Nidrstigningar Saga : Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse "Descent into Hell" / Dario Bullitta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bullitta, Dario, author.

Series:

Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies.

Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gospel of Nicodemus (Icelandic version)--Criticism, Textual.

Gospel of Nicodemus (Icelandic version).

Sagas--Criticism, Textual.

Sagas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"Dario Bullitta has embarked on a highly fascinating voyage that traces the routes of transmission of the Latin text to Iceland and continental Scandinavia. He argues that the saga is derived from a less popular twelfth-century French redaction of the Evangelium Nicodemi, and that it bears the exegetical and scriptural influences of twelfth-century Parisian scholars active at Saint Victor, Peter Comestor and Peter Lombard in particular. By placing Nirstigningar saga within the greater theological and homiletical context of early thirteenth-century Iceland, Bullitta successfully adds to our knowledge of the early reception of Latin biblical and apocryphal literature in medieval Iceland and provides a new critical edition and translation of the vernacular text."-- Provided by publisher

"The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found their way to Iceland where its text was later translated into the vernacular and known as Nirstigningar saga."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Abbreviations

1. The Latin Evangelium Nicodemi in Medieval Europe

2. The Manuscript Tradition of Niðrstigningar saga

3. The Manuscript Filiation of Niðrstigningar saga

4. The Latin Source Text Underlying Niðrstigningar saga

5. The Textual Interpolations of Niðrstigningar saga

6. The Theological Context of Niðrstigningar saga

7. Conclusion

Notes

Texts

Translations

Bibliography

Index of Scriptural Quotations

Index of Manuscripts

General Index

Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic Series

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 16. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781442698000

1442698004

9781442694491

1442694491

OCLC:

1020621180