Lives, identities and histories in the central Middle Ages / edited by Julie Barrau, University of Cambridge, David Bates, University of East Anglia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barrau, Julie, editor, author.

Bates, David, 1945- editor, author.

Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C., honoree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--England--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Women.

Middle Ages--Historiography.

Middle Ages.

Civilization, Medieval--Historiography.

Civilization, Medieval.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Identification (Religion)--History--To 1500.

Identification (Religion).

Identity (Psychology)--History--To 1500.

Identity (Psychology).

Women--France--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.

Great Britain--History--Medieval period, 1066-1485.

Great Britain.

France--History--Medieval period, 987-1515.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 326 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

'Mother and Motherhood in the Vita et passio Willelmi Norwicensis' / Miri Rubin

'Prayer for the dead: women, death, and salvation' / Fiona J. Griffiths

'Authority over men and the distribution of property: two readings of William of Malmesbury' / Mathieu Arnoux

'Flemish settlement and maritime traffic in the south-west peninsula of Britain, c.1050-1250' / Julia Crick

'Cistercians and the laity in twelfth and thirteenth-century Upper Normandy' / Elma Brenner

'Memory and trauma: the strange case of Walchelin the Priest' / Patricia Skinner

'New charters of the Empress Matilda, with particular reference to her reception at Gloucester in 1139' / Nicholas Vincent

'Female identity before 1250: the Preudefemme' / David Crouch

'Ademar of Chabannes and the Normans: an outline of a new reading' / Pierre Bauduin

'Lives, identities, and the historians of the Normans' / David Bates

'Ruth in the twelfth century: medieval takes on the multiple identities of a foreign converted widow from Scripture' / Julie Barrau

'Jacob and Esau and the interplay of Jewish and Christian identities in the Middle Ages' / Anna Sapir Abulafia

'Identity, gender and history in Wace's Roman de Rou and Roman de Brut' / Leonie Hicks

'Glanvill: language, law, and identity' / John Hudson

'Dunstan, Edgar, and the history of not-so-recent events' / George Garnett

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Sep 2021).

ISBN:

1-009-06423-1

1-009-06441-X

1-316-67600-5

OCLC:

1273977386