IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 844: Medievalism and Nationalism

Organiser:	Miriam Müller, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham
Moderator/Chair:	Andrew Elliott, Lincoln School of Film & Media, University of Lincoln
Paper 844-a	'Do you remember Macsen?': Yma O Hyd, Medievalism, and Welsh Nationalism (Language: English) Michael Evans, Faculty of Social Science, Delta College, Michigan Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Social History
Paper 844-b	The Far Right and Their Peasants: From Blood and Soil to Anastasia (Language: English) Miriam Müller, Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, University of Birmingham Index terms: Archives and Sources, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Social History
Paper 844-c	(Neo)Medievalism and Nationalism in Brazil: Nostalgia for a Foreign Past? (Language: English) Luiz Felipe Anchieta Guerra, Departamento de História, Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros, Brazil Index terms: Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Social History
Abstract	The papers in this session will bring together different perspectives and geo-political contexts of the relevance of medievalism to the expression and formation of ideas of nationalism, national identity as well as far right ideologies. A key aim of the session is that by looking at case studies of Brazil, Wales, and Germany will allow interesting comparative observations to be made.