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The making of Christian myths in the periphery of Latin christendom (c. 1000-1300) / edited by Lars Boje Mortensen.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious thought--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Religious thought.
- Religious thought--Middle Ages.
- Christian hagiography.
- History.
- Mythology, European.
- Historiography.
- Local history.
- Europe--Church history--600-1500.
- Europe.
- Church history.
- Europe--History, Local--To 1500.
- Europe--Historiography--To 1500.
- Mythology, European--History--To 1500.
- Christian hagiography--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Physical Description:
- 348 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Constructing the past: religious dimensions and historical consciousness in Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum / Hans-Werner Goetz
- Pilgrims, missionaries and martyrs: the holy in Bede, Orkneyinga saga, and Knýtlinga saga / Carl Phelpstead
- The function of the saints in early Bohemian historical writing / Marie Bláhová
- The beginnings of local hagiography in Iceland: the lives of Bishops Þorlákr and Jón / Ásdis Egilsdóttir
- The friend of the meek: the late medieval miracles of a twelfth-century Icelandic saint / Ármann Jakobsson
- God and the saints in medieval Polish historiography / Norbert Kersken
- In the presence of the dead: Saint Canute the Duke in Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum / Karsten Friis
- Royal saints in Hungarian chronicles, legends and liturgy / Lázló Veszprémy
- Sanctified beginnings and mythopoietic moments: the first wave of writing on the past in Norway, Denmark, and Hungary, c. 1000-1230 / Lars Boje Mortensen
- Divine elections for nations: a difficult rhetoric for medieval scholars? / Mary Garrison
- Constructing religious pasts: summary reflections / Håkan Rydving
- Reflections on historiography and the holy: center and periphery / Patrick Geary.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 8763504073
- OCLC:
- 70574091
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