Medieval Slavic Lives of Saints and Prices
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File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Saints
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Page : pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Saints
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Author : Marvin Kantor
Publisher : University of Michigan Department of Slavic Lang Ures
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Gareth Williams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : 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.
Author : Mirela Ivanova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : 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.
Author : Henrik Birnbaum
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110885913
Author : Haki Antonsson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 21,41 MB
Release : 2007
Category : 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.
Author : Richard Gameson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 16,77 MB
Release : 2001-04-12
Category : 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.
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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Humanities
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Author : Αριέττα Παπακωνσταντίνου
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780884023562
Becoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium presents detailed information about children's lives, and provides a basis for further study. This collection of eight articles covers matters relevant to daily life such as the definition of children in Byzantine law, procreation, death, breastfeeding patterns, and material culture.
Author : Eve Levin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1501727621
In this pioneering book, Eve Levin explores sexual behavior among the peoples of Serbia, Bulgaria, and Russia from their conversion to Christianity in the ninth and tenth centuries until the end of the seventeenth century. By ranging across all these societies, Levin is able to fulfill three basic aims: to delineate the general character of sexuality among the Orthodox Slavs, to enrich that account by drawing our attention to regional variations in the sexual mores of these peoples, and to draw suggestive comparisons between the world of the medieval Orthodox Slavs and their contemporaries in the Latin West. Levin begins with a study of the ecclesiastical image of sexuality as expressed in didactic and literary texts, showing that the Orthodox Church was deeply suspicious of sexuality. Her second chapter, on canon law and marfiage, examines the conditions for marriage, divorce, and remarriage, the obligation of the conjugal relationship, and the impact of these rules on social order. Levin looks at church regulations concerning sexual relations among relatives by blood, marriage, spiritual kinship, and adoption in Chapter Three, and she devotes Chapter Four to prohibited sexual practices, both inside and outside of marriage. In the fifth chapter she studies Russian and South Slavic responses to rape, and demonstrates that these societies simultaneously censured violence against women and sanctioned the attitudes and social structures that justified it. Chapter Six deals with the rules on sexual conduct for the clergy, whose job it was to enforce sexual precepts. Throughout her work, Levin argues that, despite its conviction that sexual expression was diabolical, the medieval Orthodox Church approached sexual matters in a surprisingly practical way; its official sexual ethic corresponded to a great degree with popular views. Historians of the Slavic world, both medieval and modern, will welcome this accessible study. It should also attract comparativists who work in such fields as church history, the history of women and the family, and the history of sexuality.