National identity, classical tradition, Christian reform and colonial expansion at the ends of the earth: an analysis of representations of the Swedish and Norwegian peoples in Adam of Bremen’s history of the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen and the Irish in Gerald of Wales’s topography of Ireland

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dc.contributor.advisorScully, Jeremiah Den
dc.contributor.authorForde, Britt
dc.contributor.funderCollege of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Corken
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-09T12:47:58Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.submitted2016
dc.description.abstractThis thesis compares the representations of the Swedes and the Norwegians in Adam of Bremen’s History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen (c 1074) and the Irish in the first recension of Gerald of Wales’ Topography of Ireland (1188). Adam and Gerald placed their respective locations and peoples of which they write within the concepts of ancient and medieval geographical and ethnographical thought, as remote islands in the Ocean that surrounded the tripartite terrestrial landmass that constituted the known world. This Oceanic location was believed to influence nature and wildlife as well as the character of the inhabitants; thus they shared a common geographical environment, yet their depictions of the inhabitants sharing this peripheral Oceanic location is widely different. The classical stereotypes about remote Oceanic locations like Sweden, Norway and Ireland encompassed two separate traditions of ethnographical and geographical thought, one positive and one negative. This thesis argues that the cumulative image of the inhabitants that emerges in Adam’s work is a positive representation of the Swedes and Norwegians of his own era, whereas the image of the Irish in Gerald’s narrative is starkly negative. This thesis will suggest that the secular and ecclesiastic context of each writer and their engagement with earlier sources and models, determines their approach to the people of whom they write: Adam’s reform ideals in an era of imperial and papal strife in Germany; Gerald’s concern with church reform, at a time of crusades and the ongoing attempts at a conquest of Ireland.en
dc.description.sponsorshipCollege of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, University College Cork (Michael Joseph McEnery Memorial Scholarship)en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationForde, B. 2016. National identity, classical tradition, Christian reform and colonial expansion at the ends of the earth: an analysis of representations of the Swedish and Norwegian peoples in Adam of Bremen’s history of the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen and the Irish in Gerald of Wales’s topography of Ireland. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3612
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dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.rights© 2016, Britt Forde.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en
dc.subjectAdam of Bremenen
dc.subjectGerald of Walesen
dc.subjectNational stereotypesen
dc.subjectBarbariansen
dc.subjectPolytheistsen
dc.subjectAncient and medieval geographyen
dc.subjectMappae mundien
dc.subjectPeripheryen
dc.subjectSalvation historyen
dc.subjectColonialismen
dc.subjectChurch reformen
dc.subjectMonstrous peoplesen
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dc.titleNational identity, classical tradition, Christian reform and colonial expansion at the ends of the earth: an analysis of representations of the Swedish and Norwegian peoples in Adam of Bremen’s history of the archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen and the Irish in Gerald of Wales’s topography of Irelanden
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD (Arts)en
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