IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1007: The Un-Christian and the Wasteland: Perspectives on Centre and Periphery from a Northern Viewpoint, c. 800-1430
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Louise Berglund, School of Humanities, Education & Social Sciences, Örebro University |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Thomas Neijman, Institutionen för mediestudier, Stockholms universitet |
| Paper 1007-a | Mental Urbanisation of the Heathen North: Cities, Civilisation, and Christianity (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Geography and Settlement Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1007-b | The Wilderness at the End of the World: Missionising around the Baltic (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1007-c | 'From where few return alive': Sending Philippa, Daughter of King Henry IV, to the North, c. 1400-1430 (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The contrast between centre and periphery has long been of interest in historical research. In this session three Nordic historians will analyze how regions in the periphery are described by those who ventured into them. Medieval missionary activity aimed at the Nordic region generated material describing those faraway, non-Christian lands, and Crusades gave rise to another type of description of faraway regions marked by their difference vis à vis the Christian West. Diplomatic activity also brought observers from relatively central areas to places considered as wild, untamed, and possibly dangerous. Encounters with the un-Christian and the wasteland are the focus of this session. |