IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 622: Borders in Medievalism and Historiography in the North?
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Ralf Palmgren, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture & Art Studies, University of Helsinki |
---|---|
Moderator/Chair: | Ralf Palmgren, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture & Art Studies, University of Helsinki |
Paper 622-a | Nordic Medieval Scholars and the Project of a Medieval Encyclopedia in the 20th Century: Postwar Nordism in Practice? (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Paper 622-b | The Ideological Borders between Unnecessary, Sufficient, and Advanced Knowledge: Guidelines for Teaching the Nordic Middle Ages at German Schools until 1945 (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Medievalism and Antiquarianism, Teaching the Middle Ages |
Paper 622-c | Indigeneity in the Construction of Medieval Scandinavia in the Kulturhistorisk leksikon for nordisk middelalder and Wikipedia (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
Abstract | This session examines how the Nordic Middle Ages have been deployed in constructing identity over the last century. Paper -a investigates the influence of the Finnish editors in the inter-Scandinavian cultural-historical Kulturhistorisk leksikon for nordisk middelalder (KNLM) encyclopedia project (1956-1978). It links the politics and mentalities of the project to postwar so-called Nordism. Paper -b studies how German school curricula drew ideological borders to distinguish 'useful' from 'unnecessary' and 'instructive' from 'idle' knowledge of the Nordic Middle Ages. Paper -c compares the representation of medieval Finnic- and Sámi-speaking cultures in KNLM and Wikipedia in order to track how Nordic cultures are representing indigeneity. |