Converting Landscapes
March 22-23, Bangor University
Podcasts
Session 1: Burial Evidence and Problems of Interpretation
- Elizabeth O'Brien, 'Pagan or Christian? An Assessment of Burial Rites in Ireland 5th-8th Century AD (Powerpoint)
- Adrián Maldonado, 'Pictish Barrows and the Christian Landscape'
Session 2: From Pagan to Christian Landscapes
- Tomás Ó Carragáin, 'Ecclesiastical and Secular Settlements in Early Medieval Ireland: Distributions, Densities and Interactions'
- Morten Søvsø, 'Ansgar's Church in Ribe? The Viking Age Cemetery underneath the Cathedral' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis and Powerpoint)
Session 3: Stone Monuments and the Conversion of the Landscape
- Meggen Gondek, 'Pagan and Christian, Practice and Belief in a Pictish Landscape' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis and Powerpoint)
- Cecilia Ljung, 'Memorial Traditions in Transition - Stone Monuments as Part of Conversion of the Landscape in 11th-century Central Sweden' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis)
Session 4: Technology as a Tool of Conversion
- Thomas McErlean, 'Milling and Agricultural Technology on the Estates of the Early Church' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis and Powerpoint)
- Gabor Thomas, 'Marsh, Downland and Weald: Monastic Foundation and Rural Intensification' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis and Powerpoint)
Session 5: Urbanization and Christianity
- Rory Naismith, 'Conversion through the prism of art' (MP3 or Ogg Vorbis and Powerpoint)
- Lesley Abrams
Conference Report and Programme
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