IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 604: Orality, Literacy, and Vernacular Religion in Northern and Eastern Europe, II: Vernacular Christian Myths in Scandinavia, Finland, and Karelia
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 11.15-12.45
| 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: | Lauri Harvilahti, Finnish Literature Society / Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies (NCMS), Helsinki |
| Paper 604-a | The Nativity in Finnish and Karelian Folklore (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Other |
| Paper 604-b | St Catherine of Alexandria in Finnish Folklore (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Hagiography, Lay Piety, Literacy and Orality |
| Paper 604-c | Materializing the Saints: The Role of Sacred Woodcarving (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Lay Piety |
| 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. |