IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 244: Entanglements of Belief in Medieval Scandinavia
Monday 3 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Centrum för medeltidsstudier, Stockholms universitet |
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| Organiser: | Gwendolyne Knight, Historiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet |
| Moderator/Chair: | Felix Lummer, School of Social Sciences University of Iceland Reykjavík |
| Paper 244-a | Entangled Conflict in 15th-Century Danish Religion: Sermons, Amulets, and the Meaning of Magic (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Sermons and Preaching |
| Paper 244-b | Tangling with the Undead: Encounters with the Walking Dead in Bárðar saga Snæfellsáss and Flóamanna saga (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Religious Life |
| Paper 244-c | Tangling Together Law and Saga: Magic and the Paranormal in Medieval Iceland (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Scandinavian, Law |
| Abstract | This session brings together three papers that explore the ways in which themes of religious belief manifested in occasions of conversion and conflict, and reveal deep-seated entanglements within particular cultural contexts. In the first paper, Clara Dalgaard focuses on the conflicts between licit and illicit knowledge (whether magical or religious) in medieval Danish sermons. Chris Latham, in the session's second paper, turns to Iceland to examine the theme of religious conversion within the context of the undead, in order to see what these potential conflicts can tell us about medieval Icelandic society. Remaining in Iceland, Gwendolyne Knight then uses her paper to both explore methodological conflicts, but, similarly to Dalgaard, also conflicts between licit and illicit knowledge as reflected by particular text types. |