Workshop Knowledge of the North: Traditions, Transformations, and Practices of Medieval Scandinavian Learning
Jens Eike Schnall (UiB) and Jonas Wellendorf (University of California, Berkeley) have recieved a seed grant from the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study. The funding covers two exploratory workshops in Bergen and Berkeley.
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New impetus to the study of scholarly literature of the medieval North: The exploratory project Knowledge of the North: Traditions, Transformations, and Practices of Medieval Scandinavian Learning aims at laying the foundation for a more exhaustive study of the nature, possible applications, and prestige of book-transmitted learning in the medieval Norse societies and beyond, as well as the milieus in which it circulated and its relation to oral and social practices. The focus lies on three interdependent topics:
1) The acquisition and written transmission of scientific and cultural knowledge in medieval Iceland and Norway
2) The ordinatio or organization of knowledge on the manuscript page and within encyclopedic codices and miscellanies
3) The transformation and circulation of scientific and cultural knowledge in urban culture of the Scandinavian Realms
The project is supported by the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study. The funding covers two exploratory workshops, the above-mentioned in Bergen and a second held in Berkeley in april 2014.
Internal and external collegues and students are welcome, please contact:
Jens Eike Schnall (eike.schnall@lle.uib.no)
Jonas Wellendorf (wellendorf@berkeley.edu)
Programme
Friday:
09:00 Welcome
09:15-10:00
Bjørn Bandlien (Vestfold University College) – Dialogized hybridity and polyphonic sagas: Bakhtinian approaches to the intellectual cultures in twelfth-century Scandinavia
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00
Åslaug Ommundsen (University of Bergen) – Norske skriptorier omkring 1200
Tom Hellers (University of Bergen): The Oldest Sources on Odin: Late Medieval and Early Modern Perspectives
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14.00
Archivalia at the Department of Special Collections
14:00-14.45
Jonas Wellendorf (UC Berkeley) - Retying the bonds: Theories on the origin of idolatry in the North
14:45-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-16.45
Jacob Hobson (UC Berkeley) - Learning to Read Skaldic Poetry in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Molly Jacobs (UC Berkeley) - Creating the Medieval Court: Senses, Space, and Spectacle
Saturday:
09:15-10:00
Stefan Drechsler (University of Kiel) - The illuminated manuscripts from Helgafell – an interdisciplinary approach
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00
Florian Schreck (University of Bergen) - Representation, Processing and Dissemination of Science and Learning in Old Icelandic Romances
Hilde Stoltz (University of Bergen) - Fra fortelling til historie? Pseudohistoriske oversettelsesverk i flere versjoner
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30
Christian Etheridge (University of Copenhagen) – The Icelandic Aratea: Carolingian astronomical knowledge encoded in a fourteenth century manuscript
Jens Eike Schnall (University of Bergen) - From Medieval to Early Modern Times: Learned Traditions and Critical Attitudes towards the Marvels of the Sea
14:30-15:00
Perspectives / Future work