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Saints and Their Lives on the Periphery

Author : Haki Antonsson,Ildar H. Garipzanov
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Christian hagiography
ISBN : IND:30000127752214

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Saints and Their Lives on the Periphery by Haki Antonsson,Ildar H. Garipzanov Pdf

This volume examines the cult of the saints and their associated literature in two peripheral regions of Christendom which were converted to Christianity around the turn of the first millennium, namely, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The fifteen authors focus on how cultures of sanctity were transmitted across the two regions and on the role that neighbouring Christian countries like England, Germany, and Byzantium played in that process. The authors also ask to what extent the division between Latin Christianity and Eastern Orthodoxy affected the early development of the cult of saints on the two peripheries. The first part of the book offers for the first time a comprehensive overview of the veneration of local and universal saints in Scandinavia and northern Rus' from c.1000 to c.1200, with a particular emphasis on saints that were venerated in both regions. The second part presents examples of how some early hagiographic works produced on the northern and eastern peripheries borrowed, adapted and transformed--i.e. contextualized--literary traditions from the Latin West and Byzantium.

Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland

Author : Stephen Pelle,Gottskálk Jensson,Haki Antonsson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Iceland
ISBN : 9781843846116

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Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland by Stephen Pelle,Gottskálk Jensson,Haki Antonsson Pdf

An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.

Great Events in Religion [3 volumes]

Author : Florin Curta,Andrew Holt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610695664

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Great Events in Religion [3 volumes] by Florin Curta,Andrew Holt Pdf

This three-volume set presents fundamental information about the most important events in world religious history as well as substantive discussions of their significance and impact. This work offers readers a broad and thorough look at the greatest events in world religious history, covering a wide range of religions, time periods, and areas around the globe. The entries present authoritative information and informed viewpoints written by expert contributors that enable readers to easily learn about the chief events in religious history, help them to better understand the course of world history, and promote a greater respect for culturally diverse religious traditions. The first of the three volumes covers religion from the preliterary world through around AD 600; the second, the post-classical era from 600 to 1450; and the third, the modern era from 1450 to the present. Each volume begins with a substantive introduction that discusses the history of world religions during the period covered by the volume. The chronologically ordered entries overview each event, place it in historical context, and identify the reasons for its enduring significance.

Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe (Tenth-Eleventh Century)

Author : G bor Klaniczay
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9786155225208

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Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe (Tenth-Eleventh Century) by G bor Klaniczay Pdf

This is the first of two volumes containing hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. The lives of the saints in this volume, from the tenth to eleventh centuries, written not much later, are telling witnesses for the process of Christianization of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Dalmatia. Most of them became patrons of their region and highly venerated throughout the Middle Ages. The volume presents the first English translation of a legend of each of these saints with the most recent critical edition of the Latin original and prefaces discussing the textual tradition. In an appendix the extensive hagiographical literature of the saints is being critically surveyed.

Before the Gregorian Reform

Author : John Howe
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501703706

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Before the Gregorian Reform by John Howe Pdf

Historians typically single out the hundred-year period from about 1050 to 1150 as the pivotal moment in the history of the Latin Church, for it was then that the Gregorian Reform movement established the ecclesiastical structure that would ensure Rome’s dominance throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. In Before the Gregorian Reform John Howe challenges this familiar narrative by examining earlier, "pre-Gregorian" reform efforts within the Church. He finds that they were more extensive and widespread than previously thought and that they actually established a foundation for the subsequent Gregorian Reform movement. The low point in the history of Christendom came in the late ninth and early tenth centuries—a period when much of Europe was overwhelmed by barbarian raids and widespread civil disorder, which left the Church in a state of disarray. As Howe shows, however, the destruction gave rise to creativity. Aristocrats and churchmen rebuilt churches and constructed new ones, competing against each other so that church building, like castle building, acquired its own momentum. Patrons strove to improve ecclesiastical furnishings, liturgy, and spirituality. Schools were constructed to staff the new churches. Moreover, Howe shows that these reform efforts paralleled broader economic, social, and cultural trends in Western Europe including the revival of long-distance trade, the rise of technology, and the emergence of feudal lordship. The result was that by the mid-eleventh century a wealthy, unified, better-organized, better-educated, more spiritually sensitive Latin Church was assuming a leading place in the broader Christian world. Before the Gregorian Reform challenges us to rethink the history of the Church and its place in the broader narrative of European history. Compellingly written and generously illustrated, it is a book for all medievalists as well as general readers interested in the Middle Ages and Church history.

Place and Space in the Medieval World

Author : Meg Boulton,Jane Hawkes,Heidi Stoner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315413631

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Place and Space in the Medieval World by Meg Boulton,Jane Hawkes,Heidi Stoner Pdf

This book addresses the critical terminologies of place and space (and their role within medieval studies) in a considered and critical manner, presenting a scholarly introduction written by the editors alongside thematic case studies that address a wide range of visual and textual material. The chapters consider the extant visual and textual sources from the medieval period alongside contemporary scholarly discussions to examine place and space in their wider critical context, and are written by specialists in a range of disciplines including art history, archaeology, history, and literature.

Livonia, Rus’ and the Baltic Crusades in the Thirteenth Century

Author : Anti Selart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004284753

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Livonia, Rus’ and the Baltic Crusades in the Thirteenth Century by Anti Selart Pdf

This monograph by Anti Selart is a comprehensive study of the relations between the northern crusaders and Rus' in the 13th century. The monograph contests the existence of the constitutive religious conflict and extensive aggressive strategies in the region.

Secular canons in Medieval Europe

Author : Sigrun Høgetveit Berg,Arnold Otto
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111027210

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Secular canons in Medieval Europe by Sigrun Høgetveit Berg,Arnold Otto Pdf

While both regular canons and monasticism with its development into different orders have reached a roughly even level of coverage in research, the history of secular canons is a field which has hitherto been far less in focus of historian scholarship. This might be due to the fact that they did not form orders or congregations offering a systematic approach to their institutions. Hence the pieces of research carried out so far mostly deal with a single cathedral or collegiate chapter and do not expand on the phenomenon in general. Likewise, the present publication may not give a comprehensive survey but yet takes a comparative approach by regarding the establishment of secular canons in a European longitudinal section from the Polar Circle to Southern Italy. In this course, both cathedral and collegiate chapters in Scandinavian, German, Polish and Italian territories and the respective career paths canons took into them will be considered. In this course, the essays take only some brief recourses to the early middle ages, when canons maintained a cloistered vita communis, but rather turn their view to those centuries in the high and later middle ages up to reformation times, when the chapters reached their full implementation. The essays collected in this volume base on a session series held at the International Medieval Congress 2018 in Leeds. The contributors are renowned historians in this field: Antonio Antonetti (Caserta), Anna Minara Ciardi (Stockholm), Emanuele Curzel (Trento), Sigrun Høgetveit Berg (Tromsø), Jochen Johrendt (Wuppertal), Anna Kowalska-Pietrzak (Łódź), Arnold Otto (Nürnberg), Kirsi Salonen (Turku), Jörg Wunschhofer (Beckum).

The Making of Christian Myths in the Periphery of Latin Christendom (c. 1000-1300)

Author : Lars Boje Mortensen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 8763504073

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The Making of Christian Myths in the Periphery of Latin Christendom (c. 1000-1300) by Lars Boje Mortensen Pdf

Mythology is usually reserved for non-Christian religions. However, the adoption of Christianity in Northern and East-Central Europe between c. 1000 and 1300 can be adequately described as a myth-making process: local saints were added to the Christian pantheon in all regions entering Latin Europe. The present collection explores the links between local sanctity and the making of national myths in medieval historical writing. By bringing together specialists in history and literature of the European periphery in question, the case is made that the writing of history and saints lives from this pioneering period should been analysed together as mainly successful attempts at creating cultural foundation myths.

Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Author : Jenni Kuuliala,Jussi Rantala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429647703

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Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Jenni Kuuliala,Jussi Rantala Pdf

Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human societies, having various cultural, social and religious aims and purposes. Travels shaped religions and societies and were a way for people to understand themselves, this world and the transcendent. This book analyses travelling in its social context in ancient and medieval societies. Why did people travel, how did they travel and what kind of communal networks and negotiations were inherent in their travels? Travel was not only the privilege of the wealthy or the male, but people from all social groups, genders and physical abilities travelled. Their reasons to travel varied from profane to sacred, but often these two were intermingled in the reasons for travelling. The chapters cover a long chronology from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages, offering the reader insights into the developments and continuities of travel and pilgrimage as a phenomenon of vital importance.

Introduction to Nordic Cultures

Author : Annika Lindskog,Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787353992

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Introduction to Nordic Cultures by Annika Lindskog,Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Pdf

Introduction to Nordic Cultures is an innovative, interdisciplinary introduction to Nordic history, cultures and societies from medieval times to today. The textbook spans the whole Nordic region, covering historical periods from the Viking Age to modern society, and engages with a range of subjects: from runic inscriptions on iron rings and stone monuments, via eighteenth-century scientists, Ibsen’s dramas and turn-of-the-century travel, to twentieth-century health films and the welfare state, nature ideology, Greenlandic literature, Nordic Noir, migration, ‘new’ Scandinavians, and stereotypes of the Nordic. The chapters provide fundamental knowledge and insights into the history and structures of Nordic societies, while constructing critical analyses around specific case studies that help build an informed picture of how societies grow and of the interplay between history, politics, culture, geography and people. Introduction to Nordic Cultures is a tool for understanding issues related to the Nordic region as a whole, offering the reader engaging and stimulating ways of discovering a variety of cultural expressions, historical developments and local preoccupations. The textbook is a valuable resource for undergraduate students of Scandinavian and Nordic studies, as well as students of European history, culture, literature and linguistics.

Anglo-Danish Empire

Author : Richard North,Erin Goeres,Alison Finlay
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501513374

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Anglo-Danish Empire by Richard North,Erin Goeres,Alison Finlay Pdf

Anglo-Danish Empire is an interdisciplinary handbook for the Danish conquest of England in 1016 and the subsequent reign of King Cnut the Great. Bringing together scholars from the fields of history, literature, archaeology, and manuscript studies, the volume offers comprehensive analysis of England’s shift from Anglo-Saxon to Danish rule. It follows the history of this complicated transition, from the closing years of the reign of King Æthelred II and the Anglo-Danish wars, to Cnut’s accession to the throne of England and his consolidation of power at home and abroad. Ruling from 1016 to 1035, Cnut drew England into a Scandinavian empire that stretched from Ireland to the Baltic. His reign rewrote the place of Denmark and England within Europe, altering the political and cultural landscapes of both countries for decades to come.

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500

Author : Wim Blockmans,Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000871951

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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 by Wim Blockmans,Peter Hoppenbrouwers Pdf

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a global context, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the Crusades, the effects of plague and the intellectual and cultural dynamism of the Middle Ages. The book explores the driving forces behind the formation of medieval society and the directions in which it developed and changed. In doing this, the authors cover a wide geographic expanse, including Western interactions with the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic World, North Africa and Asia. This fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect moves toward teaching the Middle Ages in a global context and contains a wealth of new features and topics that help to bring this fascinating era to life, including: West Europe’s catching up through intensive exchange with the Mediterranean Islamic world growth of autonomous cities and civic liberties emergence of an empirical and rational worldview climate change and intercontinental pandemics European exchange with Africa and Asia chapter introductions to support students’ understanding of the topics a fully updated glossary to give modern students the confidence and language to discuss medieval history Clear and stimulating, the fourth edition of Introduction to Medieval Europe is the ideal companion to studying the entirety of medieval history at undergraduate level.

Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004328471

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Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

In Identity Formation and Diversity in the Early Medieval Baltic and Beyond, the Viking World in the East is made more heterogeneous. Baltic Finnic groups, Balts and Sami are integrated into the history dominated by Scandinavians and Slavs. Interaction in the region between Eastern Middle Sweden, Finland, Estonia and North Western Russia is set against varied cultural expressions of identities. Ten scholars approach the topic from different angles, with case studies on the roots of diversity, burials with horses, Staraya Ladoga as a nodal point of long-distance routes, Rus’ warrior identities, early Eastern Christianity, interaction between the Baltic Finns and the Svear, the first phases of ar-Rus dominion, the distribution of Carolingian swords, and Dirhams in the Baltic region. Contributors are Johan Callmer, Ingrid Gustin, Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson, Valter Lang, John Howard Lind, Marika Mägi, Mats Roslund, Søren Sindbaek, Anne Stalsberg, and Tuukka Talvio.

Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

Author : Sari Nauman,Wojtek Jezierski,Christina Reimann,Leif Runefelt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030985271

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Baltic Hospitality from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century by Sari Nauman,Wojtek Jezierski,Christina Reimann,Leif Runefelt Pdf

Reflecting debate around hospitality and the Baltic Sea region, this open access book taps into wider discussions about reception, securitization and xenophobic attitudes towards migrants and strangers. Focusing on coastal and urban areas, the collection presents an overview of the responses of host communities to guests and strangers in the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, from the early eleventh century to the twentieth. The chapters investigate why and how diverse categories of strangers including migrants, war refugees, prisoners of war, merchants, missionaries and vagrants, were portrayed as threats to local populations or as objects of their charity, shedding light on the current predicament facing many European countries. Emphasizing the Baltic Sea region as a uniquely multi-layered space of intercultural encounter and conflict, this book demonstrates the significance of Northeastern Europe to migration history.