IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 504: Orality, Literacy, and Vernacular Religion in Northern and Eastern Europe, I: Oral Traditions and Rus' Narratives
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Finnish Literature Society / Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies (NCMS), Helsinki |
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Organiser: | Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen, Finnish Literature Society / Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies (NCMS), Helsinki |
Moderator/Chair: | Tuomas M. S. Lehtonen, Finnish Literature Society / Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies (NCMS), Helsinki |
Paper 504-a | The Transformation of Old Russian and Old Norse Oral Traditions in Written Texts (Language: English) |
Paper 504-b | The Notion of Rus' in the Primary Chronicle (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Slavic, Literacy and Orality, Theology |
Paper 504-c | Oral Legends and the Russian Primary Chronicle (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Slavic, Literacy and Orality |
Abstract | The four sessions on orality, literacy, and vernacular religion in Northern and Eastern Europe aim to study the variety of Christian traditions, linguistic registers and vernacular adaptations at the conjunction of orality and literacy. The focus is on oral legends and early written Rus' narratives, vernacular Christian myths in Scandinavia, Finland, and Karelia, the borderland between Western and Eastern Churches, medieval and early modern linguistic and poetic registers in the Baltic Sea region, and oral and textual performances and construction of power and the pagans as the significant other in the Northern world from Anglo-Saxon England to Baltic and Nordic countries. |