Author: Ole WiddingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose
Author: Ole WiddingThe Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose
Author: Kirsten WolfPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442646217
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
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.
The Saints in Old Norse and early Modern Icelandic Poetry
Author: Kirsten WolfPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487500742
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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.
The Old Norse-Icelandic Legend of Saint Barbara
Author: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval StudiesPublisher: Studies and Texts
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
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.
Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland
Author: Stephen PellePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 184384611X
Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.
Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
Author: Hans Bekker-NielsenPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442633492
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
An annotated bibliography of Old Norse-Icelandic studies for the years 1981-83, offering a quick guide to recent work.
Old Icelandic Literature and Society
Author: Margaret Clunies RossPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521631122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context.
The Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours
Author: Andre MertensPublisher: Göttingen University Press
ISBN: 3863953134
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
St Martin of Tours is one of Christianity’s major saints and his significance reaches far beyond the powerful radiance of his iconic act of charity. While the saint and his cult have been researched comprehensively in Germany and France, his cult in the British Isles proves to be fairly unexplored. Andre Mertens closes this gap for Anglo-Saxon England by editing all the age’s surviving texts on the saint, including a commentary and translations. Moreover, Mertens looks beyond the horizon of the surviving body of literary relics and dedicates an introductory study to an analysis of the saint’s cult in Anglo-Saxon England and his significance for Anglo-Saxon culture.
Medieval Hagiography
Author: Thomas HeadPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317325141
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
This collection presents-through the medium of translated sources-a comprehensive guide to the development of hagiography and the cult of the saints in western Christendom during the middle ages. It provides an unparalleled resource for the study of the ideals of sanctity and the practice of religion in the medieval west. Intended for the classroom, for the medieval scholar who wishes to explore sources in unfamiliar languages, and for the general reader fascinated by the saints, this collection provides the reader a chance to explore in depth a full range of writings about the saints (the term hagiography is derived from Greek roots: hagios=holy and graphe=writing). The thirty-six chapters contain sources either in their entirety or in selections of substantial length. The great majority of the texts have never previously appeared in English translation. Those which have appeared in earlier translation, are here presented in versions based on significant new textual and historical scholarship which makes them significant improvements on the earlier versions. All the translations are accompanied by introductions, notes, and suggestions for further reading in order to help guide the reader. The first selections date to the fourth century, when the ideals of Christian sanctity were evolving to meet the demands of a world in which Christianity was an accepted religion and when the public veneration of relics was growing greatly in scope. The last selections date to the period immediately prior to the Reformation, a period in which the traditional concept of sanctity and acceptability of de cult of relics was being questioned. In addition to numerous works from the clerical languages of Latin and Greek, the selections include translations from Romance, Celtic, Germanic, and Slavic vernacular languages, s well as Hebrew texts concerning the martyrdom of Jews at the hands of Christians. Originating in lands from Iceland to Hungary and from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, they are taken from a full range of the many genres which constituted hagiography: lives of the saints, collections of miracle stories, accounts of the discovery or movement of relics, liturgical books, visions, canonization inquests, and even heresy trials.
Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993)
Author: Phillip PulsianoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351665014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 770
Book Description
First published in 1993, Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art. Written by a team of expert contributors, the encyclopedia offers those who lack command of the various Scandinavian languages a basic tool for the study of Medieval Scandinavia from roughly the Migration Period to the Reformation. With full-page maps, useful supplementary photos, cross-references and a comprehensive index, this work will be a valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas, the Viking age, and Old English history and literature, and for anyone interested in the cultural and historical heritage of Scandinavia.
