The pre-Christian religions of the North : Research and reception / edited by Margaret Clunies Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clunies Ross, Margaret, editor.

Series:

Pre-Christian religions of the North

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Norse.

Religion--Historiography.

Religion.

Religion--History.

History.

Europe, Northern--Religion.

Europe, Northern.

Northern Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Research and reception

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]

Summary:

"This book reveals the various ways people have understood or reacted to Scandinavian paganism from the Middle Ages to today. Over more than a thousand years since pre-Christian religions were actively practised, European, and later contemporary, society has developed a fascination with the beliefs of northern Europe before the arrival of Christianity, which have been the subject of a huge range of popular and scholarly theories, interpretations, and uses. Indeed, the pre-Christian religions of the North have exerted a phenomenal influence on modern culture, appearing in everything from the names of days of the week to Hollywood blockbusters. Scholarly treatments have been hardly less varied. Theories, from the Middle Ages until today, have depicted these pre-Christian religious systems as dangerous illusions, the works of Satan, representatives of a lost proto-Indo-European religious culture, a form of "natural" religion, and even as a system non-indigenous in origin, derived from cultures outside Europe. The "Research and Reception" strand of the "Pre-Christian Religions of the North" project establishes a definitive survey of the current and historical uses and interpretations of pre-Christian mythology and religious culture, tracing the many ways in which people both within and outside Scandinavia have understood and been influenced by these religions, from the Christian Middle Ages to contemporary media of all kinds ... volume (I) traces the reception down to the early nineteenth century, while Volume II takes up the story from c.1830 down to the present day and the burgeoning of interest across a diversity of new as well as old media"--Publisher's statement.

Contents:

Volume 1. From the Middle Ages to c. 1830

volume 2. From c. 1830 to the present.

Volume 1. Pictured by the other : classical and early medieval perspectives on religions in the north / Henrik Janson

Anglo-Saxon responses to Scandinavian myth and religion / Philip A. Shaw

Finno-Ugric Neighbours / Thomas A. Dubois

Celtic-Scandinavian contacts / Bernhard Maier

The reception of early Nordic religions and myths in Old Rus' / Vladimir Ja. Petrukhin, Tatjana N. Jackson

The reception in early Arabic writings / Jan Restö

The learned prehistory and natural religions / Mats Malm

The Tower of Babel and the diffusion of world languages and religions / Annette Lassen

Demonism and the pre-Christian gods of Scandinavia / Margaret Clunies Ross

Remnants of indigenous beliefs in the other world in saga literature / Armann Jakobsson

The medieval reception of Eddic poetry with mythological subjects / Annette Lassen

The reception in Skaldic poetry and Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál / Margaret Clunies Ross

The reception in medieval historiography / Annette Lassen

The reception in saga literature / Margaret Clunies Ross

The humanist reception in Scandinavia / Mats Malm

Icelandic humanism / Annette Lassen

Myth and religion in the enlightenment and pre-romantic period / Margaret Clunies Ross

Pre-Christian religions of the North and the political idea of liberty / Julia Zernack

The new aesthetics and the concept of the sublime / Margaret Clunies Ross

Dalin, Ramsay and the enlightened reaction to Rudbeckianism / Lars Lönnroth

A key work for the reception history of Norse mythology and poetry : Paul Henri Mallet's History of the Danish Empire and its European impact / Julia Zernack

Images and imageries of Norse mythology in German sentimentalism and romanticism : from Herder to Heine / Sergej Liamin

Ewald's and Oehlenschläger's poetry inspired by old Norse myth / Lise Præstgaard Andersen

Swedish romanticism and Gothicism : aesthetic synergies / Mats Malm

The Norwegian reception during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Jan Ragnar Hagland

Old Norse myths and Icelandic romanticism / Sveinn Yngviegilsson

English romanticism and Norse mythology / Heather O'Donoghue

The 'Nordic renaissance' in Russia and Poland / Julia Zernack

The international reception of a seminal work : Baldrs draumar / Julia Zernack

Early representations of old Nordic religions in drama / Terry Gunnell

Painting and sculpture in Denmark / Bo Grandien

Painting and sculpture in Sweden / Bo Grandien

Painting and sculpture in Norway / Bo Grandien

Painting and sculpture in Germany, c. 1750 to the early twentieth century / Sarah Timme

The visual arts in Britain / Margaret Clunies Ross

Enabling philology : essential preconditions for a scholarly reception of the pre-Christian religions of the north / Margaret Clunies Ross

N. F. S. Grundtvig : The Æsir intoxication and Nordens Mytologi (1808) / Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen.

Volume 2. N.F.S. Grundtvig's use of Norse mythology (1815-72) and its aftermath / Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen

Germany 1650-1860 / Christina Lee

Finns, Sámi and Swedes / Thomas A. Dubois

The character of the new, comparative scholarship / Margaret Clunies Ross

The nineteenth-century emergence of Religionswissenschaft and its impact on the study of the pre-Christian religions of the North / Bernhard Maier

The heavenly mountains of Asia : old Norse religion and comparative religion / Annette Lassen

The comparative study of Celtic and Nordic religions / Bernhard Maier

Nordic, Germanic, German : Jacob Grimm and the German appropriation of old Norse religion and myth / Simon Halink

The rise of folklore studies / John Lindow

Richard Wagner, the Ring and its influence / Edward R. Haymes

Scandinavian myths in nineteenth-century opera and choral music / Barbara Eichner

The music of Jón Leifs / Florian Heesch

Theatre and performance (1830-2018) / Terry Gunnell, Sveinn Einarsson

Literary modernism and old Norse myth / Katja Schulz

Old Norse myth and Fìnnegans Wake / Christopher Black

Old Norse mythology in Anglophone fantasy and science fiction from 1940 / Randi Eldevik

Norse medievalism in children's literature in English / David Clark

Norse mythology in Nordic children's literature 1970-2012 / Anne-Kari Skardhamar

Nordic gods and popular culture / Jón Karl Helgason

Norse myths in the visual arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : a short catalogue raisonné / Sarah Timme

Old Norse mythology and heroic legend in politics, ideology and propaganda / Julia Zernack

Germanic Neopaganism / Stefanie von Schnurbein

On the concept of "Germanic" religion and myth / Julia Zernack

Philological studies of the pre-Christian religions of the north from Árni Magnússon to the present / Annette Lassen

The social turn : the pre-Christian religions of the north in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Margaret Clunies Ross

Pre-Christian religions of the north : the reception now / Margaret Clunies Ross.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9782503568799

2503568793

9782503568805

2503568807

OCLC:

1041768758

Publisher Number:

99980922295

99976542909