[PDF] Faith And Knowledge In Late Medieval And Early Modern Scandinavia eBook

Author : Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110639475

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With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Volume 3 analyses the impact of Jerusalem on Scandinavian Christianity from the middle of the 18. century in a broad context. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536) Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750) Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)

Author : Kristin B. Aavitsland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110636271

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With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code to Christian cultures in Scandinavia. The first volume is dealing with the different notions of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536) Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750) Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)

Author : Daniel C. Najork
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,53 MB
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1501514148

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Maríu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen manuscripts. While the 1871 edition of the saga provides two versions based on multiple manuscripts and prints significant variants in the notes, it does not preserve the literary and social contexts of those manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Maríu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. This study restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the meaning of the text within its manuscript matrix, why it was copied in the specific manuscripts it was, and how it was read and used by the different communities that preserved the manuscripts.

Author : Jürg Glauser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1479 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110431483

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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.

Author : Lukas Grzybowski
Publisher : ARC Humanities Press
Page : pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
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ISBN : 9781641892308

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This book reevaluates our conception of the Christianization of Scandinavia in the Early Middle Ages in the context of Adam of Bremen's history.

Author : Thomas Andrew DuBois
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 080209130X

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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 complement the translations and reflect the contributors' own disciplinary groundings in folklore, philology, medieval, and religious studies.

Author : Stephen Pelle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 23,92 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Iceland
ISBN : 184384611X

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An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.

Author : Margaret Clunies Ross
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Europe, Northern
ISBN : 9782503568805

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Over the millennia since pre-Christian religions were actively practised, European - and later contemporary - society has developed a fascination with the beliefs of northern Europe before the arrival of Christianity, which have been the subject of a huge range of popular and scholarly theories, interpretations, and uses. Indeed, the pre-Christian religions of the North have exerted a phenomenal influence on modern culture, appearing in everything from the names of days of the week to Hollywood blockbusters. Scholarly treatments have been hardly less varied. Theories - from the Middles Ages until today - have depicted these pre-Christian religious systems as dangerous illusions, the works of Satan, representatives of a lost proto-Indo-European religious culture, a form of 'natural' religion, and even as a system non-indigenous in origin, derived from cultures outside Europe. The Research and Reception strand of the Pre-Christian Religions of the North project establishes a definitive survey of the current and historical uses and interpretations of pre-Christian mythology and religious material, tracing the many ways in which people both within and outside Scandinavia have understood and been influenced by these religions, from the Christian Middle Ages to contemporary media of all kinds. The previous volume (I) traced the reception down to the early nineteenth century, while the present volume (II) takes up the story from c. 1830 down to the present day and the burgeoning of interest across a diversity of new as well as old media.

Author : Jonas Wellendorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 43,10 MB
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108677533

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The coming of Christianity to Northern Europe resulted in profound cultural changes. In the course of a few generations, new answers were given to fundamental existential questions and older notions were invalidated. Jonas Wellendorf's study, the first monograph in English on this subject, explores the medieval Scandinavian reception and re-interpretation of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. This original work draws on a range of primary sources ranging from Prose Edda and Saxo Grammaticus' History of the Danes to less well known literary works including the Saga of Barlaam and the Hauksbók manuscript (c.1300). By providing an in-depth analysis of often overlooked mythological materials, along with translations of all textual passages, Wellendorf delivers an accessible work that sheds new light on the ways in which the old gods were integrated into the Christian worldview of medieval Scandinavia.