IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 307: Northern Cases of Medievalism, II: Utilizing the Past
Monday 12 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Department of History, University of Helsinki & Glossa, Society for Medieval Studies in Finland |
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| Organiser: | Derek Fewster, Department of History, University of Helsinki |
| Moderator/Chair: | Leena Valkeapää, University of Tampere |
| Paper 307-a | Conceptions of Medieval Ethnicity, Ethnogenesis, and Social Identities in Finland (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 307-b | A Catalytic Relationship?: Tourism and Medievalism in Finland at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 307-c | Pirita as a Bridge over Political Waters: Views of Finnish and Swedish Archaeologists on a Bridgettine Monastery in Estonia (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Monasticism |
| Abstract | This session forms the second and final part of a series presenting current research on medievalism and antiquarianism in Finland and the eastern Baltic area. All the papers deal with modern historiography and the discovery, construction, and even invention of a useful medieval society and imagery in the region. The second session focuses in particular on archaeological issues and how various modern considerations and presuppositions have influenced both public and scientific views of medieval Finland and Estonia. The papers are all related to forthcoming dissertations. |