05.05.2023, 10:30-Naming Newcomers: surname patterns and attitudes towards immigrants in Later Medieval England

Laboratory activity

In person lesson
Conference Room, III floor, Building  D3.

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Abstract
This seminar provides a comprehensive account of surname patterns, attitudes and experiences of first- generation immigrants to England during the later Middle Ages. It addresses both official policy and public responses to immigration in the age of the Black Death, the Hundred Years War and the early Tudor monarchy, revealing how dramatic changes in the English economy fundamentally affected levels of tolerance and discrimination. It is focused on the historical dimensions of immigration policy, attitudes to ethnicity and race.

Speaker
Bart Lambert
Free University of Brussels

Coordinator
Università degli Studi di Salerno,
Vrije Universiteit Brussels