IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 838: After the Icelandic Commonwealth, IV: Making Connections, Narrating Identity
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Tom Morcom, Faculty of English Language & Literature, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ann Sheffield, Department of Chemistry, Allegheny College, Pennsylvania |
| Paper 838-a | From Israel to Iceland: The Hebrew Bible and the Typological Structure of Sturlunga Saga (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Theology |
| Paper 838-b | 'Þorsteinn hét maðr': A Socio-Onomastic Analysis (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Onomastics |
| Paper 838-c | From Troy to Iceland: The Use of Translatio imperii and Icelandic Identity (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Comparative, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Abstract | This is the final panel of a series on 'Iceland in the Medieval World', focusing on discursive navigations of the social, cultural, and political position of Iceland, after the island became part of the kingdom of Norway in 1262-1264. This panel seeks to unravel how later medieval Old-Norse Icelandic cultural products invoke and transform legal, religious, or narrative material in order to think about textual adaptation as a political practice. This comparative approach offers a reconsideration of how medieval Icelanders asserted their position within medieval textual networks, an impulse that may have been particularly significant in the fraught cultural context of later medieval Iceland. |