Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities in Medieval Europe
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University
Lublin 15-17. 10.2014

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The Abstracts

15⁰⁰ Opening speech – Dean of the Department of Humanities Robert Litwiński, Research project leader Andrzej Pleszczyński

 

Panel I: Dynasty and State

15³⁰-16⁰⁰ Huw Pryce (University of Bangor, Wales) - Dynastic Identity in XIIth- and XIIIth-century Wales;

16⁰⁰-16³⁰ Dániel Bagi (Pécsi Tudományegyetem, Hungary) - Genealogical fictions in traditions of the Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Ruthenian dynasties in the 11th-13th centuries;

16³⁰-17⁰⁰ Zbigniew Dalewski (IH PAN Warsaw) - Strategies of creating dynastic identity in Central Europe in the 10th-13th centuries;

17⁰⁰-17³⁰ Discussion

17³⁰-17⁴⁵ Coffee break

17⁴⁵-18¹⁵ Tomasz Tarczyński (UMCS Lublin) - The King and the Saint against the Scots. The shaping of English national identity in the XIIth-century narrative of king Athelstan’s victory over his northern neighbours. (Miracula s. Johannis episcopi Eboracensis);

18¹⁵-18⁴⁵ Wojciech Michalski (Wojewódzka Biblioteka im. H. Łopacińskiego w Lublinie) Creating knightly identities? Scottish lords and their leaders in the narratives about great moments in community’s history (between John Barbour’s The Bruce and Harry’s The Wallace);

18⁴⁵-19¹⁵ Discussion

 

Panel I: Dynasty and State, pt. 2

9³⁰-10⁰⁰ Karol Szejgiec (UMCS Lublin) - The identity of the secular elites in the late Middle Ages based on the example of ‘Gesta consulum Andegavorum’ (from the mid-12th c.);

10⁰⁰-10³⁰ Georg Jostkleigrewe (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany) - The role of the expression ‘rex imperator in regno suo’ in creating the identity of the political elite in late medieval France;;

10³⁰-11⁰⁰ Tatiana Vikul (Ukraine’s National Academy of Science, Kiev) - “Grazhane / Ludie” (People) and “Bojars” in the Old Rus’ Chronicles of the 11-13th Centuries: Narrative Modelling of the Social Identities;

11⁰⁰-11³⁰ Discussion

11³⁰-11⁴⁵Coffee break

Panel II: Spirituality

11⁴⁵-12¹⁵ Paweł Kras (KUL Lublin) - The image of heretics in Catholic writings in the late Middle Ages;

12¹⁵-12⁴⁵ Michał Tomaszek (UMCS Lublin) – Objects, places and space in the process of building of monastic identities: few examples from 10th, 11th and 12th centuries;

12⁴⁵-13¹⁵ Discussion

13¹⁵-14⁴⁵ Lunch

 

Panel III: Regional Identities

14⁴⁵-15¹⁵ Przemysław Wiszewski (UWr Wrocław) - Region as a social construct in medieval Central Europe. Consequences of multilayered attachment of Europeans (11th-¹⁵th);

15¹⁵-15⁴⁵ Euryn Rhys Roberts (University of Bangor, Wales) A surfeit of identity? Regional solidarities, Welsh identity and the idea of Britain;

15⁴⁵-16¹⁵ Stanisław Rosik (UWr Wrocław) - Shaping of post-barbarian identity: example of Pomerania in the 11-12th century;

16¹⁵-17¹⁵ Paweł Derecki (UW Warszawa) - Adventus Saxonum in Britanniam. The narrative revisited.

17¹⁵-17⁴⁵ Discussion

19⁰⁰ Banquet

 

9³⁰-10⁰⁰ Mariusz Bartnicki (UMCS Lublin), Describing the Ruthenian ethnos and foreign people in Kievian and Galichian-Volodimir chronicles in the 12th-13th centuries;

10⁰⁰-10³⁰ Joanna Sobiesiak (UMCS Lublin) - Czechs and Germans – natives and foreigners in the Czech chronicles from Cosmas of Prague (12th c.) to Dalimil (14th c.);

10³⁰-11⁰⁰ Martin Nodl (Univerzita Karlova Praha, Czechy) - The national conflicts at Praque University in the late ¹⁵th century;

11⁰⁰-11¹⁵ Coffee break

 

Panel V: Gender and self-government communities

11¹⁵-11⁴⁵ PrzemysławTyszka (UMCS Lublin) - Defining masculinity and femininity in penitence books from the 6th until the 11th century.;

11⁴⁵-12¹⁵ Andrzej Pleszczyński (UMCS Lublin) - The identity of self-government groups (guilds and communes) in the Middle Ages.

12¹⁵-12⁴⁵Discussion and the conclusion of the conference

12⁴⁵ Lunch

 

The planned meeting of contributors (and collaborators) of the project in the form of a conference will take place in Lublin on 15-17 October 2014. The detailed program of the conference will be announced in the spring of 2014. We ask each of the project participants: 1/ to prepare a draft of conference speech before 30 April, 2014 (1000 -1500 characters), 2/ to participate in October meeting, and 3/ to deliver a ready to publish article not later than 15 December 2014.

The abstracts

The planned subjects of the conference papers:

• Prof. Dániel Bagi, The genealogical fictions in traditions of the Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Ruthenian dynasties in the 11th-13th centuries;
• Dr Mariusz Bartnicki, Describing the Ruthenian ethnos and foreign people in Kievian and Galichian-Volodimir chronicles in the 12th-13th centuries;
• Prof. Zbigniew Dalewski, Strategies of creating dynastic identity in Central Europe in the 10th-13th centuries;
• Dr Georg Jostkleigrewe, The role of the expression ‘rex imperator in regno suo’ in creating the identity of the political elite in late medieval France;
• Dr Bartosz Klusek, Law as a form of expressing ethnic identity in Wales and Ireland in the 13th-14th centuries;
• Prof. Paweł Kras, The image of heretics in Catholic writings in the late 15th century;
• Dr Wojciech Michalski, The narrative structures about the origins of noble families in Britain, northern France, Brittony and Wallonia;
• Dr Martin Nodl, The national conflicts at Praque University in the late 15th century;
• Prof. Andrzej Pleszczyński, The identity of self-government groups (guilds and communes) in the Middle Ages;
• Prof. Huw Pryce, Dynastic Identity in XIIth- and XIIIth-century Wales;
• Dr. Euryn Rhys Roberts, A surfeit of identity? Regional solidarities, Welsh identity and the idea of Britain;
• Dr Joanna Sobiesiak, Czechs and Germans – natives and foreigners in the Czech chronicles from Cosmas of Prague (12th c.) to Dalimil (14th c.);
• MA Karol Szejgiec, The identity of the secular elites in the late Middle Ages based on the example of ‘Gesta consulum Andegavorum’ (from the mid 12th c.);
• MA Tomasz Tarczyński, The King and the Saint against the Scots. The shaping of English national identity in the XIIth-century narrative of king Athelstan’s victory over his northern neighbours. (Miracula s. Johannis episcopi Eboracensis)
  
• Dr Michał Tomaszek, Things and places as a means of building identity in Benedictine monastic communities in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Europe in the 9th-10th centuries;
• Dr hab. Przemysław Tyszka, Defining masculinity and feminity in penitence books from the 6th until the 11th century.;
• Dr Tatiana Vilkul, The perception of relations between the rulers and assemblies in Ruthenian sources from the 10th to the 13th century.