Instructor:
Oren Falk
Lecture room:
165 McGraw Hall
Office:
323 McGraw
(607) 255-3311
Lecture times:
Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:10-11:25
e-mail: of24@cornell.edu
Office hours: TBA (you an always contact me to make an appointment)
[This is the definitive version of this syllabus, subject to updates; it supersedes previous print versions]
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This course surveys the history of Scandinavia in the era of the dragon ship, mead horn and Danegeld, ca. 800-1100 AD. Our goal will be to set Norse history within its European context by observing similarities with structures and processes elsewhere in the medieval world, the better to perceive the differences that make the Norse sphere unique. We will look at Norse activity in continental Scandinavia , in Western and Eastern Europe , and in the North Atlantic . You will be asked to work with some challenging primary sources; often, the trick will be not so much to wrest answers from these sources as to figure out what questions may be posed to them profitably in the first place.
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Oren Falk, Associate Professor
Department of History, Cornell University
Page last updated on: 20 February, 2012