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The revelations of St Birgitta : a study and edition of the Birgittine-Norwegian texts, Swedish National Archives, E 8902 / Jonathan Adams.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Adams, Jonathan, author.
Contributor:
Sweden. Riksarkivet.
Series:
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; Volume 194.
Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions. Texts & sources ; Volume 7.
Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 1573-4188 ; Volume 194
Texts & Sources ; Volume 7
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Private revelations.
Visions.
Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, approximately 1303-1373.
Bridget.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (641 p.)
Place of Publication:
Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
In The Revelations of St Birgitta: A Study and Edition of the Birgittine-Norwegian Texts, Swedish National Archives, E 8902 , Jonathan Adams offers a detailed analysis of the manuscript and its contents as well as a new edition of this puzzling text. The Birgittine-Norwegian texts are very distinctive from the main Birgittine vernacular corpus of literature and have taxed scholars for decades as to why and for whom they were written. The linguistic study of the manuscript is combined with contextual and historical information in order to reinforce the arguments made and offer explanations within a cultural context. This provides a welcome new dimension to earlier research that has otherwise been pursued to a large degree within a single academic discipline.
Contents:
Front Matter
St Birgitta and Her Revelations
Textual History of the Vernacular Scandinavian Manuscripts
Birgitta and Norway
Summary of Previous Research into the Manuscript
Manuscript Description
Lexicon: Idiosyncracies, Foreign Influence, and Dialectal Forms
Language Mixture in Medieval Scandinavian Manuscripts
Analysis of Language Mixture in E 8902
Conclusion
Text and Commentary
Commentary, References, and Indexes
Bibliography
Index.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 10, 2015).
ISBN:
90-04-30466-5
Publisher Number:
10.1163/9789004304666 DOI

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