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Financement de l’UE (1 999 519 €) : Mapping the Reception and Legacy of the Vikings in Europe Hor03/03/2025 Programme de recherche et d'innovation de l'UE « Horizon »
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Mapping the Reception and Legacy of the Vikings in Europe
The modern understanding of the Vikings has developed over a thousand years to reflect the politics, identities and cultural memories of very different communities across Europe. This shared history impacts on many aspects of contemporary society and is appropriated in increasingly diverse ways. NorseMap posits that the oversignification of the Viking past can be approached as an ecology of interactions within which ideas of European culture and identity are made and remade. While this working hypothesis is based on observation of the current reception landscape, it is difficult to test because of a lack of data on public perceptions of the Vikings and the limitations of reception studies as currently conceived to map such a complex legacy. The guiding question that NorseMap asks – how is the Viking past used today, and how has public understanding of the Vikings evolved over time? – thus poses profound challenges for the discipline at both an applied and conceptual level. The applied challenge is how we capture widely dispersed data on uses of the Viking past in the present day. The conceptual challenge involves rethinking reception studies so it can address historical legacy at a macro level and account for the complexities of the reception ecosystem. NorseMap will make a step change in cultural heritage crowdsourcing, taking the model of app-based GIS mapping used for large-scale citizen science documentation projects and adapting it to the humanities. Reorienting the discipline to map the Viking legacy will entail drawing together various strands of reception history – Literature & Art; Branding & Tourism; Politics & Identity – and demonstrating how they have interacted to create a uniquely pliable cultural memory, using a conceptual lens inspired by Actor-Network Theory. The resulting Deep Map of reception will reveal the multiple influences that intersect in any individual reimagining of the Vikings and open up new ways of thinking about the remediated past.
| University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork | 1 999 519 € |
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101169706
Cette annonce se réfère à une date antérieure et ne reflète pas nécessairement l’état actuel. L’état actuel est présenté à la page suivante : University College Cork Unincorporated Trust Fund, Cork, Irlande.
