Sanctity in the North : Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia / Thomas DuBois.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Dubois, T. (Thomas), Editor.

Series:

• Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies ; 3.
• Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (TONIS)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Christian saints--Scandinavia.
• Christian saints--Cult--Scandinavia.
• Spirituality--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.
• Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Scandinavia--Translations into English.
• Scandinavian literature--Translations into English.
• Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Scandinavia--History and criticism.
• Scandinavian literature--History and criticism.
• Christian hagiography.
• Scandinavia.

Genre:

• Translations.
• History.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With original translations of primary texts and articles by leading researchers in the field, Sanctity in the North gives an introduction to the literary production associated with the cult of the saints in medieval Scandinavia.For more than five hundred years, Nordic clerics and laity venerated a host of saints through liturgical celebrations, written manuscripts, visual arts, and oral traditions. Textual evidence of this widespread and important aspect of medieval spirituality abounds. Written biographies (or vitae), compendia of witnessed miracles, mass propers, homilies, sagas and chronicles, dramatic scripts, hymns, and ballads are among the region's surviving medieval manuscripts and early published books.Sanctity in the North features English translations of texts from Latin or vernacular Nordic languages, in many cases for the first time. The accompanying essays concerning the texts, saints, cults, and history of the period complement the translations and reflect the contributors' own disciplinary groundings in folklore, philology, medieval, and religious studies.

Contents:

• St Ansgar : his Swedish mission and its larger context / Scott A. Mellor
• Sts Sunniva and Henrik : Scandinavian martyr saints in their hagiographic and national contexts / Thomas A. Dubois
• St Olaf and the skalds / John Lindow
• Sacred non-violence, cowardice profaned : St Magnus of Orkney in Nordic hagiography and historiograaphy / Maria-Claudia Tomany
• St Knud Lavard : a saint for Denmark / Thomas A. Dubois and Niels Ingwersen
• The cult of St Eric, king and martyr, in medieval Sweden / Tracey R. Sands
• Pride and politics in late-twelfth-century Iceland : the sanctity of Bishop Thorlakr Thórhallsson / Kirsten Wolf
• St Katarina in her own light / Thomas A. Dubois
• Hendreks saga og Kunegundis : marital consent in the legend of Henry and Cunegund / Marianne E. Kalinke
• Better off dead : approaches to medieval miracles / Margaret Cormack.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

• 1-4426-9124-7
• 1-4426-8906-4

OCLC:

923772149