开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 8 weeks
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所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 人文 大学或机构: University of Zurich（苏黎世大学） 授课老师： Sandra Schneeberger |
课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/sagaspace
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Space is a basic category of human thought. Over the last decades it became a very productive scientific category, too. Thinking about spaces, places, locations, or landscapes covers a spectrum of meanings from the concrete and material through to the abstract and metaphorical.
Week 1
Introduction and course overview: space as a key element of narration and representation
Week 2
Construction of Space in Mythology: Eddic cosmography
Sources: Prose-Edda, Poetic Edda
Week 3
Discovering new spaces: geographical and social aspects; memory and space
Sources: Sagas (Grænlendinga saga, Vinland saga)
Week 4
Cosmography: descriptions of the world in texts
Sources: Leiðarvísir (Itinerary of Nikulas)
Week 5
Mapping the World: Cartography
Sources: Carta Marina
Week 6
Spatiality in visual media
Sources: picture-stones, runic inscriptions, paintings, woodcarvings, manuscripts
Week 7
Archaeology:
Sources:
Week 8 Language and space: spatial thinking in language; place names
Sources:
Conclusion and outlook
Explore with us the fascinating ways of thinking about space in Viking Age and Old Norse culture. Together we will discuss how space is conceptualised and depicted in diverse Old Norse genres and traditions.
