Intellectual culture in medieval Scandinavia, c. 1100-1350 / edited by Stefka Georgieva Eriksen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eriksen, Stefka Georgieva, editor.

Series:

Disputatio ; 28.

Disputatio ; volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual life.

Scandinavia--Intellectual life--To 1500.

Scandinavia.

Physical Description:

ix, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]

Summary:

The book series Disputatio publishes interdisciplinary Scholarship on the intellectual culture and intellectual history of the European Middle Ages. The medieval focus is construed broadly to encompass a chronology ranging from the end of the classical Roman age to the rise of the modern world. Disputatio seeks to promote scholarly dialogue among the various disciplines that study medieval texts and ideas and their diffusion and reception. This book investigates the nature of intellectual activity in the Middle Ages from the perspective of medieval Scandinanvia by discussing how a multimodal and multilingual Scadinavian culture emerged through the dynamic interchange of foreign and local impulses in the minds of creative intellectuals. By deploying cognitive theory, this volume conceptualize intellectual cultures as the result of the individual's cognition, which incorporates physical perceptions of the world, memory and creation, rationality, emotionality and spiritual, and decision making. In doing so, it elucidates the diversity of social roles that could be assumed by people engaged in the activity of thinking. Attention is paid in particularly to the key intellectual activities of negotiating secular and religious authority and identity: to thinking and learning through verbal and visual means; and to ruminating on worldly existence and heavenly salvation. These processes are explored in a series of essays that focus on various visual and textual artefacts among them Church art and sculptures, manuscript fragments, and texts of both different language (Latin and Old Norse) and genres (sagas, poetry and grammatical treatises, laws, liturgical explanations and theological texts). The variety of intellectual and ideational processes connected to the textual and material cultural of medieval Scandinavia forms the focal point of this study. As a result, this book activity seeks to transcend the traditional cultural dichotomies of written versus oral material, Latin versus vernacular, lay versus secular, or European versus Nordic by foregrounding the cognitive and creative agency of intellectuals in medieval Scandinavia. Book jacket.

Contents:

Old Norse Intellectual Culture: Appropriation and Innovation / Gunnar Hardarson Hardarson, Gunnar 35

Negotiating Identity

Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris: Academic Discourse, Marriage, and Money / Ian P. Wei Wei, Ian P. 77

A Deliberate Style: The Patronage of Early Romanesque Architecture in Norway / Kjartan Hauglid Hauglid, Kjartan 103

Situated Knowledge: Shaping Intellectual Identities in Iceland, c. 1180-1220 / Bjørn Bandlien Bandlien, Bjørn 137

Canon Law and Politics in Grímr Hólmsteinssons Jóns saga baptista II / Kristoffer Vadum Vadum, Kristoffer 175

Thinking in Figures

Grammar, Rhetoric, and Figurative Language: Learned innovations and Vernacular Receptions / Rita Copeland Copeland, Rita 213

Traces of Latin Education in the Old Norse World / Åslaug Ommundsen Ommundsen, Åslaug 243

Applied Grammatica: Conjuring up the Native Poetae / Mikael Males Males, Mikael 263

Two Cultures of Visual(ized) Cognition / Mats Malm Malm, Mats 309

Worldly Existence and Heavenly Salvation

Messuskýringar: Old Norse Expositions of the Latin Mass and the Ritual Participation of the People / Sigurd Hareide Hareide, Sigurd 337

Cultivating Virtues on Scandinavian Soil: The Rise of a Christian Humanism and Ecclesiastical Art in Twelfth-Century Denmark / Kristin B. Aavitsland Aavitsland, Kristin B. 373

Body and Soul in Old Norse Culture / Steeka G. Eriksen Eriksen, Steeka G. 393.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9782503553078

2503553079

OCLC:

953712798

Publisher Number:

9782503553078