Sanctity in the North : saints, lives, and cults in Medieval Scandinavia /

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With original translations of primary texts and articles by leading researchers in the field, Sanctity in the North gives an introduction to the literary production associated with the cult of the saints in medieval Scandinavia.For more than five hundred years, Nordic clerics and laity venerated a h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: DuBois, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew), 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Latín
Old Norse
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2008
Colección:Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies.
Temas:
To 1500
Christian saints > Scandinavia.
Christian saints > Cult > Scandinavia.
Spirituality > Scandinavia > History > To 1500.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Scandinavia > Translations into English.
Scandinavian literature > Translations into English.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Scandinavia > History and criticism.
Scandinavian literature > History and criticism.
Christian hagiography.
Saints chrétiens > Scandinavie.
Saints chrétiens > Culte > Scandinavie.
Spiritualité > Scandinavie > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1500.
Littérature chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne > Scandinavie > Histoire et critique.
Littérature scandinave > Histoire et critique.
Hagiographie chrétienne.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Christian hagiography
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Christian saints
Christian saints > Cult
Scandinavian literature
Spirituality
Scandinavia
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Translations
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • St Ansgar : his Swedish mission and its larger context / Scott A. Mellor
  • Sts Sunniva and Henrik : Scandinavian martyr saints in their hagiographic and national contexts / Thomas A. Dubois
  • St Olaf and the skalds / John Lindow
  • Sacred non-violence, cowardice profaned : St Magnus of Orkney in Nordic hagiography and historiograaphy / Maria-Claudia Tomany
  • St Knud Lavard : a saint for Denmark / Thomas A. Dubois and Niels Ingwersen
  • The cult of St Eric, king and martyr, in medieval Sweden / Tracey R. Sands
  • Pride and politics in late-twelfth-century Iceland : the sanctity of Bishop Thorlakr Thórhallsson / Kirsten Wolf
  • St Katarina in her own light / Thomas A. Dubois
  • Hendreks saga og Kunegundis : marital consent in the legend of Henry and Cunegund / Marianne E. Kalinke
  • Better off dead : approaches to medieval miracles / Margaret Cormack.

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