IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 707: Medievals' World View

Tuesday 2 July 2019, 14.15-15.45

Organiser:	Christian Raffensperger, Department of History, Wittenberg University, Ohio
Moderator/Chair:	Kurt Villads Jensen, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet
Paper 707-a	Adam of Bremen's Medieval World (Language: English) Christian Raffensperger, Department of History, Wittenberg University, Ohio Index terms: Demography, Historiography - Medieval
Paper 707-b	When World Views Collide: The Travel Narratives of Haraldr harðráði of Norway (Language: English) Bjørn Bandlien, Institutt for økonomi, historie og samfunnsvitenskap, Høgskolen i Sørøst-Norge Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Paper 707-c	The World of Ideas of Medieval Bohemian Authors (Language: English) David Kalhous, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin
Abstract	This panel moves away from modern conceptions of the medieval world to return to particular primary source sand see how they constructed the world around them. What did they think medieval Europe (or their portion of it) looked like? Each of the papers in this panel aims to examine a specific source to find out what they thought about their world around them; how they constructed it; or even if they did. In this way, we hope to ask new and different questions about the scope and periodization of what is medieval, as well as inspire others to do the same with their own sources.