IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1602: The Realm of Norway and Its Dependencies, II: Frontiers of the Commonwealth
Thursday 14 July 2011, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | 'The Realm of Norway and its Dependencies as a Political System', Norwegian Research Council |
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| Organiser: | Eldbjørg Haug, Department of Archaeology, Culture, History & Religion, Universitetet i Bergen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Eldbjørg Haug, Department of Archaeology, Culture, History & Religion, Universitetet i Bergen |
| Paper 1602-a | Diplomacy, War, and Propaganda: Hakon IV of Norway, Alexander II of Scotland and Innse Gall (Language: English) Index terms: Military History, Politics and Diplomacy, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1602-b | How the East was Won: The Integration of Jemtland into the Realm of the King of Norway (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - General, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1602-c | Norway's Overseas Frontier: Orkney and Shetland, c. 1266-1468 (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The dependencies in the Norwegian Commonwealth had several frontiers: the Kingdom of Man and the Isles, Orkney and Shetland, the Eastern borderland of Jemtland, and the vast area North of the Polar Circle, Finnmark. This session will focus on three of them. The Kingdom of Man and the Isles seized for all practical purposes to be a part of the political system after 1266, and the first paper focus discusses the causes, course and consequences of this process.The second paper discusses what it meant for Jemtland to be a tributary land, while the third challenges traditional theories on the isles' withdrawal from Norse |