After the Vikings: A history of Scandinavia from the middle ages to modern
This course will include battles, massacres, and revolts a-plenty, but there will also be the most sublime art, music, and culture. Skål!
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About this event
Now be honest… how much Scandinavian history do you know from after the Viking Age? Did you know, for example, that Denmark used to own Norway… until Sweden did? Ever heard of the Kalmar Union or the House of Vasa? Some of these things are possibly at least a little familiar, but on this course we’ll put them into context along with many more.
Yes – this is the history of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland from the establishment of Christianity (quite the moveable feast!) until the twentieth century. There will be battles, massacres, and revolts a-plenty, but there will also be the most sublime art, music, and culture. This is after all, the world of Thorvaldson and Krøyer, Grieg and Sibelius, Ibsen and Strindberg. And yes – Munch will arrive at some point to scream at us!
But let’s not forget the land itself. This will also be a geographical tour – south to north, of a sparsely-populated landscape, which has always punched above its weight. Skål!!
No preparation or reading is required.
No exams, no homework - just entertaining, informative, and accessible learning for pleasure.
You can join us 'live' via Zoom and/or watch recordings of the lectures on demand.
Delivery:
A lecture-based course, delivered via 10 x 2-hour sessions, 18:45-20:45, UK time:
Wednesday September 24
Wednesday October 1
Wednesday October 8
Wednesday October 15
Wednesday October 22
Wednesday November 5
Wednesday November 12
Wednesday November 19
Wednesday November 26
Wednesday December 3
The course will be delivered via 10 live Zoom sessions, and include opportunity for questions and discussion.
Recordings of the lecture elements of each session (with discussion elements edited out for GDPR reasons) will also be available – posted within 48 hours of each session, and available on demand for 2 weeks thereafter.
Frequently asked questions
No problem! We record all of our courses. Recordings are usually posted within 48 hours of broadcast, and available for 2 weeks thereafter (officially. Let us know if you'd like them to be available beyond that). NB Recordings are shorter than the live sessions, but all lecture content is included.
Absolutely! We take Q&As before a 10-minute break at approx. half-time, and there's also time at the end of each session. Sometimes we have very lively Q&A sessions, and sometimes there's just a screen of happy faces. Either's fine by us, and it's not compulsory to join in if you don't want to.
Don't worry! Our recordings just show the slides, plus Robert in a little window. To comply with data privacy (& any squeamishness!), we edit out all personal details - i.e. pre-session chats and Q&A sections - and retain all the actual content.
Good question! We've set up a YouTube channel, with snippets from previous courses, to help you to work that out. You'll find them from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfNz_GwYH-g
We’re new to Eventbrite, so I know that I may not have thought of everything you might like to ask. Do please email me at robert@wrighthistory.uk and we'll take it from there!
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