IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 1604: Inside and Outside: The Role of the 'Others' in Medieval Societies around the Baltic Coast

Sponsor:	Centrum för Medeltidsstudier, Stockholms Universitet
Organiser:	Cordelia Hess, Historiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet
Moderator/Chair:	Anthony Bale, Department of English & Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London
Paper 1604-a	Preaching about Jews in Medieval Denmark (Language: English) Jonathan Adams, Department of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala Universitet Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Sermons and Preaching
Paper 1604-b	Body Metaphors in the Host Desecration Story of Sternberg (Language: English) Cordelia Hess, Historiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - German, Religious Life
Paper 1604-c	'Pagans' and Power in the Early Chronicles of the Teutonic Order (Language: English) Heinrich Hofmann, Institut für Germanistik, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Gießen Index terms: Crusades, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	This session investigates the role and portrayal of the 'Others' in medieval societies around the Baltic Coast. Non-Christians were used in religious and political discourse in order to strengthen and define the internal and external boundaries of the areas that are under discussion: Denmark, Mecklenburg, and Prussia. The sources investigated are sermons, anti-Jewish treatises and chronicles.