IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1513: Interaction, Identity, and Space in the Irish Sea, 700-1100, I: Interactions and Identities
Thursday 6 July 2017, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Irish Sea in the Middle Ages Research Network (ISMARN) |
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Organiser: | Charles Insley, School of Arts, Languages & Cultures, University of Manchester |
Moderator/Chair: | Laura Gathagan, Department of History, State University of New York, Cortland |
Paper 1513-a | Images of Sigurd on Crosses and Carvings from the Isle of Man, Northern Britain, and Sweden: A Scandinavian / Benedictine Connection (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Ecclesiastical History, Epigraphy, Geography and Settlement Studies |
Paper 1513-b | 11th-Century Dublin in the Irish Sea and Beyond: Hybrid Identities and Competing Connections (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
Paper 1513-c | A Viking Thalassocracy?: Raid, Trade, and Lordship (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Geography and Settlement Studies, Maritime and Naval Studies |
Abstract | These two sessions seek to show case new work on interaction in the Irish Sea during what might be termed the 'Viking Age'; this research identifies the Irish Sea itself as a central place and as a space for a range of interactions cross the period 700-1100, but also a space which was connected to a much wider world. This first session focusses on questions around identity and the transcultural connections fostered in the Irish Sea zone, with papers that look at: cultural syncretism as represented by the image of Sigurd deployed in sculpture across the Irish Sea, northern Britain and Scandinavia; an examination of Dublin’s mercantile community and the deliberate fostering of hybrid identities in the 11th century; and the extent to which we might conceive of the lordships that emerge in the Irish sea as genuinely maritime polities - thalassocracies - or as extensions of primarily land-based lordships |