IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 820: Religiously Motivated Travelling: Into and Out of the Outskirts of Western Christendom
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies |
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| Organiser: | Torstein Jørgensen, Centre for Medieval Studies, Universitetet i Bergen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sverre Bagge, Senter for middelalderstudier, Universitetet i Bergen |
| Paper 820-a | Papal Delegations to the Edge of the World (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archaeology - General, Ecclesiastical History, Economics - Urban |
| Paper 820-b | The Road to Jerusalem: In the Bible and among the Crusaders (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Lay Piety |
| Paper 820-c | Travelling to Ceuta to Fight and to Rome for Penitence: The Marvellous Story of Three Young Men from the Hebrides (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Theology |
| Abstract | The three papers of this session will give three examples of contact and communication between areas on the opposite edges of (Western) Christianity (Scandinavia, Atlantic Isles, Northern Africa, and the Holy Land) and between outskirts and the Centre of the Church. In all papers some kind of travelling is a main focus. |