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Ab aquilone: conceptions of space and identities...

...in Europe's far north in the middle ages | International Workshop | Hybrid

Workshop of the Project

Mapping Medieval Peoples | Visualizing Semantic Landscapes in Early Medieval Europe

This one-day workshop brings together scholars working in different aspects of space, identity and digital mapping of the medieval world, with a special focus on northern Europe, in particular Scandinavia and Iceland.

Participants:

Alexandra Petrulevich | Uppsala University, Sweden
Sara Ellis-Nilsson | Linnaeus University, Sweden
Dale Kedwards | Arnamagnaean Institute, Iceland
Benjamin Allport | Oslo University, Norway
Caitlin Ellis | Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies
Laura Gazzoli | Austrian Academy of Sciences

 

Registration for participation via zoom

 

Programme  |  PDF

Friday 10 June 

10:00–10:15   

Welcome and project introduction:
Laura Gazzoli, Veronika Wieser

10:15–11:45    

Session 1

 

Alexandra Petrulevich:
Spatiality in Medieval East Norse Literature

Dale Kedwards:
Í veraldir veralda: mappa mundi as Utopia

11:45–12:45

 Lunch

12:45–14:15   

Session 2

 

Caitlin Ellis:
Remapping the Viking Age: Representations of ‘Expansion’ and Connectivity

Benjamin Allport:
A Voyager‘s Guide to the North Way:
The Use and Misuse of Ohthere‘s Voyage as a Source for the Political Geography of Viking Age Scandinavia

14:15–14:45

Coffee

14:45–16:15

 Session 3

 

Sara Ellis Nilsson:
Saints in the (Digital) Landscape: Mapping Medieval Lived Religion in Sweden and Finland

Laura Gazzoli:
Mapping Morals? Visualising Europe’s Far North in Adam of Bremen and Ailnoth’s Accounts

 



  

Information

 

10 June 2022
Start: 10:00 h
Hollandstraße 11-13
1020 Vienna
Library IMAFO 3rd floor

Contact

Laura Gazzoli (IMAFO)
laura.gazzoli(at)oeaw.ac.at

Funded by the Innovationsfond Forschung, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft ÖAW

In cooperation with theAustrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH)