2017

3–6 July: International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds

The Borders and Borderlands research network ran three sessions at the Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2017. Speakers and papers are listed here:

Borders and Borderlands in Medieval and Early Modern Europe I: Cultural Identity and Otherness on the Medieval Borders of Wales
Paper a: Dylan Foster Evans, Cardiff University, ‘Reforming the Welsh Border: Sir John Price and his Commonplace Book’
Paper b: Gwen Seabourne, University of Bristol, ‘A Hereford Hanging: Records, Reports, and Responses’
Paper c: Jonathan M. Wooding, University of Sydney, ‘The Sea as Borderland in Early-Medieval Celtic Britain’

Borders and Borderlands in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, II: Nations and Allies in Late Medieval Britain
Paper a: Mark Ormrod, University of York, ‘Attitudes to Immigrants in Later Medieval England: A Microhistorical Approach’
Paper b: Daniel Davies, University of Pennsylvania, ‘Transnational Exchange and the Auld Alliance: The Case of the Liber Pluscardensis’
Paper c: Helen Fulton, University of Bristol, ‘Fighting for England, Winning in Wales: Political Poetry and Cross-Border Factionalism in Fifteenth-Century Wales’

Borders and Borderlands in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, III: Intellectual Boundaries
Paper a: Ann Giletti, University of Oxford, ‘Boundaries of Science: Scholastic Branding of Gentile Philosophy as Heresy’
Paper b: Teresa Witcombe, University of Exeter, ‘Theology over Enemy Borderlines: Translating Ibn Tumart in 13th-century Toledo’
Paper c: Anke Holdenried, University of Bristol, ‘Negotiating the Boundaries of Time: The Hebrew Prophets and 12th-century Christian Learning’

9 June, ‘Border Spaces and Places‘, University of Bristol

Plenary speaker: Professor Keith Lilley (Queen’s University Belfast)

31 March, ‘Borders Workshop‘, University of Bristol

Plenary speaker: Professor David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)