IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 1719: Between Catastrophe and Hyperbole: Crisis Perspectives from Viking Age Francia and Iberia, III
Thursday 4 July 2024, 14:15-15:45
| Sponsor: | Liverpool Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, University of Liverpool |
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| Organiser: | Christian Cooijmans, Department of Languages, Cultures & Film, University of Liverpool |
| Moderator/Chair: | Christian Cooijmans, Department of Languages, Cultures & Film, University of Liverpool |
| Paper 1719-a | Penitent Vikings?: Crises, Dietary Abstinence, and Salvation in the Entry for 845 of the 'Xantenses' Part of the Annales Egmundenses (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval and Monasticism |
| Paper 1719-b | Frankia's Achilles Heel?: Responses to Viking Attacks in Frisia, 810-890 (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Maritime and Naval Studies and Military History |
| Paper 1719-c | Assessing the Viking Impact on the Development of Frisian Identity in Early Medieval Written Sources (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval and Military History |
| Abstract | As incoming viking groups had begun to alight along the coasts and riverbanks of western mainland Europe, contemporary authors characterised their landfall as one of widespread destruction and disruption, perpetrated by unscrupulous agents of chaos. Although decades of scholarly scrutiny have been able to temper this image of regional calamity, the Continental source material, as a whole, remains relatively underrepresented in wider considerations of the viking phenomenon and its impacts on overseas societies and institutions. Opening up new avenues of enquiry, the papers in these three sessions will engage with the perceptions, repercussions, and responses to viking endeavour in and around Continental Europe, ranging from Frisia to the Mediterranean. |