IMC 2012: Sessions

Session 1626: Multilingualism in the Hanseatic World

Sponsor:	Leeds Studies in English
Organiser:	Alaric Hall, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
Moderator/Chair:	Alan V. Murray, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Paper 1626-a	Multilingualism and Literacy in the Medieval Baltic Sea Region: A Military Approach (Language: English) Mart Lätte, Institute of History & Archeology, University of Tartu Index terms: Language and Literature - German, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Literacy and Orality, Military History
Paper 1626-b	Economic Profit and Political Ignorance: Knowing Russian in the Medieval Baltic (Language: English) Anti Selart, Institute of History & Archaeology, University of Tartu Index terms: Economics - Trade, Language and Literature - Slavic
Paper 1626-c	'Norwegianisms' in 14th-Century Iceland (Language: English) Alaric Hall, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Literacy and Orality
Abstract	The session aims to open up a new dialogue on multilingualism in the history of the Baltic Sea/Hanseatic region - one of Europe's most linguistically diverse areas - in the Middle Ages. It brings together perspectives on the use and interaction of Slavonic, Finnic, Scandinavian, and German languages; the economic and political forces which promoted language-choices; and the methods by which we can try to access the history of spoken communication through sparse written records.