IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1544: Late Medieval Scandinavian Elites, II
Thursday 6 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Institutt for historiske studier, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Trondheim |
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| Organiser: | Magne Njåstad, Institutt for historiske studier, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Trondheim |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sigrun Høgetveit Berg, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet |
| Paper 1544-a | Icelandic Elites and the Fishing Economy, 1400-1600 (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Economics - Trade, Social History |
| Paper 1544-b | High Altitude Farming and Long Distance Trading: Economic Elites and Networks in Inland Scandinavia (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Economics - Trade, Social History |
| Paper 1544-c | Elites and Networks of Credit in Late Medieval Norway (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Social History |
| Abstract | Our aim is to organize two sessions with the common theme 'Elites and networks in late medieval Scandinavia'. We want to discuss established views of the period as a period of decline for the economic and political elites of the Scandinavian regions, by analyzing strategies of coping with the changing prerequisites following the demographic crisis of the period. This implies both reconsidering the actual decline of the 'traditional' elites (political, economic and ecclesiastical aristocracies), and to expand the concept of 'elites' to include local urban, agrarian or other elites. This session will focus on local elites and wealth based on non-agrarian products. We want to use the high-altitude forests of middle Scandinavia and the sub-arctic mountain regions as one case and the Icelandic fisheries as the other, with economic relations between local producers and the political-economical aristocracy as a third theme. |