Author: B. E. CrawfordPublisher: Mercat Press Books
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
St. Magnus Cathedral and Orkney's Twelfth-century Renaissance
Author: B. E. CrawfordPublisher: Mercat Press Books
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance
Author: R.N. SwansonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719042560
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This volume surveys the wide range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period 1050-1250. The Twelfth-Century Renaissance first establishes the broader context for the changes and introduces the debate on the validity of the term "Renaissance" as a label for the period. Summarizing current scholarship, without imposing a particular interpretation of the issues, the book provides an accessible introduction to a vibrant and vital period in Europe’s cultural and intellectual history.
St. Magnús of Orkney
Author: Haki AntonssonPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004155805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book looks at the emergence of the cult of St Magnus, earl of Orkney (d. 1117), and the literary corpus composed in his honour. Both aspects are examined from a wider Scandinavian and European perspective.
Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004205071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Ideology and power are central elements in the political, social, religious and cultural development of the North during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages. While the medieval European Christian ideology of rulership has been widely discussed, an analysis of the Nordic pre-Christian ideology, and of its confrontation with the new European ideals has so far been lacking. This book examines the concepts and practices associated with chieftains, earls and kings from the ninth to the thirteenth century: the myths and rituals surrounding their position in a northern European warrior culture. The analysis seems to indicate that important elements of the pre-Christian ideology of rulership survived into the Christian Middle Ages, either transformed or even simply transferred. Contributors are Ian Beuermann, Anders Hultgård, Jan Erik Rekdal, Jens Peter Schjødt, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Joanna Skórzewska, Gro Steinsland and Olof Sundqvist.
Viking Empires
Author: Angelo FortePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521829922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Viking Empires, first published in 2005, is a definitive global history of the Viking World.
History of Everyday Life in Medieval Scotland
Author: Edward J CowanPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748688609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600.
Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots
Author: C. KeenePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137035641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman.
Origin Legends in Early Medieval Western Europe
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900452066X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
This volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation.
Celtic-Norse Relationships in the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages 800-1200
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004255125
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held in Oslo in late 2005, which brought together scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines from Scandinavia, Great Britain and Ireland. The papers here began as those read at the conference, augmented by two written immediately after by attendees, but have been updated in light of the discussions in Oslo and more recent scholarship. They offer historical, archaeological, art-historical, religious-historical and philological views of the interaction and interdependence of Celtic and Norse populations in the Irish Sea region in the period 800 A.D.-1200 A.D. Contributors are Ian Beuermann, Barbara Crawford, Claire Downham, Fiona Edmonds, Colmán Etchingham, Zanette T. Glørstad, John Hines, Alan Lane, Julie Lund, Jan Erik Rekdal and David Wyatt.
History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen
Author: Adam of BremenPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231500858
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Adam of Bremen's history of the see of Hamburg and of Christian missions in northern Europe from the late eighth to the late eleventh century is the primary source of our knowledge of the history, geography, and ethnography of the Scandinavian and Baltic regions and their peoples before the thirteenth century. Arriving in Bremen in 1066 and soon falling under the tutelage of Archbishop Adalbert, who figures prominently in the narrative, Adam recorded the centuries-long campaign by his church to convert Slavic and Scandinavian peoples. His History vividly reflects the firsthand accounts he received from travelers, traders, and missionaries on the peripheries of medieval Europe.