IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1523: Does Size Really Matter?: Scandinavian Aspects of 'Empire', IV: Contacts and Connections
Thursday 10 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Edward Carlsson Browne, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen Paul Gazzoli, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge Kerstin Hundahl, Historiska Institutionen, Lunds Universitet |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Paul Gazzoli, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 1523-a | Why Did the Vikings Make No Conquests in Ireland? (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Military History |
| Paper 1523-b | 'The most distant dwellers upon the earth': Contacts between Pictland and Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1523-c | Northern Exposure: Foreign Immigration to Norse Communities in the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Social History |
| Abstract | This strand of six sessions was organised to provide a unified forum for the discussion of Scandinavian history, which last year had been divided into several scattered sessions, some of which conflicted. The fourth of the six sessions examines not a literal empire but networks of connections between Scandinavia and other regions. The first paper will address contacts between Scandinavia and the Picts, the second with Russia, while the third will look at how the foreign connections of Scandinavian brought immigration into their communities. |