Developed in collaboration with the University of Sydney, this network seeks to build an ongoing international partnership between Bristol’s Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS) and the Medieval and Early Modern Centre (MEMC) at Sydney.
Issues relating to border communities, spaces, and mobility are as topical in Australia as they are in the UK, and an understanding of the medieval pre-nation-state world as global and connected by trade, yet patrolled and segregated by institutional power, is key to developing new intellectual ideas about the function and nature of border spaces as agents of control.
Planned outcomes from the network include grant applications, co-publications, conference sessions, video-linked seminars, postgraduate exchanges, and staff exchanges. The Network was established with funding from the International Strategic Fund, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol.
Researchers
Professor Helen Fulton, Chair in Medieval Literature, Department of English
Professor Jan Shaw, Associate Professor in Medieval Literature, Department of English, University of Sydney
Dr Kate McClune, Senior Lecturer, Department of English