[Anthropgrad] Seminar, Friday 5 October: Christian polemic and the construction of ethnicity in early medieval Britain

[Liz Walters]

'Scourge of God' or 'New Israel': 

Christian polemic and the construction of ethnicity in early medieval
Britain

 

   Bob Birks (ANU)

 

 


 

Friday 5 October at 11am in Haydon-Allen 1207

 

History (School of Social Sciences) Seminar

 

 

In 596 AD pope Gregory the Great dispatched a mission to reclaim the
former diocese of Britannia for the Roman see via the conversion of the
pagan Anglo-Saxon polities now controlling most of it.  This process was
eventually successful, but at the outset largely ignored the long
established structures of the British, Scottish and Pictish churches,
precipitating a century and a half of ecclesiastical conflict that was
often cast in terms of ethnic vituperation.  This seminar examines how
the ethno-religious conflict was reflected in the (juicy) writings of a
selection of clerical authors of the period, and comments briefly on
interaction with current political situations and on the conflict's
effects on ethnic portrayal in the later histories.

 

 

 

General queries to mark.dawson at anu.edu.au

 

 

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