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Spring Lecture Series 1999

 
Medieval Scandinavia: The Vikings and Their Culture
March 22nd - 25th, 1999
Dane Smith Hall, Room 125



 

Wave over wave of Vikings cut through the North Sea and the Atlantic. In the east they portaged across Poland, penetrating Russia as far as the Caspian and Black Seas to the Mediterranean. Greed for glory and plunder, lust for freedom and land lured them to England, Sicily, Greenland, Ireland, and as far as Newfoundland in the New World. They colonized England, Greenland, Russia, and Iceland. Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, bands of scandinavians whom we have come to call Vikings played a significant part in reshaping the medieval world from Russia and Byzantium in the east to the Atlantic Islands and Newfoundland in the west as well as on the European continent.

"Medieval Scandinavia: The Vikings and Their Culture," is the theme of this year's series. The lectures will examine the Viking Age as a vehicle for the transmission of political, social, and mythological structures and will correct some misperceptions of the Viking world. All of the lectures are free to the public.

Lecture Schedule

Monday, March 22, 1999 7:00 p.m.
"Conquest and Colonization"
Roderick McTurk

Tuesday, March 23, 1999 12:30 p.m.
"Scandinavian Kingship"
Roderick McTurk

Tuesday, March 23, 1999 7:00 p.m.
"Trials, Lawyers, and Legal Tricks: Icelandic Sagas and Law"
Carol J. Clover

Wednesday, March 24, 1999 4:00 p.m.
"Mythology and Religion of the Vikings"
John Lindow

Wednesday, March 24, 1999 7:00 p.m
"Viking Age Archaeology in Scandinavia"
Else Roesdahl

Thursday, March 25, 1999 12:30 p.m.
"The Eternal Effeminate: Men, Women, and Power in Early Northern Europe"
Carol J. Clover

Thursday, March 25, 1999 7:00 p.m.
"Viking Art & Architecture"
Else Roesdahl


1999 Spring Lecture Series Sponsors
Sponsored by: The University of New Mexico Institute for Medieval Studies in conjunction with the Center for Advanced Studies; College of Arts & Sciences Lecturer's Series; European Studies Program; International Programs; Religious Studies Program; University Honors Program; Women Studies Program; School of Architecture and Planning; the Departments of Art and Art History. Earth and Planetary Sciences. English, Foreign Languages and Literatures, History. Linguistics, Mathematics and Statistics, Music, Philosophy, Physics and Astronomy. Psychology, Spanish and Portuguese: the Bainbridge Memorial Slide Library; the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology; the Fleming Fund; the Luger Fund; the Shapiro and Robertson Fund:and KUNM.

This Lecture Series is supported by the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities.

 

 

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