IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 522: Chronicling on the Northern Frontier of Christendom: Saxo Grammaticus and the Gesta Danorum
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Thomas Heebøll-Holm, Institut for Historie, Syddansk Universitet, Odense |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Lars Kjær, Department of History, New College of the Humanities, London |
| Paper 522-a | Tyranny across Borders: Saxo, Rome, and Unjust Government (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 522-b | Archbishop without Borders: The Transnational Engagements of Archbishop Eskil as an Historiographical Problem (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 522-c | Is the Gesta Danorum a Frontier Chronicle?: Saxo Grammaticus and Guillaume le Breton Compared (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Political Thought, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session deals with Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum (c. 1208) and its relation to contemporary European historiography as well as classical Roman history. In the historiography, the Saxo's chronicle has often been seen as a product of a society on the frontier of Christendom and as a product of a Scandinavian cultural and historical Sonderweg. However, in these papers the contributors shall argue that the Gesta was in fact just as much a work of European history as Scandinavian, and that it was a work that dealt with the same issues and drew on the same sources as contemporary European chronicles. |