Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Barrau, Julie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How did medieval people define themselves? And how did they balance their identities as individuals with the demands of their communities? Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages intertwines the study of identities with current scholarship to reveal their multi-layered, sometimes contradictory dimensions. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from legal texts to hagiographies and biblical exegesis, and diverse cultural and social approaches, this volume enriches our understanding of medieval people's identities - as defined by themselves and by others, as individuals and as members of groups and communities. It adopts a complex and wide-ranging understanding of what constituted 'identities' beyond family and regional or national belonging, such as social status, gender, age, literacy levels, and displacement. New figures and new concepts of 'identities' thus emerge from the dialogue between the chapters, through an approach based on life-histories, lived experience, ethnogenesis, theories of diaspora, cultural memory and generational change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009064231
• Artikelnr.: 66176471

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Julie Barrau and David Bates; Part I. Entwined Lives and
Multiple Identities; 1. Mother and Motherhood in the Vita et passio
Willelmi Norwicensis Miri Rubin; 2. Prayer for the Dead: Women, Death, and
Salvation Fiona J. Griffiths; 3. Authority over Men and the Distribution of
Property: Two Readings of William of Malmesbury Mathieu Arnoux; 4. Flemish
Settlement and Maritime Traffic in the South-West Peninsula of Britain,
c.1050-1250 Julia Crick; 5. Cistercians and the Laity in Twelfth- and
Thirteenth-Century Upper Normandy Elma Brenner; 6. Memory and Trauma: the
Strange Case of Walchelin the Priest Patricia Skinner; 7. New Charters of
the Empress Matilda, with Particular Reference to her Reception at
Gloucester in 1139 Nicholas Vincent; 8. Female Identity before 1250: the
Preudefemme David Crouch; Part II. Historians, Lawyers and Exegetes:
Writing Lives and Identities 9. Ademar of Chabannes and the Normans: An
Outline of a New Reading Pierre Bauduin; 10. Lives, Identities, and the
Historians of the Normans David Bates; 11. Ruth in the Twelfth Century:
Medieval Takes on the Multiple Identities of a Foreign Converted Widow from
Scripture Julie Barrau; 12. Jacob and Esau and the Interplay of Jewish and
Christian Identities in the Middle Ages Anna Sapir Abulafia; 13. Identity,
Gender and History in Wace's Roman de Rou and Roman de Brut Leonie Hicks;
14. Glanvill: Language, Law, and Identity John Hudson; 15. Dunstan, Edgar,
and the History of Not-So-Recent Events George Garnett.