Literacy In Medieval And Early Modern Scandinavian Culture
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Literacy In Medieval And Early Modern Scandinavian Culture
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Author : Pernille Hermann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Literacy In Medieval And Early Modern Scandinavian Culture written by Pernille Hermann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Over recent decades the concept of literacy has been an important field of discussion in Medieval and Early Modern studies, and questions concerning the uses of literacy, the number of literates, differing writing systems, modes of communication and the interaction between orality and literacy have occupied researchers from various disciplines. The aim of this volume is to introduce Scandinavian literacy to the international field of research. On the one hand, to provide a basis that can contribute to a better general understanding of literacy. Because of the volume's interdisciplinary approach, a relatively wide range of material is invoked to illuminate the subject matter.
Saints And Sainthood Around The Baltic Sea
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Author : Carsten Selch Jensen
language : en
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Release Date : 2018-04-15
Saints And Sainthood Around The Baltic Sea written by Carsten Selch Jensen and has been published by Medieval Institute Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-15 with History categories.
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.
Handbook Of Pre Modern Nordic Memory Studies
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Author : Jürg Glauser
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2018-11-19
Handbook Of Pre Modern Nordic Memory Studies written by Jürg Glauser and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly shown its ability to open new windows on Nordic Studies as well. The entries in this book document the work-to-date of this approach on the pre-modern Nordic world (mainly the Viking Age and the Middle Ages, but including as well both earlier and later periods). Given that Memory Studies is an ever expanding critical strategy, the approximately eighty contributors in this volume also discuss the potential for future research in this area. Topics covered range from texts to performance to visual and other aspects of material culture, all approached from within an interdisciplinary framework. International specialists, coming from such relevant fields as archaeology, mythology, history of religion, folklore, history, law, art, literature, philology, language, and mediality, offer assessments on the relevance of Memory Studies to their disciplines and show it at work in case studies. Finally, this handbook demonstrates the various levels of culture where memory had a critical impact in the pre-modern North and how deeply embedded the role of memory is in the material itself.
Religious Reading In The Lutheran North
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Author : Charlotte Appel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2011-01-18
Religious Reading In The Lutheran North written by Charlotte Appel and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-18 with History categories.
Religious Reading in the Lutheran North opens up the doors to a part of early modern European history that has often been overlooked. In the Nordic countries, an abundance of religious literature in the vernacular was produced in the centuries following the Reformation, and reading was almost exclusively taught to children in a Lutheran Protestant setting. Literacy rates were high, and by the mid eighteenth century around ninety per cent of both men and women could read. The eight contributions to the present book investigate different aspects of religious reading in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Greenland, looking at the publication and dissemination strategies of authors and clergymen, as well as reading habits and interpretations among Scandinavian readers.
Force Of Words A Cultural History Of Christianity And Politics In Medieval Iceland 11th 13th Centuries
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Author : Haraldur Hreinsson
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-03-29
Force Of Words A Cultural History Of Christianity And Politics In Medieval Iceland 11th 13th Centuries written by Haraldur Hreinsson and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-29 with History categories.
Haraldur Hreinsson examines the social and political significance of the Christian religion as the Roman Church was taking hold in medieval Iceland in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
Exploring Textbooks And Cultural Change In Nordic Education 1536 2020
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Author : Merethe Roos
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-02-22
Exploring Textbooks And Cultural Change In Nordic Education 1536 2020 written by Merethe Roos and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-22 with Education categories.
This volume explores Nordic textbooks chronologically and empirically from the Protestant reformation to our own time. The chapters are written by scholars from Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, and deploy a wide range of methods, representing different academic fields.
The Routledge Research Companion To The Medieval Icelandic Sagas
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Author : Ármann Jakobsson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-02-17
The Routledge Research Companion To The Medieval Icelandic Sagas written by Ármann Jakobsson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials. This volume will be of interest to Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists in general.
Faith And Knowledge In Late Medieval And Early Modern Scandinavia
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Author : Karoline Kjesrud
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2019-09-15
Faith And Knowledge In Late Medieval And Early Modern Scandinavia written by Karoline Kjesrud and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-15 with Paganism categories.
This book investigates the interface between faith and knowledge in Scandinavia in the centuries before and after the Reformation, a period in which the line between belief and knowledge was often blurred, and local traditions remained influential. While Scandinavia was undoubtedly an integral part of Latin Christendom before the arrival of Lutheranism, the essays gathered together in this volume demonstrate that religious discourse still took a unique form in this region. Faith was influenced by magical practices centred on remnants of Nordic paganism, local wisdom literature, and metaphoric language about the divine that diverged considerably from that of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Texts, motifs, and practices that were common throughout Europe were also transformed and altered within this northern setting.00Covering the late medieval up to the early modern period, this volume offers new insights into intellectual culture in Scandinavia, and the remarkable longevity of local beliefs even into the early post-Reformation period.
Mnemonic Echoing In Old Norse Sagas And Eddas
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Author : Pernille Hermann
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-08-22
Mnemonic Echoing In Old Norse Sagas And Eddas written by Pernille Hermann and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book brings together Old Norse-Icelandic literature and critical strategies of memory, and argues that some of the particularities of this vernacular textual tradition are explained by the fact that this literature derives from, represents, and incorporates into its designs mnemonic devices of different kinds. Even if Old Norse-Icelandic manuscript culture is relatively silent about the mnemonic context of the literature, the texts themselves exhibit multiple reminiscences of memory. By showing that this literature reveals glimpses of mnemonic technologies at the same time as it testifies to a cultural memory, this study demonstrates how ‘the past’, and narrative traditions about the past, were constructed in a dynamic relationship with ideas that existed at the time the texts were written. Moreover, the book deals with the function of memory in early book-culture, with metaphors of memory, and with mnemonic cues such as spatiality and visuality. With its new readings of canonical texts like the Íslendingasǫgur, the Prose Edda and selected eddic poems, as well as of less widely studied branches of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, such as the sagas of bishops and religious texts, this book will be of interest to Old Norse scholars and to scholars interested in medieval Scandinavia and memory studies.
The Social Consequences Of Literacy In Medieval Scandinavia
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Author : Arnved Nedkvitne
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2004
The Social Consequences Of Literacy In Medieval Scandinavia written by Arnved Nedkvitne and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Between 1000 and 1536 Scandinavia was transformed from a conglomerate of largely pre-state societies to societies characterized by state governments. Its most important single aspect was the increasing monopolization of 'legitimate' violence by the state. But Church and State also used literacy to strengthen social control, and they did so in central and important areas: jurisdiction, religious conformity and accounting. Thus, they hoped to control the areas they understood to be most important. Their intentions were largely fulfilled. The main driving force behind the transition to state societies was the monopolization of legitimate violence, but the use of literacy made a difference as well. By writing down oral 'laws', and by increasingly resorting to writing in traditionally oral judicial procedures, the state gradually gained control of institutionalized social practices with a minimum of 'legitimate violence'. Written laws made social norms more precise and easier to change, a necessity in an increasingly complex society. Writing also strengthened social cohesion by creating common religious rituals, procedures and narratives. Written accounts made taxation more stable and therefore seem more just and acceptable. The basic social transformations of the period cannot be attributed to increasing literacy alone. But the written word rendered the reorganization of society in Scandinavia more peaceful and gradual, strengthened social conformity and cohesion.