IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1115: Reassessing 'Othered' Communities
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, Stockholms Universitet |
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| Organiser: | Gwendolyne Knight, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet |
| Moderator/Chair: | Kurt Villads Jensen, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet |
| Paper 1115-a | Gens mea impetuosa est: Otherness, Identification, and Their Effect on Warfare in High Medieval Norway (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities, Military History |
| Paper 1115-b | Subverting the Grand Narrative: The 'Othered' Church in the Early Medieval Danish Realm Reassessed (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History, Local History, Religious Life |
| Paper 1115-c | Proto-Nationalism and the Christianisation of Gotland (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Local History, Pagan Religions, Political Thought |
| Abstract | This session brings together three papers that probe the status of a particular 'othered' community or the identity formation of a minority group. This focus has a distinct methodological emphasis: all papers engage critically with how knowledge about these communities is created, a significant part of which is a reassessment of current research on these communities. The first paper engages with the Christian Church as an 'othered' community in medieval Denmark; and the second paper examines negotiations of identity in Gotland at the intersection of Christianisation and a nascent national Swedish identity. |