IMC 2009: Sessions
Session 704: Orality, Literacy, and Vernacular Religion in Northern and Eastern Europe, III: Orality, Literacy, and Linguistic Registers in the Baltic Sea Region
Tuesday 14 July 2009, 14.15-15.45
| 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: | Irma-Riitta Irene Järvinen, Finnish Literature Society / Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies (NCMS), Helsinki |
| Paper 704-a | The Weight of the Word: The Use of Elements of Oral Speech in Public and Private Account Books of Medieval Reval (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Language and Literature - German, Literacy and Orality, Social History |
| Paper 704-b | Language Registers and Writer's Intent: Late Medieval Correspondence in the Baltic Sea Region (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Language and Literature - Other, Literacy and Orality, Mentalities |
| Paper 704-c | Metrical Choices in Early Finnish Oral and Literate Songs: Kalevalametric or Rhymed? (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Other, Lay Piety, Mentalities |
| 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. |