RT Book
T1 Decolonising Medieval Fennoscandia: An Interdisciplinary Study of Norse-Saami Relations in the Medieval Period
T2 Religious Minorities in the North History, Politics, and Culture
A1 Wang, Solveig Marie
LA English
PP Berlin Boston
PB De Gruyter
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1841620211
AB The interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between Norse and Saami peoples in the medieval period and focuses on the multifaceted portrayal of Saami peoples in medieval texts. The investigative analysis is anchored in postcolonial methodologies and argues for the inherent need to decolonise the medieval source-material as well as recent historiography. This is achieved by presenting the historiographic and political background of research into Norse-Saami relations, before introducing an overview of textual sources discussing Saami peoples from the classical period to the late 1400s, an analysis of the textual motifs associated with the Saami in medieval literature (their relevance and prevalence), geo-political affairs, trading relations, personal relations and Saami presence in the south. By using decolonising tools to read Norse-Saami relations in medieval texts, influenced by archaeological material and postcolonial frameworks, the study challenges lingering colonial assumptions about the role of the Saami in Norse society. The current research episteme is re-adjusted to offer alternative readings of Saami characters and emphasis is put on agency, fluidity and the dynamic realities of the Saami medieval pasts
SN 9783110784305
K1 HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia
K1 Middle Ages
K1 Northern Literature
K1 Saami
K1 Scandinavia
K1 postcolonialism
K1 Hochschulschrift
DO 10.1515/9783110784305