IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 317: The Medieval Landscape / Seascape, III: Marginal and Liminal Places and Spaces
Monday 3 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Landscape Research Group, Oxford |
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| Organisers: | Karl Christian Alvestad, Department of History, University of Winchester Kimm Curran, History Lab+, Institute of Historical Research, University of London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Daryl Hendley Rooney, School of History, University College Dublin |
| Paper 317-a | The Poetics of Shifting Ground: Negotiated Boundaries in 'Hallmundarkviða' (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History, Social History |
| Paper 317-b | Vulnerable Margins: St Guðlac and the Fens of East Anglia (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 317-c | Finnar, Bjarmar, and Other Inhabitants of the North as Magic Users in the Fornaldarsögur, c. 1200-1400 (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Mentalities, Pagan Religions |
| Abstract | Writing about the medieval landscape and environment has a rich and long tradition and is an area in which many of the disciplines that comprise medieval studies have made significant contributions. Scholars working on ideas of the landscape, concepts of space and place, as well as in the developing field of environmental humanities have added to our theoretical framework for understanding people's relationships with the environment in the past. This session focuses on the idea of liminal landscapes and places of the 'in between', both in settlement and geography and how liminal places could also be marginal and transient. |