Urban Literacy In The Nordic Middle Ages

Author : Kasper H. Andersen,Jeppe Buchert Netterstrom,Lisbeth Imer,Bjorn Poulsen,Rikke Steenholt Olesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503596746

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Urban Literacy in the Nordic Middle Ages by Kasper H. Andersen,Jeppe Buchert Netterstrom,Lisbeth Imer,Bjorn Poulsen,Rikke Steenholt Olesen Pdf

This volume explores literacy in the medieval towns of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and aims to understand the extent to which these medieval urban centres constituted a driving force in the development of literacy in Nordic societies generally. As in other parts of Europe, two languages--Latin and the vernacular--were in use. However, the Nordic area is also characterised by its use of the runic alphabet, and thus two writing systems were also in use. Another characteristic of the North is its comparatively weak urbanization, especially in Finland, Sweden, and Norway. Literacy and the uses of writing in medieval towns of the North is approached from various angles of research, including history, archaeology, philology, and runology. The contributions cover topics related to urban literacy that include both case studies and general surveys of the dissemination of writing, all from a Northern perspective. The thematic chapters all present new sources and approaches that offer a new dimension both to the study of medieval urban literacy and also to Scandinavian studies.

Author : Arnved Nedkvitne
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000096412063

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The Social Consequences of Literacy in Medieval Scandinavia by Arnved Nedkvitne Pdf

Between 1000 and 1536 Scandinavia was transformed from a conglomerate of largely pre-state societies to societies characterized by state governments. Its most important single aspect was the increasing monopolization of 'legitimate' violence by the state. But Church and State also used literacy to strengthen social control, and they did so in central and important areas: jurisdiction, religious conformity and accounting. Thus, they hoped to control the areas they understood to be most important. Their intentions were largely fulfilled. The main driving force behind the transition to state societies was the monopolization of legitimate violence, but the use of literacy made a difference as well. By writing down oral 'laws', and by increasingly resorting to writing in traditionally oral judicial procedures, the state gradually gained control of institutionalized social practices with a minimum of 'legitimate violence'. Written laws made social norms more precise and easier to change, a necessity in an increasingly complex society. Writing also strengthened social cohesion by creating common religious rituals, procedures and narratives. Written accounts made taxation more stable and therefore seem more just and acceptable. The basic social transformations of the period cannot be attributed to increasing literacy alone. But the written word rendered the reorganization of society in Scandinavia more peaceful and gradual, strengthened social conformity and cohesion.

Author : Els Rose
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031485619

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City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500 by Els Rose Pdf

Author : Kirsi Salonen,Kurt Villads Jensen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000832334

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Scandinavia in the Middle Ages 900-1550 by Kirsi Salonen,Kurt Villads Jensen Pdf

Medieval Scandinavia went through momentous changes. Regional power centres merged and gave birth to the three strong kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. At the end of the Middle Ages, they together formed the enormous Kalmar Union comprising almost all lands around the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea. In the Middle Ages, Scandinavia became part of a common Europe, yet preserved its own distinct cultural markers. Scandinavia in the Middle Ages 900–1550 covers the entire Middle Ages into an engaging narrative. The book gives a chronological overview of political, ecclesiastical, cultural, and economic developments. It integrates to this narrative climatic changes, energy crises, devastating epidemies, family life and livelihood, arts, education, technology and literature, and much else. The book shows how different groups had an important role in shaping society: kings and peasants, pious priests, nuns and crusaders, merchants, and students, without forgetting minorities such as Sámi and Jews. The book is divided into three chronological parts 900–1200, 1200–1400, and 1400–1550, where analyses of general trends are illustrated by the acts of individual men and women. This book is essential reading for students of, as well as all those interested in, medieval Scandinavia and Europe more broadly.

Author : Agnieszka Bartoszewicz
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Cities and towns, Medieval
ISBN : 2503565115

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Urban Literacy in Late Medieval Poland by Agnieszka Bartoszewicz Pdf

From the end of the thirteenth century onwards, European towns exhibited a significant increase in the use of writing as a tool for administrative and economic purposes, as well as for social communication. The medieval towns of Poland are no exception to this pattern. This book surveys the development of the literacy of Polish burghers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, revealing socio-economic and cultural processes that changed the life of Polish urban society. Polish urban literacy is examined according to the reception of Western European urban culture more generally. Town networks in medieval Poland are explained, and the literacy skills of the producers and users of the written word are discussed. Literacy skills differed greatly from one social group to another, it is shown, due to the variety of town dwellers (clerics and lay people, professionals of the written word, occasional users of writing, and illiterates). Other issues that are discussed include the cooperation between agents of lay and church literacy, the relationship between literacy and orality, and the difference between developing literacies in Latin and in the vernacular languages.

Author : Pernille Hermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114768836

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Literacy in Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavian Culture by Pernille Hermann Pdf

Over recent decades the concept of literacy has been an important field of discussion in Medieval and Early Modern studies, and questions concerning the uses of literacy, the number of literates, differing writing systems, modes of communication and the interaction between orality and literacy have occupied researchers from various disciplines. The aim of this volume is to introduce Scandinavian literacy to the international field of research. On the one hand, to provide a basis that can contribute to a better general understanding of literacy. Because of the volume's interdisciplinary approach, a relatively wide range of material is invoked to illuminate the subject matter.

Author : Amy C. Mulligan,Else Mundal
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Icelandic literature
ISBN : 2503578101

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Moving Words in the Nordic Middle Ages by Amy C. Mulligan,Else Mundal Pdf

The culmination of over a decade's research on verbal culture in the pre- and post-Conversion medieval North at Bergen's Centre for Medieval Studies, this volume traces the movement of words and texts temporally, geographically, and intellectually across different media and genres. The contributions gathered here begin with a reassessment of how the unique verbal cultures of Scandinavia and Iceland can be understood in a broader European context, and then move on to explore foundational Nordic Latin histories and vernacular sagas. Key case studies are put forward to highlight the importance of institutional and individual writing communities, epistolary and list-making cultures, and the production of manuscripts as well as runic inscriptions. Finally, the oral-written continuum is examined, with a focus on important works such as Islendingabok and Landnamabok, Old-Norse Icelandic translated romances, and the development of prosimetra. Together, these essays form a state-of-the-art volume that offers new and vital insights into the role of literacy in the Norse-speaking world.

Author : Tim William Machan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107058590

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Imagining Medieval English by Tim William Machan Pdf

Imagining Medieval English is concerned with how we think about language, and simply through the process of thinking about it, give substance to an array of phenomena, including grammar, usage, variation, change, regional dialects, sociolects, registers, periodization, and even language itself. Leading scholars in the field explore conventional conceptualisations of medieval English, and consider possible alternatives and their implications for cultural as well as linguistic history. They explore not only the language's structural traits, but also the sociolinguistic and theoretical expectations that frame them and make them real. Spanning the period from 500 to 1500 and drawing on a wide range of examples, the chapters discuss topics such as medieval multilingualism, colloquial medieval English, standard and regional varieties, and the post-medieval reception of Old and Middle English. Together, they argue that what medieval English is, depends, in part, on who's looking at it, how, when and why.

Author : Oscar Bandle,Kurt Braunmüller,Ernst Hakon Jahr,Allan Karker,Hans-Peter Naumann,Ulf Telemann,Lennart Elmevik,Gun Widmark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197068

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The Nordic Languages. Volume 2 by Oscar Bandle,Kurt Braunmüller,Ernst Hakon Jahr,Allan Karker,Hans-Peter Naumann,Ulf Telemann,Lennart Elmevik,Gun Widmark Pdf

No detailed description available for "NORDIC LANGUAGES (BANDLE) 2. VOL HSK 22.2 E-BOOK".

Author : Krista Cowman,Nina Javette Koefoed,Åsa Karlsson Sjögren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135115203

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Gender in Urban Europe by Krista Cowman,Nina Javette Koefoed,Åsa Karlsson Sjögren Pdf

This volume offers an integrated set of local studies exploring the gendering of political activities across a variety of sites ranging from print culture, courts, government and philanthropic bodies and public spaces, outlining how a particular activity was constituted as political and exploring how this contributed to a gendered concept of citizenship. The comparative and transnational perspectives revealed through combining such work contributes to establishing new knowledge about the relationship between gender, citizenship and the development of the modern town in Northern Europe.

Author : Oskar Bandle,Lennart Elmevik,Gun Widmark
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 311017149X

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The Nordic Languages by Oskar Bandle,Lennart Elmevik,Gun Widmark Pdf

The handbook is not tied to a particular methodology but keeps in principle to a pronounced methodological pluralism, encompassing all aspects of actual methodology. Moreover it combines diachronic with synchronic-systematic aspects, longitudinal sections with cross-sections (periods such as Old Norse, transition from Old Norse to Early Modern Nordic, Early Modern Nordic 1550-1800 and so on). The description of Nordic language history is built upon a comprehensive collection of linguistic data; it consists of more than 200 articles written by a multitude of authors from Scandinavian and German and English speaking countries. The organization of the book combines a central part on the detailed chronological developments and some chapters of a more general character: chapters on theory and methodology in the beginning and on overlapping spatio-temporal topics in the end.

Author : Carsten Selch Jensen,Kurt Villads Jensen,Tuomas M S Lehtonen,Nils Holger Petersen,Tracey Sands
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580443241

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Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea by Carsten Selch Jensen,Kurt Villads Jensen,Tuomas M S Lehtonen,Nils Holger Petersen,Tracey Sands Pdf

This volume addresses the history of saints and sainthood in the Middle Ages in the Baltic Region, with a special focus on the cult of saints in Russia, Prussia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia (Livonia). Essays explore such topics as the introduction of foreign (and "old") saints into new regions, the creation of new local cults of saints in newly Christianized regions, the role of the cult of saints in the creation of political and lay identities, and the potential role of saints in times of war.

Author : Charlotte Appel,Morten Fink-Jensen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443827676

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Religious Reading in the Lutheran North by Charlotte Appel,Morten Fink-Jensen Pdf

Religious Reading in the Lutheran North opens up the doors to a part of early modern European history that has often been overlooked. In the Nordic countries, an abundance of religious literature in the vernacular was produced in the centuries following the Reformation, and reading was almost exclusively taught to children in a Lutheran Protestant setting. Literacy rates were high, and by the mid eighteenth century around ninety per cent of both men and women could read. The eight contributions to the present book investigate different aspects of religious reading in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Greenland, looking at the publication and dissemination strategies of authors and clergymen, as well as reading habits and interpretations among Scandinavian readers.

Author : Marco Mostert
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : 2503544770

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A Bibliography of Works on Medieval Communication by Marco Mostert Pdf

This bibliography of works on medieval communication offers a survey of work in a field of study which, from the 1960s onwards, has seen an ever-increasing number of monographs, collections of miscellanies and articles in learned journals being published every year. It provides a guide to this astonishing output by offering a list of more than 6.700 publications under sixteen headings. Because of the overlap of these headings, a comprehensive Index of subjects, place names and personal names is provided, which will allow the user to quickly find publications relevant to his research. A short Introduction precedes the bibliography. Progress in the field of study over the past two decades is outlined, with attention to those recent developments which have proved the most productive. At the same time, something is said about the growing insights which have led the bibliography's organisation to be changed substantially since its previous edition in 1999, which already numbered 1.580 items. Not only the more than fourfold increase in the number of items made a new edition necessary therefore, but also new ideas about the best ways of organising the knowledge that is to be gained from the contents of studies of medieval communication.

Author : Aleksis Kivi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:49015000499328

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Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi Pdf