Medieval History
- Ireland In Cambridge
ELB writes: This week Cambridge has been a hive of Irish-related activity. Events began on Monday with a seminar given to the Medieval Archaeology group at the McDonald Institute by Dr Kieran O'Connor, of the National University of Ireland Galway,...
- Vikings Not Alone When They Crossed The North Atlantic ? Mice Hitched A Ride Too
New research has revealed that when the Vikings sailed across the North Atlantic to places like Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, they brought with them the common house mouse. An international team of researchers from the UK, USA, Iceland, Denmark...
- The Carolingian Frontier And Its Neighbours
University of Cambridge, 4-6 July, 2014While recent scholarship has done much to illuminate early medieval frontiers, the relationship between the Carolingian frontier and its neighbouring societies has yet to be the focus of sustained, comparative discussion....
- 10th Annual Comitatus Conference On Medieval Studies: "north Atlantic Connections: Texts And Interpretations Of The Medieval North"
10th Annual Comitatus Conference on Medieval Studies: "North Atlantic Connections: Texts and Interpretations of the Medieval North" Purdue University West Lafayette, IN Feb. 24?25, 2012 Keynote Speaker: Marianne E. Kalinke CAS Professor Emerita of Germanic...
- Crosscurrents And Connections: Ireland And The Atlantic World
Call for Papers for the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, May 2010 Session: Crosscurrents and Connections: Ireland and the Atlantic World Ireland has often been seen as a land apart from the rest of Europe, perched on the edge...
Medieval History
Communication and Cultural Contacts in the North Atlantic Community
Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh writes:
Several members of the Department journeyed to Oslo last week to participate in a seminar and workshop on the broad theme of ?Communication and Cultural Contacts in the North Atlantic Community 1000-1300?, hosted by Professor Jón Viðar Sigurðsson. The focus of this particular event was bishops, saints and Church organisation. Detailed evidence was presented from areas ranging from Ireland to Iceland via the Isle of Man and the diocese of Sodor (and many more besides). In many of the varied contributions, links between both religious and political centres of power were to the fore, Dr Sarah Thomas demonstrating the central role played by Bishop Mark of Galloway in key political negotiations. Such connections were also explored in the accounts of Church organisation in Ireland, Iceland and Norway presented by Dr Colmán Etchingham and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson among others, points of comparison being particularly revealing. The universality of saints, as well as their differences were highlighted in contributions by Professor Ásdís Egilsdóttir and Dr Fiona Edmonds, the latter illuminating a layered nexus of saintly connections crossing the Irish Sea. Such networks facilitated transfer of texts, the influence of some of which we saw at work in the depictions of Icelandic bishop-saints, as well as in the portrayal of St Knud by Dr Jonny Grove. Two days of intense, profitable discussion underlined the importance of analysing the evidence from these areas in tandem. The productive debate will continue in a series of further seminars to be arranged.
- Ireland In Cambridge
ELB writes: This week Cambridge has been a hive of Irish-related activity. Events began on Monday with a seminar given to the Medieval Archaeology group at the McDonald Institute by Dr Kieran O'Connor, of the National University of Ireland Galway,...
- Vikings Not Alone When They Crossed The North Atlantic ? Mice Hitched A Ride Too
New research has revealed that when the Vikings sailed across the North Atlantic to places like Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, they brought with them the common house mouse. An international team of researchers from the UK, USA, Iceland, Denmark...
- The Carolingian Frontier And Its Neighbours
University of Cambridge, 4-6 July, 2014While recent scholarship has done much to illuminate early medieval frontiers, the relationship between the Carolingian frontier and its neighbouring societies has yet to be the focus of sustained, comparative discussion....
- 10th Annual Comitatus Conference On Medieval Studies: "north Atlantic Connections: Texts And Interpretations Of The Medieval North"
10th Annual Comitatus Conference on Medieval Studies: "North Atlantic Connections: Texts and Interpretations of the Medieval North" Purdue University West Lafayette, IN Feb. 24?25, 2012 Keynote Speaker: Marianne E. Kalinke CAS Professor Emerita of Germanic...
- Crosscurrents And Connections: Ireland And The Atlantic World
Call for Papers for the 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, May 2010 Session: Crosscurrents and Connections: Ireland and the Atlantic World Ireland has often been seen as a land apart from the rest of Europe, perched on the edge...