IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 338: Irish Sea Networks in the Early Middle Ages
Monday 3 July 2023, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Irish Sea in the Middle Ages Research Network |
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| Organiser: | Marios Costambeys, Department of History, University of Liverpool |
| Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Thomas, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 338-a | Intellectual Networks between the Irish Sea World and Continental Europe around 800: The Feast of All Saints (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Liturgy |
| Paper 338-b | O Germane, Where Art Thou?: St Germanus of Auxerre in the Earliest Insular Traditions (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography |
| Paper 338-c | Queens and Connections around the Irish Sea, 950-1050 (Language: English) Index terms: Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Arising from the growing recognition that the regions around the Irish Sea are central to the history of the whole of the British Isles in the early middle ages, this session examines three manifestations of highly active networks in the Irish Sea zone, in liturgy, a saint's cult, and female royal careers. The intensity of these entanglements, in a zone in which identity, culture, language, and political allegiance were all particularly fluid, encourages us to ignore anachronistic national boundaries and to emphasize the connectivity that shaped early medieval culture. |