Later this week I will be traveling across the Atlantic to one of the biggest conferences for medieval historians in the world, the Leeds International Medieval Congress. This year I am moderating a panel as well as presenting some of my own research. For my own paper I was curious about how the Vikings were used as a rhetorical device in Carolingian era texts, either for praise or for criticism. As I am currently revising the paper, I decided to spin off part of it into a post! Be warned, this is still a work in progress, and I am using this paper as a way of thinking through some of these ideas, so don’t go taking any of this as the last word on the subject!
Great stuff! Looking forward to hearing the paper next week.