Foreigners and Outside Influences in Medieval Norway

by Stian Suppersberger Hamre (Editor)

Overview

Foreigners and Outside Influences in Medieval Norway results from an international conference held in Bergen, Norway, in March 2016, entitled 'Multidisciplinary approaches to improving our understanding of immigration and mobility in pre-modern Scandinavia (1000-1900)'. The articles in this volume discuss different aspects of immigration and foreign influences in medieval Norway, from the viewpoint of different academic disciplines. The book will give the reader an insight into how the population of medieval Norway interacted with the surrounding world, how and by whom it was influenced, and how the population was composed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781784917050
Publisher:	Archaeopress Publishing
Publication date:	10/31/2017
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.89(w) x 9.65(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Stian Suppersberger Hamre is a biological anthropologist with a BA in palaeoanthropology from the University of New England, Australia, and an MSc in forensic anthropology from Bournemouth University, England. His Ph D research at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen, Norway, has focussed on different aspects of the medieval population in Norway. From 2013, his main interest has been to improve our understanding of pre-modern immigration, mobility and population composition in Norway, with a special emphasis on bringing different disciplines together to illuminate these topics and to complement his own research as a biological anthropologist.

Table of Contents

"Introduction (Stian Suppersberger Hamre)
Who were they? Steps towards an archaeological understanding of newcomers and settlers in early medieval Trondheim, Norway (Axel Christophersen)
The population in Norway, a long history of heterogeneity (Stian Suppersberger Hamre)
Foreigners in High Medieval Norway: images of immigration in chronicles and kings' sagas, twelfth and thirteenth centuries (Thomas Foerster)
The universal and the local: religious houses as cultural nodal points in medieval Norway (Synnove Myking)
Foreign envoys and resident Norwegians in the Late Middle Ages - a cultural clash? (Erik Opsahl)
Scandinavian immigrants in late medieval England: sources, problems and patterns (Bart Lambert) "