Colonial Entanglements and the Medieval Nordic World: Norse Colonies and Indigenous Peoples

The book investigates the multifaceted entanglements between the many pasts and presents of the Nordic medieval period and colonialism. The edited volume contributes to the untangling of questions concerning how present, recent, and past structures of colonialism affect historiography on the medieval Nordic past. Consisting of thematically diverse chapters, the book brings together a range of approaches related to medieval colonialism in a Nordic context, touching both on medieval and medievalist factors. The editors and contributors understand their project as part of the growing conversation about colonialism and its reverberations in academia, and as a contribution to decolonization efforts. The volume will offer an interdisciplinary approach to oft-neglected aspects of the medieval world through an incorporation of more inclusive methodologies and re-readings of both medieval texts and previous scholarship.

Prof. Dr Cordelia Heß, Nordische Geschichte, Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany; Dr Solveig Marie Wang, Nordische Geschichte, Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany; Erik Wolf, Nordische Geschichte, Greifswald University, Greifswald, Germany.