Lectures at Renmin University, 2018

【主讲人简介】

Poul Holm，爱尔兰都柏林三一学院（Trinity College Dublin, Department of History）历史学教授，曾任欧洲环境史学会主席。Holm教授研究1550-1914年间战争对挪威、瑞典与丹麦地区日常生活的影响，并出版了多部与中世纪和近代早期海洋环境、海岸社会与海洋文化相关的著作，此外，还发表了上百篇论文。Holm教授对维京人定居爱尔兰的问题特别感兴趣。目前其主要关注用跨学科的方法（海洋科学与历史学）研究1400-1700年间的北大西洋渔业。

【研讨班时间与地点】

9月19日、9月26日、10月10日

下午2:00-4:00

地点：公二2319

【研讨班对象】

本科生与研究生

【研讨班语言】

英语

【研讨班形式】

讲座+讨论

【研讨班规模】

不超过20人

【研讨班报名方式】

人文楼318郭相宜老师处报名

【研讨班简介】

维京人的掠夺、探索与征服改变了中世纪欧洲。本研讨班将介绍维京人的思想、船只、政治与生活，研究维京人的土地、雄心/野心、受害者与遗产。研讨班将尤其关注暴力、权力与贸易之间的互动，以及人们如何感受联系的影响。资料来源将包括考古学、修道院编年史、法律与传说。

Norse raids, explorations and conquests changed medieval Europe. The Nordic world challenged Christian and Islamic civilisations and accelerated state formation, commerce and warfare. Around 790, the Vikings emerged as heathen pirates but by the tenth century Norse settlers were busy establishing powerful and wealthy colonies in Normandy, Britain and Ireland, they were laying the foundations of Russia and settling distant lands across the North Atlantic. By 1100 a fusion of southern and northern influences was shaping the High Middle Ages and the Icelandic sagas were written up by the thirteenth century as some of the best stories ever told.

The lectures will outline the mentality, the ships, the politics and lives of people, it will study Viking lands, ambitions, victims and legacies. Particular emphasis will be on understanding the interplay of violence, power and trade, and how people experienced the effects of contact. Sources will include archaeology, monastic annals, laws, and sagas.

Lecture 1. The first Viking age, 790-900: overcoming the tyranny of distance: attacks, ships, beliefs

The lecture will focus on the classic Pirenne-Bolin discussion as rekindled by McCormick: the role of the European periphery, was the Viking experience destructive or central to the formation of medieval Europe – and why did the Scandinavians begin to attack?

Lecture 2. A Viking world, 790-1169: The Dublin kingdom – slaves, trade, sagas and myths

The lecture will look in detail at one of the many polities established by Viking invaders as it was transformed into a central hub of West European trade and the stronghold of a mercenary fleet that changed the dynamics – and stories - of medieval Ireland

Lecture 3. Viking migrant states and the Norman legacy, 1000-1200

The legacy of the Vikings is evident in the foundation of many European states. The lecture will show how migrant Vikings designed a state on virgin soil in Iceland, how the Scandinavians influenced state building in Russian, England and Normandy, and how the Viking experience created Scandinavian kingdoms

推荐阅读书目：

Stefan Brink (ed.), The Viking World,London: Routledge, 2008.

Russell Andrew McDonald and Angus A. Somerville (eds.), The Viking Age: A Reader, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.

罗伯特·福西耶编：《剑桥插图中世纪史：350-1520》，陈志强等译，济南：山东画报出版社，2018年。

拓展阅读书目：

南希·玛丽·布朗：《象牙维京人：刘易斯棋中的北欧历史与神话》，赵越译，北京：生活·读书·新知三联书店，2018年。

朱迪斯·M·本内特，C·沃伦·霍利斯特：《欧洲中世纪史（第10版）》，杨宁等译，上海：上海社会科学院出版社，2018年。

拉尔斯·布朗沃思：《欧洲中世纪三部曲》，陈丽等译，北京：中信出版社，2017年。

Helena Hamerow, Early Medieval Settlements: The Archaeology of Rural Communities in North-West Europe 400-900, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Cambridge Medieval Textbooks (already published 29 books):

https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/cambridge-medieval-textbooks/31676569F49C87D059142A6D5AFD1581