Sainthood Scriptoria And Secular Erudition In Medieval And Early Modern Scandinavia

Author : Dario Bullitta
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503595481
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sainthood, Scriptoria, and Secular Erudition in Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia written by Dario Bullitta and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While medieval Iceland has long been celebrated and studied for its rich tradition of vernacular literature, in recent years attention has increasingly been paid to other areas of Old Norse-Icelandic scholarship, in particular the production of hagiographical and religious literature. At the same time, a similar renaissance has arisen in other fields, in particular Old Norse-Icelandic paleography, philology, and manuscript studies, thanks to the development of the so-called 'new philology', and its impact on our understanding of manuscripts. Central to these developments has been the scholarship of Kristen Wolf, one of the foremost authorities in the fields of Old Norse-Icelandic hagiography, biblical literature, paleography, codicology, textual criticism, and lexicography, who is the honorand of this volume. Taking Prof. Wolf's own research interests as its inspiration, this volume takes an unprecedented interdisciplinary approach to the theme of Sainthood, Scriptoria, and Secular Erudition in Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia in order both to celebrate Wolf's profound career, and to illustrate the many ways in which these seemingly different fields overlap and converse with each other in important and productive ways. From sculpture to sagas, and from skaldic verse to textual editions and the translation of hitherto unpublished works, the contributions gathered here offer new and important insights into our knowledge of medieval and early modern Scandinavian literature, history, and culture.

Author : Stephen Pelle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384611X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland written by Stephen Pelle and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.

Author : Richard North
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501513338
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anglo-Danish Empire written by Richard North and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Danish Empire is an interdisciplinary handbook for the Danish conquest of England in 1016 and the subsequent reign of King Cnut the Great. Bringing together scholars from the fields of history, literature, archaeology, and manuscript studies, the volume offers comprehensive analysis of England’s shift from Anglo-Saxon to Danish rule. It follows the history of this complicated transition, from the closing years of the reign of King Æthelred II and the Anglo-Danish wars, to Cnut’s accession to the throne of England and his consolidation of power at home and abroad. Ruling from 1016 to 1035, Cnut drew England into a Scandinavian empire that stretched from Ireland to the Baltic. His reign rewrote the place of Denmark and England within Europe, altering the political and cultural landscapes of both countries for decades to come.

Author : Christopher R. Clason
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000839060
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory in German Romanticism written by Christopher R. Clason and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory in German Romanticism treats memory as a core element in the production and reception of German art and literature of the Romantic era. The contributors explore the artistic expression of memory under the categories of imagination, image, and reception. Romantic literary aesthetics raises the subjective imagination to a level of primary importance for the creation of art. It goes beyond challenging reason and objectivity, two leading intellectual faculties of eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and instead elevates subjective invention to form and sustain memory and imagination. Indeed, memory and imagination, both cognitive functions, seek to assemble the elements of one’s own experience, either directed toward the past (memory) or toward the future (imagination), coherently into a narrative. And like memories, images hold the potential to elicit charged emotional responses; those responses live on through time, becoming part of the spatial and temporal reception of the artist and their work. While imagination generates and images trigger and capture memories, reception creates a temporal-spatial context for art, organizing it and rendering it "memorable," both for good and for bad. Thus, through the categories of imagination, image, and reception, this volume explores the phenomenon of German Romantic memory from different perspectives and in new contexts.

Author : Carsten Selch Jensen
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580443249
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea written by Carsten Selch Jensen and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the history of saints and sainthood in the Middle Ages in the Baltic Region, with a special focus on the cult of saints in Russia, Prussia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia (Livonia). Essays explore such topics as the introduction of foreign (and "old") saints into new regions, the creation of new local cults of saints in newly Christianized regions, the role of the cult of saints in the creation of political and lay identities, and the potential role of saints in times of war.

Author : Karoline Kjesrud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503579016
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Knowledge in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia written by Karoline Kjesrud and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas DuBois
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442691247
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sanctity in the North written by Thomas DuBois and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-02-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With original translations of primary texts and articles by leading researchers in the field, Sanctity in the North gives an introduction to the literary production associated with the cult of the saints in medieval Scandinavia. For more than five hundred years, Nordic clerics and laity venerated a host of saints through liturgical celebrations, written manuscripts, visual arts, and oral traditions. Textual evidence of this widespread and important aspect of medieval spirituality abounds. Written biographies (or vitae), compendia of witnessed miracles, mass propers, homilies, sagas and chronicles, dramatic scripts, hymns, and ballads are among the region's surviving medieval manuscripts and early published books. Sanctity in the North features English translations of texts from Latin or vernacular Nordic languages, in many cases for the first time. The accompanying essays concerning the texts, saints, cults, and history of the period complement the translations and reflect the contributors' own disciplinary groundings in folklore, philology, medieval, and religious studies.

Author : Christian Oertel
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503555072
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cult of St Erik in Medieval Sweden written by Christian Oertel and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive monograph on St Erik, the author follows the cult of the Swedish royal saint from its obscure beginnings in the twelfth century up to its climax in the time of the Kalmar Union (1397-1523). The focus of the book lies on the interaction of the cult with different groups within medieval Swedish society and these group's attempts to utilize the prestige of the saint to further their political aims. From the middle of the thirteenth century, the cult was particularly connected to the archbishopric of Uppsala and the royal dynasty of Bjalbo. During the fifteenth century the Swedish royal saint symbolized (together with St Olaf of Norway and St Knut of Denmark) the three kingdoms of the Kalmar Union. At the same time, his prestige was successfully employed in the propaganda of King Karl Knutsson (Bonde) and the three Sture-riksforestandare to legitimate their anti-Union politics. In order to gain a broader perspective, the author uses a wide variety of sources. These include a number of texts which contain information about the cult of the saint (legend, miracle collection, offices, sermons, chronicles, charters). In addition, different sorts of depictions showing St Erik on wall paintings, altarpieces, seals, and coins are used in order to give a comprehensive account of the multifaceted veneration of this saint.

Author : Carsten S. Jensen
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781472409508
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saints and Sainthood Around the Baltic Sea written by Carsten S. Jensen and published by Lund Humphries Publishers. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Middle Ages the regions around the Baltic Sea became drawn into the sphere of an expanding Christian culture. The lands and regions subjected to these processes of Christianisation and colonisation had to redefine their past as well as their present in the light of a new religious, cultural and mental framework. Thus, in historical terms, they would redefine both the past and the present through oral and literary processes.

Author : Phillip Pulsiano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138063020
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Scandinavia 1993 written by Phillip Pulsiano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art. Written by a team of expert contributors, the encyclopedia offers those who lack command of the various Scandinavian languages a basic tool for the study of Medieval Scandinavia from roughly the Migration Period to the Reformation. With full-page maps, useful supplementary photos, cross-references and a comprehensive index, this work will be a valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas, the Viking age, and Old English history and literature, and for anyone interested in the cultural and historical heritage of Scandinavia.