ISBN10: 0718500849, ISBN13: 9780718500849, [publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group] Hardcover pp. 300
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 0718500849, ISBN13: 9780718500849, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London] Hardcover Hardcover. 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. This text takes a theoretical approach in viewing the social identity of early medieval Britain and Ireland as an intricate "warp and weft" in which "we-identities" are more than mere agglomerations of single threads or collectives of individual "self-identities", such as ethnicity or gender. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
[Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2001]