MEMG Medieval and Early Modern Group

This group brings together scholars from disciplines within the humanities who specialize in the medieval and early modern time periods. The group organizes research seminars and other activites to promote interest and collaboration around commonly chosen research themes and problems.

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MEMG Medieval and Early Modern Groups an interdisciplinary community of researchers from within and without Mid Sweden University who work on the medieval and early modern periods. Such specializations are becoming increasingly rare and there is a need to safeguard and cultivate specialized knowledge and skills.

There is also a need to create arenas and points of contact between scholars from different disciplines, who may be a small minority within their own subject, which in many cases may also be a small one in itself. Another important aim of this group is to bridge a problamtic traditional chronology dividing the history of Europe into two arbitrary blocks, despite the great continuity that is so evident between these periods.

Current activities:

25 November, 15.30–17.00 (M301).

Ingvar Sjöblom (Department of Military History, The Swedish Defence University), "Reformationen av militär själavård i svenska flottan. Präster och själavård 1527–1570". The text (in Swedish) will be distributed before the seminar.

9 December, 15.00–16.30 (M408).

A discussion of Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, New York/London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

Past activities:

June 12, 14.00 in M408.

MEMG is visited by dr. Lena Oetzel (Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg), who will present her research on the theme: “’That we don’t know, how to pay for our upkeeping.’ – Talking about finances and clientele relations at the Westphalian peace congress”. Oetzel’s research is focused on formal and informal practices in the history of diplomacy, especially in the context of the Westphalian peace negotiations. She has also written extensively on the legitimation and criticism of rulers in early modern England.