815-c | Punishing Wrongdoing and the Border of the Danelaw (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law |
| Paper 815-d | The Circulation and Integration of Medical Knowledge across Borders: The Old Norse Materia medica (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Medicine |
| Abstract | This fourth session examines the role of international, internal and regional medieval British borders and their relationship with the 'Other' from different perspectives. Paper -a explores early medieval Welsh ethnogenesis through epigraphic and historiographic documents, focussing on the porous borders of Britons' ethnic self-perception. Paper -b examines the relation of borders, monstrosity, and 'otherness' in the Old English versions of the 'Wonders of the East' in both texts and illustrations, comparing it to relevant medieval English world maps. Paper -c explores what it meant to cross the legal boundary of the Danelaw, particularly in the domain of criminal justice, demonstrating that criminal law was applied in decisively different ways depending upon which side of the border one was on. Finally, Paper -d aims at framing Icelandic materia medica as a pan-European healing system, strongly rooted on Judeo-Christian liturgy and providing insights into a possible English-Norwegian stream of circulation of medical knowledge in medieval Iceland, representing a way for Icelanders to further integrate into Christendom and to foster a mutual dialogue with the Continent and England. |