CONNECT organized two sessions at the Leeds International Medieval Congress entitled «Early Medieval Societies on the Edges: From Britain to the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond» and focusing on different meanings of ‘borders’ in early medieval European societies. The sessions featured the contributions of four project members who were joined by Prof. Rory Naismith of the University of Cambridge and Dr Rebecca Thomas (Cardiff).
Early Medieval Societies on the Edges: From Britain to the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond–I
Date/Time: Wednesday 6 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
Chair: Rory Naismith
Paper A
«Anglo-Saxon Perceptions and Representations of Europe»
Francesca Tinti
Paper B
«Griffin se Wylisca cing': 11th-Century Welsh Kings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle»
Rebecca Thomas
Paper C
«Beyond the Border: Communities, Violence, and the Construction of Territory to the North and South of the Duero River»
Aitor Armendáriz Bosque
Early Medieval Societies on the Edges: From Britain to the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond II
Date/Time: Wednesday 6 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
Chair: Francesca Tinti
Paper A
«León and Pamplona within the Islamicate World?: Cross-Cultural Policy, Diplomacy, and War in the Christian Kingdoms and the Umayyad Caliphate of Cordova»
Eneko López Martínez de Marigorta
Paper B
«Inheriting on the Border of al-Andalus: Luxury Items and Family Memoria»
Andrea Aparicio Lozano
Paper C
«Lords, Peasants, and Money: Societies on the Economic Edge in the 10th-11th Centuries»
Rory Naismith
CONNECT
Societies on the Edges:
A Combinative Approach to Cross-Cultural Connections in Early Medieval Western Europe
