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Making the profane sacred in the Viking Age : essays in honour of Stefan Brink / edited by Irene Garcia Losquino, Olof Sundqvist, and Declan Taggart.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Medieval texts and cultures of Northern Europe (Imprime) ; Volume 32.
- Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe ; Volume 32
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mythology, Norse.
- Sacred space--Europe, Northern--History--To 1500.
- Sacred space.
- Europe, Northern--Religion.
- Europe, Northern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers, [2020]
- Summary:
- The term 'sacred' is often used in relation to the pre-Christian religions of Iron Age and medieval Scandinavia. But what did sacred really mean? What made something sacred for people? Why was one particular person, place, act, or text perceived to hold a sacral quality, while others remained profane? And what impact did such sacrality have on wider society, culture, politics, and economics, both for contemporaries and for future generations?This volume seeks to engage with such questions by drawing together essays from many of the pre-eminent scholars of Old Norse in order to reinterpret the concept of the sacred in the Viking Age North and to challenge pre-existing frameworks for understanding the sacred in this space and time. Including essays from Margaret Clunies Ross, Stephen Mitchell, John Lindow, and Judy Quinn, it is a treasury of commentary and information that ranges widely across theories and sources of evidence to present significant primary research and reconsiderations of existing scholarship. This edited collection is dedicated to Stefan Brink, an outstanding figure in the study of early Scandinavian language, society, and culture, and it takes as its inspiration the diversity, interdisciplinarity and vitality of his own research in order to make a major new contribution to the field of Old Norse studies.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 2-503-58605-8
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