Medieval Slavic Lives of Saints and Prices
Title | Medieval Slavic Lives of Saints and Prices PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Saints |
ISBN |
Medieval Slavic Lives of Saints and Princes
Title | Medieval Slavic Lives of Saints and Princes PDF eBook |
Author | Marvin Kantor |
Publisher | University of Michigan Department of Slavic Lang Ures |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Sagas, Saints and Settlements
Title | Sagas, Saints and Settlements PDF eBook |
Author | Gareth Williams |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 2004-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9047405188 |
This volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With contributions by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Phil Cardew, Haki Antonsson, Gareth Williams, Barbara Crawford and Simon Taylor.
Inventing Slavonic
Title | Inventing Slavonic PDF eBook |
Author | Mirela Ivanova |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2024-02-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198891504 |
In this meticulously researched study, Mirela Ivanova offers a new critical history of the invention of the Slavonic alphabet. Showing how the alphabet was not invented once, but rather continually contested and redefined in the century following its creation, Ivanova challenges the prevalent nationalist historiography that has built up around it.
On Medieval and Renaissance Slavic Writing
Title | On Medieval and Renaissance Slavic Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Henrik Birnbaum |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2014-10-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110885913 |
St. Magnús of Orkney
Title | St. Magnús of Orkney PDF eBook |
Author | Haki Antonsson |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004155805 |
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.
Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages
Title | Belief and Culture in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Gameson |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2001-04-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191543039 |
Are there angels within spitting distance of men? What did Pope Gregory the Great think of pagans? Were the monks of Battle compulsive forgers? Is temptation always a bad thing? These and many other fascinating questions are explored in this book. Commisssioned in honour of the distinguished medieval historian, Henry Mayr-Harting and reflecting the range and focus of its honorand's interests, the twenty-five essays provide a panoramic and stimulating exploration of the interrelated fields of belief and culture in the middle ages. Sanctity and sacred biography, seduction and temptation, forgery and litigation, patronage and art production, conversion and oppression were all part of the rich fabric of medieval Christian culture that is scrutinized here. Individually the studies shed new light on a series of key issues and questions relating to the cultural, religious, and political history of the sixth-century church, of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, and of Carolingian, Ottonian, and Investiture Contest Europe; while collectively they illuminate the interaction of Christianity and politics, of secular and sacred, and of belief and culture from late antiquity to the thirteenth century.