IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 723: Critical Border Studies, III: Nationalisms in Crisis
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | Medieval March of Wales Project (MOWLIT), Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
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| Organiser: | Matt Lampitt, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
| Moderator/Chair: | Helen Fulton, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
| Paper 723-a | Networking the March in Fouke le Fitz Waryn (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan and Local History |
| Paper 723-b | Taming a Rebel: The City of Tournai (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan and Social History |
| Paper 723-c | Negotiating Nationalisms in Occitan Epic (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan and Social History |
| Abstract | This is the third of four sessions exploring the role that borders play in managing or inciting crisis, whether political, social, linguistic or emotional. This panel explores the ways in which borderland literary texts and cultures negotiate and challenge notions of the national, of national identity, and of nationalism. Moving between the borderlands of England and Wales, France and the Burgundian Netherlands, and France and Occitania, our papers explore how works from such regions problematise national(ist) narratives of literary history, philology, and politico-cultural geography. As such, the panel invites further critical reflection on the category of the national in medieval Europe, as well as on post-medieval nationalising discourses that have not only shaped our disciplines but continue to instrumentalise the medieval past today. |