IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 805: Beyond the 'Celtic Fringe': Irish Influence on the Early Medieval British and Scandinavian Worlds
Tuesday 13 July 2004, 16.30-18.00
Organiser: | Fiona Edmonds, St John's College, University of Cambridge |
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Moderator/Chair: | Fiona Edmonds, St John's College, University of Cambridge |
Paper 805-a | The Irish Sea at Sea: Scotland and Iceland (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Archaeology - Sites, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
Paper 805-b | Kings over the Water: Dal Riata, Alba and the Picts in Medieval Irish Pseudohistory (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 805-c | 'May the Road Rise up to Meet You': The Underpinnings of Communication between Northumbrian and Irish Churches, 650-1000 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Economics - General, Monasticism |
Abstract | The session will aim to investigate the impact of Irish culture and politics overseas. It will be suggested that such influence was transmitted through political and inter-dynastic co-operation and confrontation, exchange of information and the movements of people and goods, both in lay and ecclesiastical spheres. Each paper primarily investigates Irishinfluence on a different part of the British and Scandinavian worlds: Iceland, Pictland andNorthumbria. By examining these territories it will emerge that far from beinga 'Celtic fringe', Ireland was a nexus of contacts between the Goidelic, British and Scandinavian worlds. |