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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 1502: The Realm of Norway and Its Dependencies, I

Thursday 14 July 2011, 09.00-10.30

Sponsor:'The Realm of Norway and its Dependencies as a Political System', Norwegian Research Council
Organiser:Eldbjørg Haug, Department of Archaeology, Culture, History & Religion, Universitetet i Bergen
Moderator/Chair:Lars Ivar Hansen, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet
Paper 1502-aGrasping the Periphery?: The Norwegian Seizure of the Icelandic Bishoprics in 1238
(Language: English)
Heidi Anett Øvergård Beistad, Institutt for historie og klassiske fag, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Trondheim
Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1502-bThe Cult of St Olav in the Norse Cultural Sphere
(Language: English)
Øystein Ekroll, Institutt for historie og klassiske fag, Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet, Trondheim /
Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract

The session presents the Norwegian Research Council Project 'The Realm of Norway and its Dependencies as a Political System'. The Norwegian king's dominance in his commonwealth was at its peak in the 13th and 14th century and a polity was created to overcome the long distances between centre and periphery. The church province, created 1153, covered the commonwealth except Jemtland, and the veneration of the Norwegian national saint King Olav Haraldsson (St. Olav) became an important common cultural denominator.

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