IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 1015: Journeying along Medieval Routes, I: Northern Europe

Wednesday 14 July 2010, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:	Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Culture, University of Southampton
Organisers:	Alison Lucy Gascoigne, Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton Leonie V. Hicks, Department of History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University Marianne O'Doherty, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:	Paul Webster, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University
Paper 1015-a	Ohthere's Voyages Seen from a Nautical Angle (Language: English) Anton Englert, Vikingeskibsmuseet, Roskilde Index terms: Economics - Trade, Language and Literature - Old English, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Maritime and Naval Studies
Paper 1015-b	On the Localization and Function of the Royal Pfalz Dornburg (Saale) in the Road System of the 10th and 11th Centuries (Language: English) Pierre Fütterer, Historisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena Index terms: Archaeology - General, Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies
Paper 1015-c	The Interdisciplinary Investigation of Medieval Traffic Routes: The Example of the Teutonic Order and its Province Thuringia (Language: English) Christian Oertel, Historisches Institut, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies, Monasticism
Abstract	The first in a series of four sessions that investigate routes taken by medieval travellers in interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary ways, this session tackles the reconstruction of medieval routes in Northern Europe using a combination of historical, archaeological, and textual forms of evidence. Anton Englert's paper combines the techniques of maritime archaeology with textual work to shed new light both on Ohthere's 9th-century voyage and the text in which it is described. Pierre Fütterer's paper shows how historical and archaeological work can be combined to reconstruct the road system around Dornburg and locate the Pfalz within it. The session will conclude with Christian Oertel's interdisciplinary investigation, which shows the interdependence between the road system and the Teutonic Order in medieval Thuringia.