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 |
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Moderator/Chair: | Letizia Vezzosi, Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Studi Interculturali, Università degli Studi di Firenze |
Paper 1534-a | Witchcraft Accusations in Early Medieval Decrees: The Reputation of a Woman between Religious Offence and Family Concern (Language: English) Index terms: Folk Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Law |
Paper 1534-b | Skaldic Poetry across Borders (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Literacy and Orality |
Paper 1534-c | Instances of Interactions and Conflicts in the North Sea Region in Medieval Times (Language: English) 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. |