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Medieval Iceland
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Author : Jesse L. Byock
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1990-02-07
Medieval Iceland written by Jesse L. Byock and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-02-07 with History categories.
Gift of Joan Wall. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-248) and index. * glr 20090610.
Culture And History In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Kirsten Hastrup
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1985
Culture And History In Medieval Iceland written by Kirsten Hastrup and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Ethnology categories.
In 930, Iceland first established a common law for the island and became an autonomous republic, which lasted until it came under the sovereignty of the Norwegian king nearly three and a half centuries later. This volume is a two-part analysis of that society, known as the Icelandic "commonwealth" or "Freestate." The first section examines how medieval Icelanders classified and perceived such domains as time, space, kinship, political organization, and cosmology, linking together these various realms to present an integrated picture of the society's world-view. The second section focuses on the changes that took place during the period in the fields of ecology, demography, religion, property relations, and the law, and explains how and why these changes, interacting with more fundamental social structures and beliefs, undermined--and ultimately destroyed--the society.
Saints And Their Legacies In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Stephen Pelle
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2021
Saints And Their Legacies In Medieval Iceland written by Stephen Pelle and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Iceland categories.
An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.
Landscape Tradition And Power In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Chris Callow
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-08-03
Landscape Tradition And Power In Medieval Iceland written by Chris Callow and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-03 with History categories.
In this volume Chris Callow provides a critical reading of the evidence for changes in Iceland’s socio-political structures from its colonisation to the 1260s when leading Icelanders swore oaths of loyalty to the Norwegian king.
Violence And Risk In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Oren Falk
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Violence And Risk In Medieval Iceland written by Oren Falk and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject 'violence' itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we employ this term? How may we approach the category 'violence' in a specifically historical way, and what is it that we explain when we write its history? Astonishingly, such questions are seldom even voiced, much less debated, in the historical literature. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered Isle lays out a cultural history model for understanding violence. Using interdisciplinary tools, it argues that violence is a positively constructed asset, deployed along three principal axes - power, signification, and risk. Analysing violence in instrumental terms, as an attempt to coerce others, focuses on power. Analysing it in symbolic terms, as an attempt to communicate meanings, focuses on signification. Finally, analysing it in cognitive terms, as an attempt to exercise agency despite imperfect control over circumstances, focuses on risk. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland explores a place and time notorious for its rampant violence. Iceland's famous sagas hold treasure troves of circumstantial data, ideally suited for past-tense ethnography, yet demand that the reader come up with subtle and innovative methodologies for recovering histories from their stories. The sagas throw into sharp relief the kinds of analytic insights we obtain through cultural interpretation, offering lessons that apply to other epochs too.
Culture And History In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Kirsten Hastrup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Culture And History In Medieval Iceland written by Kirsten Hastrup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
Medieval Iceland
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Author : Jesse L. Byock
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1990-02-07
Medieval Iceland written by Jesse L. Byock and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-02-07 with History categories.
Gift of Joan Wall. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-248) and index. * glr 20090610.
Saga
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Author : Jeff Janoda
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Saga written by Jeff Janoda and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Fiction categories.
This retelling of the ancient Saga of the People of Eyri is a modern classic. Absolutely gripping and compulsively readable, Booklist said this book, "does what good historical fiction is supposed to do: put a face on history that is recognizable to all." And medieval expert Tom Shippey, writing for the Times Literary Supplement said, "Sagas look like novels superficially, in their size and layout and plain language, but making their narratives into novels is a trick which has proved beyond most who have tried it. Janoda's Saga provides a model of how to do it: pick out the hidden currents, imagine how they would seem to peripheral characters, and as with all historical novels, load the narrative with period detail drawn from the scholars. No better saga adaptation has been yet written."
The Mappae Mundi Of Medieval Iceland
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Author : Dale Kedwards
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2020
The Mappae Mundi Of Medieval Iceland written by Dale Kedwards and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Art categories.
Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Icelandic Hemispherical World Maps -- Chapter 2 The Icelandic Zonal Map -- Chapter 3 The Two Maps from Viðey -- Chapter 4 Iceland in Europe -- Chapter 5 Forty Icelandic Priests and a Map of the World -- Conclusion -- Map Texts and Translations -- The Icelandic Hemispherical World Maps -- The Icelandic Zonal Map -- The Larger Viðey Map -- The Smaller Viðey Map -- Bibliography -- Index -- Studies in Old Norse Literature.
The Development Of Education In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Ryder Patzuk-Russell
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-02-08
The Development Of Education In Medieval Iceland written by Ryder Patzuk-Russell 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 2021-02-08 with History categories.
Medieval Iceland is known for the fascinating body of literary works it produced, from ornate court poetry to mythological treatises to sagas of warrior-poets and feud culture. This book investigates the institutions and practices of education which lay behind not only this literary corpus, but the whole of medieval Icelandic culture, religion, and society. By bringing together a broad spectrum of sources, including sagas, law codes, and grammatical treatises, it addresses the history of education in medieval Iceland from multiple perspectives. It shows how the slowly developing institutions of the church shaped educational practices within an entirely rural society with its own distinct vernacular culture. It emphasizes the importance of Latin, despite the lack of surviving manuscripts, and teaching and learning in a highly decentralized environment. Within this context, it explores how medieval grammatical education was adapted for bilingual clerical education, which in turn helped create a separate and fully vernacularized grammatical discourse.