Novembersymposiet 2009: Guilds, Towns, and Cultural Transmission in the North, 1300-1500
Towns, Guils, and Cultural Transmission in the North, 1300-1500
November 9th - 10th in Auditorium O 100
Final
programme.
Organized by Lars Bisgaard & Lars Boje Mortensen
on behalf of the Nordic Centre for Medieval Studies (Bergen, Helsinki, Göteborg, Odense)
November 9th:
9.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Flemming G. Andersen
Introduction
10.15 Lars Boje Mortensen (Odense) A comparative welcome
10.50 Bjørn Poulsen (Århus) Trade in the Baltic – a Danish perspective
11.25 Mike Burkhardt (Copenhagen) Business criminal or merchant pioneer? – Changes in trade strategies in late medieval Northern Europe
12.00 - 13.30: Lunch
The Towns
13.30 Lars Bisgaard (Odense) The competitions between guilds and cultural transmission
14.05 Sofia Gustafsson (Linköping) Swedish towns – A comparative study in urban organisation and political culture
14.40 - 15.15: Coffee break
The Merchants
15.15 Håkon Haugland (Bergen) German influence in Bergen and Oslo between 1300 and 1600
15.50 Ilkka Leskelä (Helsinki) Fifteenth-century commercial letters in the Baltic Sea region
16.25 Marko Lamberg (Jyväskylä) A Finnish minority identity within the merchant community of late medieval Stockholm?
November 10th:
Guilds and the Church
10.05 Tiina Kala (Tallinn) The legal frames of institutional religious practices in late medieval Tallinn
10.40-11.00: Coffee break
Guilds and Art
11.00 Anu Mänd (Tallinn) Art, patronage and memorial practices in Livonian guilds
11.35 Jan von Bonsdorff (Uppsala) Some reflections on the medieval guilds in Gdansk and the equestrian statue of St George in Stockholm
12.10-13.30: Lunch
Guilds and Feasts
13.30 Irma-Riitta Järvinen (Helsinki) St Anne, Mary’s mother – The spread of a new cult in the 15th Century
14.05 Leif Søndergaard (Odense) “Fastnachtspiele” in Northern Germany and Scandinavia
14.40-15.15: Coffee break
German Imprints
15.15 Kurt Braunmüller (Hamburg) How Middle Low German entered the mainland Scandinavian languages
15.50 Erik Opsahl (Vestfold) Water or beer? Anti-German sentiment in Scandinavia in the late Middle Ages
16.25-17.00: Final discussion