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Author : Erik Wahlgren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : America
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037900524
Author : Valerie Hansen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501194115
The World in the Year 1000 -- Go West, Young Viking -- The Pan-American Highways of 1000 -- European Slaves -- The World's Richest Man -- Central Asia Splits in Two -- Surprising Journeys -- The Most Globalized Place on Earth.
Author : Sarah M. Anderson,Karen Swenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134821389
Cold Counsel is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the disciplines of history, sociology, feminism, ethnography and psychoanalysis in order to raise fresh questions about such new subjects as gender, class, sexuality, family structure and ideology in medieval Iceland.
Author : Geraldine Barnes
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0859916081
Viking America examined through the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the twentieth century. The accounts in the Vinland sagas of the great voyages to the northeast coast of America in the early years of the eleventh century have often been obscured by detailed argument over the physical identity of the West Atlantic landwhich its Scandinavian discoverers named Vinland. Geraldine Barnes leaves archaeological evidence aside and returns to the Old Norse narratives, Groenlendinga saga (Saga of Greenlanders) and Eiriks saga rauda(Saga of Eric the Red), in her study of the writing and rewriting of the Vinland story from the middle ages to the late twentieth century. She sets the sagas in the context of Iceland's transition from paganism to Christianity; later chapters explore the Vinland story in relation to issues of regional pride and national myths of foundation in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America, to the ethos of popular imperialism during the same periodin English literature, and, in the late twentieth century, to postcolonial concerns. GERALDINE BARNES is associate professor of English, University of Sydney.
Author : Ülo Valk,Daniel Sävborg
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789522229946
This book addresses the narrative construction of places, the relationship between tradition communities and their environments, the supernatural dimensions of cultural landscapes and wilderness as they are manifested in European folklore and in early literary sources, such as the Old Norse sagas. The first section “Explorations in Place-Lore” discusses cursed and sacred places, churches, graveyards, haunted houses, cemeteries, grave mounds, hill forts, and other tradition dominants in the micro-geography of the Nordic and Baltic countries, both retrospectively and from synchronous perspectives. The supernaturalisation of places appears as a socially embedded set of practices that involves storytelling and ritual behaviour. Articles show, how places accumulate meanings as they are layered by stories and how this shared knowledge about environments can actualise in personal experiences. Articles in the second section “Regional Variation, Environment and Spatial Dimensions” address ecotypes, milieu-morphological adaptation in Nordic and Baltic-Finnic folklores, and the active role of tradition bearers in shaping beliefs about nature as well as attitudes towards the environment. The meaning of places and spatial distance as the marker of otherness and sacrality in Old Norse sagas is also discussed here. The third section of the book “Traditions and Histories Reconsidered” addresses major developments within the European social histories and mentalities. It scrutinizes the history of folkloristics, its geopolitical dimensions and its connection with nation building, as well as looking at constructions of the concepts Baltic, Nordic and Celtic. It also sheds light on the social base of folklore and examines vernacular views toward legendry and the supernatural.
Author : Larissa Tracy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843931
A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.
Author : John Block Friedman,Kristen Mossler Figg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1592 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351661317
First published in 2000, Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia covers the people, places, technologies, and intellectual concepts that contributed to trade, travel and exploration during the Middle Ages, from the years C.E. 525 to 1492. This comprehensive reference work contains entries on a large number of subjects, including familiar topics such as the voyages of Columbus and Marco Polo, and also information that is more difficult to find, for example, the traditions of travel among Muslim women and the influence of Viking travel on navigation and geographical knowledge. Bringing together more than 175 scholars from a variety of disciplines, it minimizes Eurocentric bias and offers extensive coverage of such topics as travel within Inner Asia, Mongol society, and the spread of Buddhism. Including an extensive map program and more than 125 illustrations, as well as bibliographies, a comprehensive index and "see also" references, Medieval Trade, Travel, and Exploration is a valuable reference guide for undergraduate and graduate students, scholars and also the general reader.
Author : Gareth Lloyd Evans,Jessica Clare Hancock
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843845621
Compared to other areas of medieval literature, the question of masculinity in Old Norse-Icelandic literature has been understudied. This is a neglect which this volume aims to rectify. The essays collected here introduce and analyse a spectrum of masculinities, from the sagas of Icelanders, contemporary sagas, kings' sagas, legendary sagas, chivalric sagas, bishops' sagas, and eddic and skaldic verse, producing a broad and multifaceted understanding of what it means to be masculine in Old Norse-Icelandic texts. A critical introduction places the essays in their scholarly context, providing the reader with a concise orientation in gender studies and the study of masculinities in Old Norse-Icelandic literature. This book's investigation of how masculinities are constructed and challenged within a unique literature is all the more vital in the current climate, in which Old Norse sources are weaponised to support far-right agendas and racist ideologies are intertwined with images of vikings as hypermasculine. This volume counters these troubling narratives of masculinity through explorations of Old Norse literature that demonstrate how masculinity is formed, how it is linked to violence and vulnerability, how it governs men's relationships, and how toxic models of masculinity may be challenged.
Author : Ronald J. Mason
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817315337
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Author : Helen Delpar
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015005683589
Alphabetically arranged articles contain biographical information about explorers. Includes articles about geographical knowledge and concepts of ancient and medieval worlds with emphasis on the 15th century to present.
Author : Gustaf E. Karsten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : English philology
ISBN : UVA:X006135517
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Middle Ages
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017424412
Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015015055984
The three-volume American Series of Great Events from History begins with the arrival of the Indians, the first Americans, from Asia and ends with the first manned lunar landing in 1969. Between these two noteworthy happenings, 336 additional events are studied in depth through the scholarly literature they have inspired. - Preface.
Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : United States
ISBN : PSU:000017745109
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Scandinavian languages
ISBN : UCAL:B3492495
Includes Proceedings of the Society.