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Author : Margaret Cormack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017112637
Author : Kirsten Wolf
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442646216
With The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose, Kirsten Wolf has undertaken a complete revision of the fifty-year-old handlistThe Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose.
Author : Kirsten Wolf,Natalie M. van Deusen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487511739
The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). While its predecessor dealt primarily with medieval prose texts about the saints, this volume not only focuses on medieval poems about saints but also on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period. The handlist organizes saints' names, manuscripts, and editions of individual poems with references to approximate dates of the manuscripts, as well as modern Icelandic editions and translations. Each entry concludes with secondary literature about the poem in question. These features combine to make The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry an invaluable resource for scholars and students in the field.
Author : Stephen Pelle,Gottskálk Jensson,Haki Antonsson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Iceland
ISBN : 9781843846116
An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.
Author : Alban Butler,Paul Burns
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814629032
"This is indeed true: if the saints and blesseds collected here share one overarching characteristic it is to have put their love of God to work for their fellow men and women as they saw fit - through austerity of life, contemplative prayer, or myriad embodiments of what we would now call social work. They are holy examples to us because they lived and died for others, for us."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Daniel C. Najork
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501514142
Maríu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen manuscripts. While the 1871 edition of the saga provides two versions based on multiple manuscripts and prints significant variants in the notes, it does not preserve the literary and social contexts of those manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Maríu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. This study restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the meaning of the text within its manuscript matrix, why it was copied in the specific manuscripts it was, and how it was read and used by the different communities that preserved the manuscripts.
Author : Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000830156
This book provides an overview of medieval monasticism in Iceland, from its dawn to its downfall during the Reformation. Blending the evidence from material remains and written documents, Monastic Iceland highlights the realities of everyday life in the male and female monasteries operated in Iceland. The book describes the incorporation of monasticism into the Icelandic society, the alleged land of the Vikings, and thus how the monasteries coexisted with the natural and social environments on the island while keeping their general aims and objectives. The book shows that large social systems, such as monasticism, can cross social and natural borders without necessitating fundamental changes apart from those triggered by the constant coexistence of nature and culture inside the environment they exist within. The evidence provided debunks the myth that Icelandic monasteries, male or female, were isolated, silent places or simple cells functioning principally as retirement homes for aristocrats. To be a member of an ecclesiastical institution did not mean a quiet, secluded life without any outside interaction, but rather active participation in the surrounding community. The book is for researchers in archaeology, osteology, and medieval history, in addition to all those interested in monasticism and the medieval history of northern Europe.
Author : Joanna Skórzewska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004194977
Based on a variety of extant written sources, this study offers a comprehensive reevaluation of Guðmundr Arason’s popularity in medieval Iceland. It presents a new perspective on the saintly fame and veneration of this controversial and interesting individual.
Author : Aimee O'Connell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Autistic people
ISBN : 0990723143
[Large print and fully illustrated] Iceland's history is told in the stories of its celebrated figures. From Viking explorers to Saga heroes, the voices that define Icelandic culture are well known. Yet one man in Iceland's past had difficulty finding the words to form his own voice and be known for who he really was: Thorlák Thórhallsson, declared by his people "The Patron Saint of Iceland" in 1198 and officially canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1984. Yet, despite these honors, few have ever heard Thorlák's complete and true story: A child prodigy treated as an adult by those around him, a sorrowful boy from a broken home, a scholar of the emerging theology of merciful love, an innovator in pastoral leadership, and a man who understood the fundamental need to love and be loved. Thorlák of Iceland is an opportunity at last to celebrate this quiet hero who embodies the spiritual heart of the Icelandic people, and to learn from his inspiring true story wisdom for our own age.
Author : Natalie M. Van Deusen
Publisher : Studies and Texts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0888442149
Text of Møortu saga ok Marâiu Magoalenu and its translation appear on facing pages.
Author : Gareth Lloyd Evans,Jessica Clare Hancock
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Margaret Clunies Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521631129
The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context.
Author : Siân E. Grønlie,Siân Elizabeth Duke
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Sagas
ISBN : 1843844818
A compelling argument that far from developing in a literary vacuum, saga literature interacts in lively, creative and critical ways with one of the central genres of the European middle ages.
Author : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : Studies and Texts
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015043261646
The legend of Saint Barbara is preserved in two 15th-century manuscripts which are presented here on facing pages followed by an English translation. In addition, Wolf presents the Latin source text Passio Sancte Barbare . The texts are preceded by a lengthy and heavily annotated discussion of the legend's manuscripts, sources and content which also places the legend within the literary and historical context of Scandinavia and Iceland.
Author : Kirsten Wolf,Natalie M. Van Deusen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487500740
The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period.
