Social Identity in Early Medieval Britain (Studies in the Early History of Britain)
Andrew Tyrrell, William O. Frazer
Language: English
Pages: 298
ISBN: 0718500849
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Social identity is a concept od increasing importance in the social sciences. Here, the concept is applied to the often atheoretical realm of medieval studies. Each contributor focuses on a particular topic of early medieval identity - ethnicity, national identity, social location, subjectivity/personhood, political organization, kiship, the body, gender, age, proximity/regionality, memory and ideological systems. The result is a pioneering vision of medieval social identity and a challenge to some of the received general wisdoms about this period.
The Fatal Englishman : Three Short Lives
King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta
Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Enigmatic Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave
Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North
Exclusively, including belt/strap mounts, bone boxes, and tweezers. In addition, though, they share some objects only with females. These include Kentish disc brooches, coin pendants, silver disc pendants, other miscellaneous pendants, beads, bracelets, finger rings, glass objects, wooden boxes, silver workboxes, shears, keys, girdlehangers, spoons, iron diamonds, and silver rings. The only unique objects are weaving picks and annular brooches. Female/Males possess no unique objects which.
Was the nature of the society of the Danelaw'. 'People do not integrate and adopt the social structures and belief systems of others by a process of unconscious osmosis,' she says. Rather, 'real and relevant decisions must be made, survival strategies adopted, and resistance encountered. A consideration of this has been lacking from recent work on the Danelaw.' Hadley observes that there are but 150 or so loan words from Scandinavian languages in Old English, most of which relate to legal and.
Insights drawn from the Continent. Conclusion: Germanic kin? The material cultures which culture-historians link with the peoples named in Bede's one paragraph on the Germanic ancestors of the English were the product of actions taken in England in the sixth and seventh centuries. They were the product of interactions between emerging regional networks of power, both 'Anglo-Saxon' and 'British'. Their style was determined by late Roman forms associated with the authority of Rome and by memories.
Formulation of new questions and approaches. In short, a theorization of the subject is required. Much previous work on the Scandinavian settlement has been informed by a fairly limited understanding of the way in which social identity was constructed in the early medieval period. The traditional correlation of the scale of the Scandinavian settlement with the impact of the Scandinavians and the ethnicity of the inhabitants of the region is too simplistic to be useful. Many of the questions that.
Problems and some suggestions One of the fundamental errors which has plagued the study of ethnicity in early medieval studies is the equation of biology or material culture directly with an ethnic identity. Let us look closely at one example which has used skeletal remains in conjunction with documentary and material cultural evidence to reconstruct ethnicity as part of a wider study. Heinrich Harke has proposed that certain individuals in the AngloSaxon cemetery of Berinsfield, Wally Corner are.