Hagiography and Episcopal Authority in Medieval Iceland : St Ambrose of Milan and the Militant Biskupa sögur / Davide Salmoiraghi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salmoiraghi, Davide, author.

Series:

Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

The Northern World ; 102.

Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

The Northern World ; 102

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

St Ambrose of Milan and the Militant Biskupa sögur

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Hagiography and Episcopal Authority in Medieval Iceland , Davide Salmoiraghi studies how Saints’ sagas served to promote Gregorian ideals of ecclesiastical independence in the thirteenth-century Icelandic Church. Davide Salmoiraghi focuses on the Nordic reception of St Ambrose of Milan (374–397), the most renowned militant bishop in the battle between regnum and sacerdotium , showing how the Old Norse version of his hagiography ( Ambrósíuss saga biskups ) influenced the sagas of those bishops who fought to free the Icelandic Church from secular control.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

Abbreviations and Conventions

Introduction

1Saints’ Sagas

2Bishops’ Sagas

3Scope of the Research and Methodological Issues

1 St Ambrose of Milan in Medieval Iceland

1The Twelfth Century

2The Thirteenth Century

3The Fourteenth Century

4The Fifteenth Century

5The Sixteenth Century

6Preliminary Conclusions

2 Ambrósíuss saga biskups and the Church Militant

1The Structure and Contents of Ambrósíuss saga

2Literary Activity and the Staðamál

3Ambrósíuss saga and Episcopal Authority

4Conclusions

3 St Ambrose as Model for Bishops from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages

1Introduction

2Writing and Re-writing St Ambrose from Late Antiquity to the Carolingian Era

3St Ambrose and Theodosius, the Investiture Controversy, and the Gregorian Reform

4St Ambrose in Medieval Scandinavia

5Preliminary Conclusions

4 Communio sanctorum and the Archbishopric of Niðaróss. Models of Legitimation in Þorláks sögur

1 The Manuscript Tradition of Þorláks sögur

2Bishop Þorlákr and the Reform of the Church

3Hagiography and Þorláks sögur

4Preliminary Conclusions

5Re-constructing a Cult: the Presence of St Ambrose in Guðmundar sögur

1 The Manuscript Tradition of Guðmundar sögur

2Bishop Guðmundr’s Devotion to St Ambrose of Milan

3St Ambrose and St Thomas Becket in Guðmundar sögur

4Arngrímr Brandsson’s Guðmundar saga

6Re-enacting Ambrose in Árna saga biskups

1 Árna saga biskups

2Árna saga biskups and Its Hagiographic Sources

3Comparing Bishops: Similarities and Differences in the Episcopates of Ambrose and Árni

4The Influence of Ambrósíuss saga on the Composition of Árna saga

Conclusions

Appendix: the Saga of Bishop Ambrose

Bibliography

General Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789004765221

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004765221 DOI