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Social Norms in Medieval Scandinavia /
In the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia, social values such as reputation, honour, and friendship, were integral to the development of rituals, customs, religion, literature, and language. Everyday norms are mainly conveyed orally or ritually, and rarely in a written or material shape. Despite th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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| Colección: | Beyond medieval Europe.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / Jakub Morawiec, Aleksandra Jochymek, Grzegorz Bartusik
- Introduction. The goar and "cultural politics" of the years ca. 1000-1150 / Jón Viar Sigursson
- part I. Pre-Christian ritual practice and literary discourse. The use of silver by the Norsemen of Truso and Wolin : the logic of the market or social prestige? / Dariusz Adamczyk
- Silk, settlements, and society in Íslendingasögur / Anita Sauckel
- Being Óinn Bursson : the creation of social and moral obligation in Viking Age warrior-bands through the ritualized, oral performance of poetry--the case of Grímnismál / Simon Nygaard
- Elements of satire and social commentary in heathen praise poems and commemorative odes / David Ashurst
- Friendship and man's reputation : a case of Odds Þáttr Ófeigssonar / Marta Rey-Radlińska
- part II. Reception and cultural transfer. Cultural transfer of cognitive structures of fortune in the Latin and Old Icelandic literatures and languages : the case of the metaphor fortune is a wheel / Grzegorz Bartusik
- Dating, authorship, and generational memory in Ljósvetninga saga : a late response to Bari Gumundsson / Yoav Tirosh
- Quid sigurthus cum christo? An examination of Sigurd's Christian potential in medieval Scandinavia / Łukasz Neubauer
- Jómsborg and the German reception of Jómsvíkinga saga : introducing masterhood as a social norm / Michael Irlenbusch-Reynard
- part III. Outsiders and transgressors. The unfamiliar other : distortions of social cognition through disguise in two Íslendingasögur / Alexander J. Wilson
- A deviant word hoard : a preliminary study of non-normative terms in early medieval Scandinavia / Keith Ruiter
- Enchanting the land : monstrous magic, social concerns, and the natural world in the Íslendingasögur / Rebecca Merkelbach
- Social margins in Karlamagnús saga : the rejection of poverty / Aleksandra Jochymek
- Þótti mǫnnum ... hann myndi vera engi jafnaarmar : the narrator, the trouble-maker, and public opinion / Joanne Shortt Butler
- Discipline or punish? Travels and outlawry as social structures in medieval Iceland / Marion Poilvez.