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Sailing the Western Sea: the Atlantic Ocean in a Medieval Perspective
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Penn State holds a its 21st Medieval Conference on March 28, 2009 on "Sailing the Western Sea: the Atlantic Ocean in a Medieval Perspective". The Atlantic World has been an important focus in the historical profession for a decade or more, but to the neglect of its early beginning. In this one-day conference, five noted speakers will consider the medieval Atlantic from Scandinavia to Iberia, and from the 11th to the 16th century. We hope to foster discussion and further collaborative research projects with this gathering. We especially welcome graduate students interested in the topic. For more information and registration (there is no cost to attend this conference), see .
Speakers
-- Andrew McDonald, Brock University, “The late Norse Isle of Man in its North Atlantic context: contacts and communication, 1079-1265”
-- Alfred Siewers, Bucknell University, “Desert Islands: Europe’s Atlantic Archipelago as Ascetic Landscape”
-- Thomas Haine, Johns Hopkins University, “Greenland Norse Knowledge of the North Atlantic Environment”
-- Kelly DeVries, Loyola University, “Into the Atlantic or Into the Mediterranean: Spanish Military Choices in the Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries”
-- Christopher Fee, Gettysburg College, “Með lögum skal land vort byggja: “With Law Shall the Land be Built” Law-Speaking and Identity in the Medieval Norse Atlantic”
The conference is sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies with the support of the Institute for Arts and Humanistic Studies, Medieval Studies Program, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Germanic and Slavonic Languages
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Professor Benjamin Hudson
Director of the Center for Medieval Studies
Weaver Building, Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-7454
Email: bth1@psu.edu
Visit the website at http://www.psu.edu/dept/medieval/
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