Denmark and Europe in the Middle Ages, c.1000-1525 : essays in honour of Professor Michael H. Gelting / edited by Kerstin Hundahl, Lars Kjær, Niels Lund.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hundahl, Kerstin, editor.

Kjaer, Lars, editor.

Lund, Niels, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Denmark--History--To 1241.

Denmark.

History.

Denmark--History--1241-1660.

Scandinavia--History--To 1397.

Scandinavia.

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Church history.

Church history--Middle Ages.

Law--Denmark--History.

Law.

Denmark--Civilization.

Civilization.

Genre:

History.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xiii, 292 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]

Contents:

Introduction / Kerstin Hundahl and Lars Kjær

Part One. Religious culture

The settlement of disputes by compromise according to some early Danish charters / Kim Esmark

Byzantinizing crucifixes in central medieval Denmark : how, when and why / Ebbe Nyborg

Motherhood as emotion and social practice : Mary and Anne as maternal models in medieval Iceland / Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir

The Black Friars and the Black Death : effects of the plague on friars preachers in fourteenth-century northern Europe / Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen

Part Two. Intellectual culture

Contacts between Denmark and Flanders in the eleventh and twelfth centuries : the tiniest of evidence / Steffen Harpsøe

Banking on, and with, the Victorines : the strange case of Archbishop Eskil's lost deposit / Mia Münster-Swendsen

The transformation of the Danish language in the central MIddles Ages : a case of Europeanization? / Niels Houlberg Hansen

Two journeys and one university : King Christian I and Queen Dorothea's journeys to Rome and the foundation of the University of Copenhagen / Carsten Jahnke

Part Three. Legal culture

The church law of Scania on the consecration of churches and the appointment of parish priests : international canon law and that of Scania / Bertil Nilsson

Dating the laws of medieval Denmark : studies of the manuscripts of the Danish church laws / Per Andersen

Regional or central? : legislation and law in thirteenth-century Denmark / Helle Vogt

Border warfare between king and pope in late medieval Denmark : a case study of royal politics towards ecclesiastical benefices and papal provisions c. 1350-1525 / Per Ingesman

Part Four. Aristocratic and court culture

Apocalypse then? : the First Crusade, traumas of war and Thomas de Marle / Thomas Kristian Heebøll-Holm

Runes, knives and Vikings : the Valdemarian kings and the Danish past in a comparative perspective / Lars Kjær

Placing blame and creating legitimacy : the implications of Rügish involvement in the struggle over the succession amidst the Danish church strife c.1258-1260 / Kerstin Hundahl.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472417503

147241750X

OCLC:

870211253