The Medieval Studies Research Group are delighted to announce this talk from our visiting scholar, Elias Carballido Gonzalez.
Title: Being Alone in Early Medieval Small Worlds: The Challenge of Labelling, Understanding, and Feeling Solitude
Topic: Early medieval local communities have been analysed from multiple perspectives that make visible the internal dynamics of their social fabric. The centrality of the notion of community and the reduced spatial scope of action of these in the early medieval rural world has led us to think less about a reality that would have existed even in these small worlds: solitude. In this paper we propose some theoretical and methodological reflections to study the physical, social and emotional experience of loneliness in these communities, taking into account the overlapping discourses, like the religious, legal and or the social, among others, that make it something complex to label from a terminological point of view, difficult to trace from a documentary point of view and, for certain authors, impossible in a pre-modern and rural world.
Speaker: Elías Carballido Gonzalez (Universidad de Oviedo)
Biography: Elías is a predoctoral fellow in Medieval History at the University of Oviedo, where he combines teaching and research work. His main lines of research have to do with internal differentiation in Early Medieval rural communities, focusing on the social and emotional experience of being alone, including from a gendered perspective. He holds a Master’s degree in Gender and Diversity from Oviedo, and is a member of the LLABOR-LANDS Group, dedicated to the studies of the medieval rural communities and led by Margarita Fernández Mier.
12 November 2024, 17:00, Alfred Tennyson Building 109, and online
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