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IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1534: Borders in Old Germanic Realities

Thursday 7 July 2022, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:Letizia Vezzosi, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Moderator/Chair:Letizia Vezzosi, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Paper 1534-aWitchcraft Accusations in Early Medieval Decrees: The Reputation of a Woman between Religious Offence and Family Concern
(Language: English)
Daniela Fruscione, Institut für Rechtsgeschichte, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main
Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Law
Paper 1534-bSkaldic Poetry across Borders
(Language: English)
Maria Cristina Lombardi, Dipartimento di Studi Letterari Linguistici e Comparati Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale
Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Literacy and Orality
Paper 1534-cInstances of Interactions and Conflicts in the North Sea Region in Medieval Times
(Language: English)
Concetta Giliberto, Dipartimento di Analisi dell'Espressione Lingue, Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Università degli Studi di Palermo
Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Other, Language and Literature - Scandinavian
Abstract

The word of 'borders' will immediately recalls us the image of people moving across borders, which delimite and identify states and nationalities. In the Middle Ages, this was not the case: people moved between 'power-defined political areas', not across national borders, but, at most, across different geographical spaces into these realities, bringing with them their culture, their religion, their language, and sometimes their laws. Accordingly within those 'power-defined political areas' there were cultural, linguistic, legal borders to be crossed. In the present session, we would like to test such a claim within the Old Germanic world.