IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1222: Hierarchical Kingship and Territoriality in the Early and Central Middle Ages
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Beñat Elortza, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, Department of History, University of Aberdeen |
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Moderator/Chair: | Beñat Elortza, Centre for Scandinavian Studies, Department of History, University of Aberdeen |
Paper 1222-a | Scandinavian Kingship: Contextualising Viking Activites in Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
Paper 1222-b | Early Anglo-Saxon Kingship (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Old English, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 1222-c | What's in a Title?: Kings, Earls, and Overlords in the North Sea World (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Celtic, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
Abstract | This session will create a comparative, transnational discussion on kingship across northwestern Europe in the early and central Middle Ages. Hegland's contribution will focus on Scandinavian kingship during periods of Viking activity in Ireland. Cutts's presentation, on the other hand, will discuss the nature of Anglo-Saxon kingship in the decades following Germanic migration to Britain and finally, Ellis's paper will compare forms of rulership which were nominally different but practically similar, focusing in particular on the earls of Lade/Hlaðir, the earls of Orkney, and the different methods of control over Dublin. |