The textiles necessary to outfit a Viking boat carrying a 100 man required nearly 30 times more "girl-power" than "man-power". Further it created a whole new Scandinavian landscape characterized by heath grazed by sheep.
Category: Medieval Histories
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XIV Nordic TAG 2014
22.04.2014 – 26.04.2014 XIV Nordic TAG 2014 will be held in Stockholm
Gesta Vol 52 – No 2 – 2013
Gesta Vol 52 - No 2 - 2013 Gesta is a journal published by The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the International Center of Medieval Art
Byzantine Studies Conference
06.11.2014 -09.11.2014 Byzantine Studies Conference 2014. Deadline for CFP: 01.04.2014
Inventories of Textiles – Textiles in Inventories
27.03.2014-28.03.2014 Inventories of Textiles – Textiles in Inventories, a Workshop in Vienna
12 PhD’s – Forest Resources for Iberian Empires
04.04.2014 12 Phds focusing on Forest Resources for Iberian Empires are posted for application
The Carolingian Frontier and its Neighbours
04.07.2014 -06.07.2014 The Carolingian Frontier and its Neighbours is the title of a conference at the University of Cambridge. CFP: deadline 11.04.2014
Church Reforms and the Cult of Saints
17.09.2014 - 21.09.2014 Church Reforms and the Cult of Saints - Medieval Histories. CFP: Before 15.04.2014
Vikings – Life and Legend
A review of the reviews of the 2014 exhibition of the Vikings - Life and Legend at the British Museum
Late Roman Silver
BOOK: 1919 a hoard of Roman silver – wine jugs, goblets, coins and military buckles – much of it cut, as if ready for melting down was uncovered in Scotland. A new book places the hoard in its wider European context.
IMC 2015 – Reform and Renewal
06.07.2015 - 09.7.2014 The twenty-second International Medieval Congress will take place in Leeds, from 6-9 July 2015. Thematic strand will be Reform and Renewal
The Mediterranean: Regional and trans-regional Interactions in Times of fragmentation (300 – 800 CE)
11.12.2014 - 13.12.2014 Regional and trans-regional Interactions in Times of fragmentation (300 – 800 CE)
St. Ladislas in Medieval Continental Croatia
The Cult of St. Ladislas flourished in Medieval Croatia in the late Middle Ages
Lecturer in Medieval History c.900-c.1500
20.03.2014 Lecturer in Medieval History c.900-c.1500
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
BOOK: Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Water in Medieval Culture
Water in Medieval Culture – The 16th Symposium of the Mediävistenverband will be held at the University of Bern 22.03.2015 – 25.03.2015
Water is life. Individual organisms, social formations and cultural acheivements all depend on Water. It is used in both pragmatic and symbolic contexts. Being a life-sustaining as well as destructive force, water connects and divides, absolves and dissolves. Society as a whole and individual institutions alike need to engage with and adapt to these ambivalent aspects of water. As a natural element, water provokes cultural reactions in regard to its utilization, evaluation and symbolism. The different functions water fulfills in the natural world are also addressed and negotiated in literature and visual arts.
The conference aims to shed light on
- Environment – Climate- Ecology
- Means of Transportation, Boundary, Bases of Power
- Natural History and Natural Philosophy
- Symbolism (Symbolbildungen)
Please send proposals before the 28th of februar to wasser2015@kps.unibe.ch
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Gelinde Huber-Rebenich
Institut für Klassische Philologie
Universität Bern
Länggassstrasse 49
CH-3012 Bern
Water in Medieval Culture – The 16th Symposium of the Mediävistenverband.
University of Bern
22.03.2015 – 25.03.2015
CFP (Deadline): 28.02.2014