Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Skandinavische Studien (SGSS) Société suisse d’études scandinaves Einladung zu einem Vortrag von Dr. Dale Kedwards (Universität Zürich) Maps and Geopolitics in Medieval Iceland Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2015, 18.15 Uhr Universität Zürich, Deutsches Seminar Schönberggasse 9, 8001 Zürich, SOD-0-002 The world maps drawn in medieval Iceland (c. 1200–1400) have enjoyed little prominence in either the history of cartography, or the study of medieval Icelandic history and culture. This lecture explores some of the roles that maps played in medieval Icelandic culture with reference to two maps preserved in a book fragment that dates to the second quarter of the thirteenth century. It will demonstrate that these two maps are closely related to a geopolitical document of more local significance written in the same manuscript book: a register of 40 highborn Icelandic priests. I will demonstrate that maps were – as they are today – social documents that can be used to express ideas about national and cultural identities, and the relationships between political regions. It shows that these early maps are lively witnesses to Icelandic preoccupations at the time they were drawn.
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