Sanctity in the North : Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia /
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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Latín Old Norse |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2008
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.