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Sanctity in the North : saints, lives, and cults in Medieval Scandinavia / edited by Thomas A. DuBois.
LIBRA PT7257 .S25 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Old Norse
- Subjects (All):
- Christian saints--Scandinavia.
- Christian saints.
- Christian saints--Cult--Scandinavia.
- Spirituality--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
- Spirituality.
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Scandinavia--Translations into English.
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Scandinavian literature--Translations into English.
- Scandinavian literature.
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Scandinavia--History and criticism.
- Scandinavian literature--History and criticism.
- Christian hagiography.
- History.
- Christian saints--Cult.
- Scandinavia.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 399 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2008]
- Language Note:
- Includes some text translated from Latin and Nordic languages.
- Contents:
- Part I Missionary Saints
- St Ansgar: His Swedish Mission and Its Larger Context / Scott A. Mellor 31
- Sts Sunniva and Henrik: Scandinavian Martyr Saints in Their Hagiographic and National Contexts / Thomas A. Dubois 65
- Part II Royal Saints
- St Olaf and the Skalds / John Lindow 103
- Sacred Non-Violence, Cowardice Profaned: St Magnus of Orkney in Nordic Hagiography and Historiography / Maria-Claudia Tomany 128
- St Knud Lavard: A Saint for Denmark / Thomas A. Dubois, Niels Ingwersen 154
- The Cult of St Eric, King and Martyr, in Medieval Sweden / Tracey R. Sands 203
- Part III Holy Bishops and Nuns
- Pride and Politics in Late-Twelfth-Century Iceland: The Sanctity of Bishop Porlakr Porhallsson / Kirsten Wolf 241
- St Katarina in Her Own Light / Thomas A. Dubois 271
- Part IV Saints' Lives in Lived Context
- Hendreks saga og Kunegundis: Marital Consent in the Legend of Henry and Cunegund / Marianne E. Kalinke 307
- Better Off Dead: Approaches to Medieval Miracles / Margaret Cormack 334.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-373) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802091307
- 080209130X
- 9780802094100
- 0802094104
- OCLC:
- 85832772
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