IMC 2025: Sessions
Session 1537: Landscapes of Learning, I: Changing Knowledge of Landscapes
Thursday 10 July 2025, 09:00-10:30
| Sponsor: | Forskning på kulturarv i bruk, Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge |
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| Organisers: | Karl Christian Alvestad, Institutt for kultur, religion og samfunnsfag, Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge Daniel Brown, Independent Scholar |
| Moderator/Chair: | Karl Christian Alvestad, Institutt for kultur, religion og samfunnsfag, Universitetet i Sørøst-Norge |
| Paper 1537-a | Tangible/Intangible: Learning Landscapes (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
| Paper 1537-b | Narrating the End at the Edge of the World: The Enduring Sacred Topography of Christendom in Galicia (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Religious Life |
| Paper 1537-c | Cityscape, Memory, and Identity: (Re)Inventing a Terminating Vista and the Meaningful Space of Medieval Krakow (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies, Religious Life |
| Abstract | In this session, the papers seek to examine how landscapes of medieval Europe have been re-invented, re-membered and re-constructed through the composition of texts and the physical landscapes. The session opens with Daniel Brown's paper which explores how landscape is learned in the historiography of the Norman and Anglo-Norman courts. This is then followed by Isadora Martins Fontoura de Carvalho’s paper which explores landscapes in text. Here the focus is on how the late antique topography of Gallicia, as remembered in medieval texts, was adapted and re-constructed with the Christianisation of the area. The final paper by Piotr Pajor explores the reconstruction of the cityscape of medieval Cracow, and how it sheds light on how the interplay between different actors shaped the cityscape. Together these papers are examples of how knowledge and learning diverse landscapes are shaped, re-constructed and remembered. |