memory

Memory and Remembering: Past Awareness in the Medieval North

March 22, 2013

Last year’s Radcliffe Seminar, “The Ambiguities of Memory Construction in Medieval Texts: The Nordic Case,” inspired a series of theoretically-oriented essays which will appear later this year as Memory and Remembering: Past Awareness in the Medieval North. Special issue of Scandinavian Studies,  85:3. Ed. Pernille Hermann and Stephen A. Mitchell, containing the following:

“Places, Monuments and Objects. The Past in Ancient Scandinavia” (Anders Andrén)

rias_participants.jpg

The Ambiguities of Memory Construction in Medieval Texts: The Nordic Case

April 18, 2012

On April 13 and 14, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study sponsored an exploratory seminar on The Ambiguities of Memory Construction in Medieval Texts: The Nordic Case, with participants representing such disciplines as history, literature, folklore, and archaeology. front row, L-R: Joseph Harris; Gísli Sigurðsson; Pernille Hermann; Nicole Burgoyne; Merrill Kaplan; Agnes Arnórsdóttir; back row, L-R: Anders Andrén; Jürg Glauser; Thomas DuBois; Bjørn Bandlien; Stephen Mitchell.