IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 633: The Literature of Medieval Scandinavia, V: Political, Cultural, and Mythological Empires
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Andrew McGillivray, Department of Icelandic & Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Iceland, Reykjavík Joanne Shortt Butler, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Edward Carlsson Browne, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, University of Aberdeen |
| Paper 633-a | Dreaming of a Better Day: On Dreams and the Shifting Social Order in Medieval Icelandic Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities |
| Paper 633-b | A Little Bit Enthralled: Old English Þræl in its Old Norse and Middle English Contexts (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Paper 633-c | Becoming-Animal in the Medieval Icelandic Imagination (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Pagan Religions |
| Abstract | As part of a group of sessions, these papers celebrate the diversity of sources concerning Medieval Scandinavia. 'The Literature of Medieval Scandinavia' builds upon popular sessions last year and complements the proposed Scandinavian history sessions ('Does Size Matter?'). These papers provide material of broader interest to legal historians, those with an interest in performance studies, and scholars of both poetry and prose, as well as both oral and written literatures. This session, Session 5/5, returns to a comparative view of Medieval Scandinavian literature first touched on by Session 1, looking at the social context beyond the literature itself. |