Ricky Broome
University of Leeds, School of History/Medieval Studies, Faculty Member
- Networks and Neighbours, History, Cultural History, Hagiography, Representation of Others, Merovingian and Carolingian, and 24 moreMedieval Historiography, Carolingian Studies, Merovingian period, Otherness, Pagan/Christian Relations in the Early Middle Ages, Comparative hagiography, Frisia, Fredegar, Seventh Century, Early Medieval History, Ideology, Early Middle Ages (History), Trojan War, Ilias Latina, Gender, Cultural Studies, Literature, Gender Studies, Religion, Culture, Heavy Metal Music, Borders and Frontiers, Cultural Memory, and Frontier Studiesedit
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The special thematic strand of the IMC 2018 is 'Memory'. As the organisers note, there are many kinds of memory, which permeate the writing of history – for modern scholars as much as our medieval predecessors. In these sessions we seek... more
The special thematic strand of the IMC 2018 is 'Memory'. As the organisers note, there are many kinds of memory, which permeate the writing of history – for modern scholars as much as our medieval predecessors. In these sessions we seek to examine how memory could be put to use as a tool for creating or perpetuating ideas of community in the Early Middle Ages.
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This is the accepted manuscript version of my review of Strategies of Identification for The Mediaeval Journal. Some wording may differ from the final published version.
Research Interests: Early Medieval History, Papacy (Medieval Church History), Late Antiquity, Carolingian Studies, Merovingian and Carolingian, and 4 moreEthnogenesis, Ethnicity and Identity in the Medieval Period, Identity and Otherness among the Barbarians in Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe. The difficult relationship between textual and archaeological record., and Late Roman Identities
The aim of this study is to examine how contemporary authors approached and understood the communal identity of the inhabitants of the regnum Francorum from the seventh to the early ninth century. In order to do this, the study takes in a... more
The aim of this study is to examine how contemporary authors approached and understood the communal identity of the inhabitants of the regnum Francorum from the seventh to the early ninth century. In order to do this, the study takes in a wide variety of narrative sources – historical and hagiographical – and addresses issues of both ‘community’ and ‘otherness’, and above all the relationship between the two. To this end, the study explores three related discourses that emerged and developed in this period. The first of these discourse concerned the Franks themselves, especially the way authors imagined a Frankish community composed of a single gens which overcame inherent divisions within the regnum. The second discourse involved the relationship between Franks and non-Franks, and how authors relied on concepts of rebellion and paganism rather than ethnic identity to encourage a sense of exclusion. Crucially, we shall see this was a discourse that only really emerged in the eighth century. The third discourse is represented by a case-study of a specific people – the Frisians that charts how they went from being peripheral pagans at the beginning of the eighth century to being seen as part of the community by the middle of the ninth. Above all, though, we seek to highlight the variety between the different authors who participated in these discourses, emphasising that, while there were over-arching ideas in each discourse, each author interpreted these ideas in an individual way. This provides us with a much more ambivalent picture of community and otherness from the period than we might expect.
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N&N Symposium 2015
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The program of the 2nd N&N Symposium, held on the campus of the Federal University of Parana in Curitiba, Brazil.