Saints And Their Legacies In Medieval Iceland
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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.
Dominican Resonances In Medieval Iceland
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-08-16
Dominican Resonances In Medieval Iceland written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-16 with History categories.
This book explores the life and times of Jón Halldórsson, bishop of Skálholt (1322–39), a Dominican who had studied the liberal arts and canon law in Paris and Bologna, and provides a snapshot with wider implications for understanding of medieval literacy.
Poetry In Sagas Of Icelanders
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Author : Margaret Clunies Ross
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2022-08-16
Poetry In Sagas Of Icelanders written by Margaret Clunies Ross and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-16 with Sagas categories.
Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving written form during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Modern readers and critics often praise their apparently realistic descriptions of the lives, loves and feuds of settler families of the first century and a half of Iceland's commonwealth period (c. AD 970-1030), but this ascription of realism fails to account for one of the most important components of these sagas, the abundance of skaldic poetry, mostly in dróttkvætt "court metre", which comes to saga heroes' lips at moments of crisis. These presumed voices from the past and their integration into the narrative present of the written sagas are the subject of this book. It investigates what motivated Icelandic writers to develop this particular mode, and what particular literary effects they achieved by it. It also looks at the various paths saga writers took within the evolving prosimetrum (a mixed verse and prose form), and explores their likely reasons for using poetry in diverse ways. Consideration is also given to the evolution of the genre in the context of the growing popularity in Iceland of romantic and legendary sagas. A final chapter is devoted to understanding why a minority of sagas of Icelanders do not use poetry at all in their narratives.g prosimetrum (a mixed verse and prose form), and explores their likely reasons for using poetry in diverse ways. Consideration is also given to the evolution of the genre in the context of the growing popularity in Iceland of romantic and legendary sagas. A final chapter is devoted to understanding why a minority of sagas of Icelanders do not use poetry at all in their narratives.g prosimetrum (a mixed verse and prose form), and explores their likely reasons for using poetry in diverse ways. Consideration is also given to the evolution of the genre in the context of the growing popularity in Iceland of romantic and legendary sagas. A final chapter is devoted to understanding why a minority of sagas of Icelanders do not use poetry at all in their narratives.g prosimetrum (a mixed verse and prose form), and explores their likely reasons for using poetry in diverse ways. Consideration is also given to the evolution of the genre in the context of the growing popularity in Iceland of romantic and legendary sagas. A final chapter is devoted to understanding why a minority of sagas of Icelanders do not use poetry at all in their narratives.
Reimagining Christendom
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Author : Joel D. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2023-03-14
Reimagining Christendom written by Joel D. Anderson and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-14 with History categories.
With its expanding legal system and its burgeoning throngs of lawyers, legates, and documents, the papacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has often been credited with spearheading a governmental revolution that molded the high medieval church into an increasingly disciplined, uniform, and machine-like institution. Reimagining Christendom offers a fresh appraisal of these developments from a surprising and distinctive vantage point. Tracing the web of textual ties that connected the northern fringes of Europe to the Roman see, Joel D. Anderson explores the ways in which Norse writers recruited, refashioned, and repurposed the legal principles and official documents of the Roman church for their own ends. Drawing on little-known vernacular sagas, Reimagining Christendom is populated with tales of married bishops, fictitious and forged papal bulls, and imagined canon law proceedings. These narratives, Anderson argues, demonstrate how Norse writers adapted and reconfigured the institutional power of the church in order to legitimize some of the thoroughly abnormal practices of their native bishops. In the process, Icelandic clerics constructed their own visions of ecclesiastical order--visions that underscore the thoroughly malleable character of the Roman church's text-based government and that articulate diverse ways of belonging to the far-flung imagined community of high medieval Christendom.
Holy Vikings
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Author : Carl Phelpstead
language : en
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Release Date : 2007
Holy Vikings written by Carl Phelpstead and has been published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Northmen categories.
The Old Norse Icelandic Legend Of Saint Barbara
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Author : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
language : en
Publisher: Pims
Release Date : 2000
The Old Norse Icelandic Legend Of Saint Barbara written by Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies and has been published by Pims this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Christian saints categories.
The legend of Saint Barbara is preserved in two 15th-century manuscripts which are presented here on facing pages followed by an English translation. In addition, Wolf presents the Latin source text Passio Sancte Barbare . The texts are preceded by a lengthy and heavily annotated discussion of the legend's manuscripts, sources and content which also places the legend within the literary and historical context of Scandinavia and Iceland.
The Legends Of The Saints In Old Norse Icelandic Prose
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Author : Kirsten Wolf
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2013-01-01
The Legends Of The Saints In Old Norse Icelandic Prose written by Kirsten Wolf and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
With The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose, Kirsten Wolf has undertaken a complete revision of the fifty-year-old handlistThe Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose.
The Old Norse Icelandic Legend Of Saints Mary Magdalen And Martha
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Author : Natalie M. Van Deusen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Old Norse Icelandic Legend Of Saints Mary Magdalen And Martha written by Natalie M. Van Deusen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Legends categories.
This dissertation presents a new edition of the Old Norse-Icelandic legend of Saints Mary Magdalen and Martha, extant in the late medieval Icelandic manuscripts NoRA 79 fragm. (ca. 1350), AM 233a fol. (ca. 1350-1375), AM 235 fol. (ca. 1400), Stock. Perg. 2 fol. (ca. 1425-1445), and AM 764 4to (ca. 1376-1386). The edition is preceded by an introduction comprising four chapters, which detail the origins and developments of the legends and cults of Mary Magdalen and Martha in the West, and in Scandinavia and Iceland in particular. The introductory chapters also provide codicological, paleographic, and orthographic descriptions of the manuscripts preserving the legend. They moreover present a discussion of noteworthy literary features and an examination of the legend's Latin sources, which range from the Vulgate to works of the Church Fathers to Vincent de Beauvais' encyclopedic work, Speculum historiale. An analysis of the Old Norse-Icelandic text as compared to the various Latin sources reveals that the five manuscripts of the legend of Mary Magdalen and Martha constitute an original compilation, preserved in NoRA 79 fragm., and three redactions derived at one or more removes from this exemplar. These comprise: (a) a redaction represented by AM 235 fol. and Stock. Perg. 2 fol.; (b) a redaction represented by AM 233a fol.; and (c) a redaction represented by AM 764 4to. The surviving text of the original compilation in NoRA 79 fragm. and the three redactions are edited separately following the introductory chapters.
Saints And Their Lives On The Periphery
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Author : Haki Antonsson
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2010
Saints And Their Lives On The Periphery written by Haki Antonsson and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Christian hagiography categories.
This volume examines the cult of the saints and their associated literature in two peripheral regions of Christendom which were converted to Christianity around the turn of the first millennium, namely, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The fifteen authors focus on how cultures of sanctity were transmitted across the two regions and on the role that neighbouring Christian countries like England, Germany, and Byzantium played in that process. The authors also ask to what extent the division between Latin Christianity and Eastern Orthodoxy affected the early development of the cult of saints on the two peripheries. The first part of the book offers for the first time a comprehensive overview of the veneration of local and universal saints in Scandinavia and northern Rus' from c.1000 to c.1200, with a particular emphasis on saints that were venerated in both regions. The second part presents examples of how some early hagiographic works produced on the northern and eastern peripheries borrowed, adapted and transformed--i.e. contextualized--literary traditions from the Latin West and Byzantium.
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.