IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 235: Converting the Isles, II: Narratives of Conversion, Semantics, and Social Change

Sponsor:	Leverhulme Trust Research Network: 'Converting the Isles'
Organisers:	Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge Sarah Waidler, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge
Moderator/Chair:	Sarah Waidler, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge
Paper 235-a	Becoming Christian: Investigating Conversion to Christianity and Social Change in Early Medieval Ireland (Language: English) Roy Flechner, School of History, University College Dublin Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 235-b	Making Myths: Accounts of Conversion in the Norse North Atlantic (Language: English) Rosalind Bonté, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Index terms: Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Paper 235-c	Why Conversion Still Mattered: 11th- and 12th-Century Irish Literary Accounts (Language: English) Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge
Abstract	These papers will examine different aspects of Latin and vernacular conversion narratives from Scandinavia and the Celtic world, focussing on their social and political meaning. Religious ideology as a force for social change and identity formation will form a unifying strand of the session. Sources examined will include quasi-carturlary material, saga literature and apocryphal literature.