IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1625: Mental and Material: Building World(s) in the Medieval North, II - Worlds of History
Thursday 4 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Rebecca Merkelbach, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
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Moderator/Chair: | Rebecca Merkelbach, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
Paper 1625-a | Creating the Court in Skáldatal: The Skalds, Their Poetry, and the World of Scandinavian Kings (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Literacy and Orality, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1625-b | Constructing Settlements: Social Network Analysis and Landnámabók (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
Paper 1625-c | Mapping Medical Knowledge in Medieval Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Medicine, Science |
Abstract | The concept of worldbuilding, and the related idea of story-worlds - originally derived from the creation and study of the imaginary worlds of fantasy literature - have been influential tools in the analysis of narrative worlds across literatures. This series of sessions aims to apply these tools to the worlds of the medieval north. Employing an interdisciplinary focus that includes but ultimately goes beyond narrative worlds, they investigate how medieval Scandinavian worlds were built in history, archaeology and material culture. This second session explores the way the historical worlds of the medieval North are constructed through interaction, examining poetry and the manuscript that preserve it, social networks in settlement narratives, and cultural contacts that shape medical knowledge. |