Approaches to the Medieval Self : Representations and Conceptualizations of the Self in the Textual and Material Culture of Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500 /

The main aim of this book is to discuss various modes of studying and defining the medieval self, based on a wide span of sources from medieval Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500, such as archeological evidence, architecture and art, documents, literature, and runic inscriptions. The book engages with...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bandlien, Bjørn (Editor ), Eriksen, Stefka G. (Editor ), Langsholt Holmqvist, Karen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]
Temas:
To 1500
Self > Scandinavia > History > To 1500.
Medieval Scandinavia.
interdisciplinarity.
the self.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Scandinavian.
Self
Scandinavia
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Approaches to the Self
  • From Modernity Back to Viking and Medieval Scandinavia
  • The Networked Historical Self, Traveling Version
  • Cognitive Approaches to Old Norse Literature
  • The Precarious Self
  • Multiple Spaces, Multiple Selves? The Case of King Sverrir of Norway
  • The Medieval Subject and the Saga Hero
  • The Selfish Skald: The Problematic Case of the Self of the Poet of Sonatorrek
  • Medieval Page-turners: Interpreting Revenge in Njáls saga in Reykjabók (AM 468 4to) and Möðruvallabók (AM 132 fol.)
  • The Self in Legal Procedure: Oath-Taking as Individualism in Norwegian Medieval Law
  • The Agency of Children in Nordic Medieval Hagiography
  • Food, Everyday Practice, and the Self in Medieval Oslo: A Study of Identities Based on Dietary Reconstructions from Human Remains
  • Identifying "Occasions" of the Self in Viking-Age Scandinavia: Textile Production as Gendered Performance in Its Social and Spatial Settings
  • Self-expression through Eponymous Tenement Plots in Medieval Oslo
  • Searching for the Self in Danish Twelfth-Century Churches: A Praxeological Experiment
  • The Creation of Selves as a Social Practice and Cognitive Process: A Study of the Construction of Selves in Medieval Graffiti
  • The Self in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, and Beyond: Between the Material, the Social, and the Cognitive
  • Index

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