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With The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose, Kirsten Wolf has undertaken a complete revision of the fifty-year-old handlistThe Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose.
Author : Kirsten Wolf
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442646217
With The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose, Kirsten Wolf has undertaken a complete revision of the fifty-year-old handlistThe Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose.
Author : Kirsten Wolf
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1487500742
The Saints in Old Norse and Early Modern Icelandic Poetry is a complimentary volume to The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose (UTP 2013). This volume focuses on Icelandic devotional poetry created during the early modern period.
Author : Kirsten Wolf
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442665165
Saints’ legends form a substantial portion of Old Norse–Icelandic literature, and can be found in more than four hundred manuscripts or fragments of manuscripts dating from shortly before the twelfth century to the 1700s. With The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose, Kirsten Wolf has undertaken a complete revision of the fifty-year-old handlist The Lives of the Saints in Old Norse Prose. This updated handlist organizes saints’ names, manuscripts, and editions of individual lives with references to the approximate dates of the manuscripts, as well as modern Icelandic editions and translations. Each entry concludes with secondary literature about the legend in question. These features combine to make The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse–Icelandic Prose an invaluable resource for scholars and students in the field.
Author : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : Studies and Texts
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The legend of Saint Barbara is preserved in two 15th-century manuscripts which are presented here on facing pages followed by an English translation. In addition, Wolf presents the Latin source text Passio Sancte Barbare . The texts are preceded by a lengthy and heavily annotated discussion of the legend's manuscripts, sources and content which also places the legend within the literary and historical context of Scandinavia and Iceland.
Author : Massimiliano Bampi
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,74 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary form
ISBN : 1843845644
A comprehensive guide to a crucial aspect of Old Norse literature.
Author : Daniel C. Najork
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1501514148
Maríu saga, the Old Norse-Icelandic life of the Virgin Mary, survives in nineteen manuscripts. While the 1871 edition of the saga provides two versions based on multiple manuscripts and prints significant variants in the notes, it does not preserve the literary and social contexts of those manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Maríu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. This study restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the meaning of the text within its manuscript matrix, why it was copied in the specific manuscripts it was, and how it was read and used by the different communities that preserved the manuscripts.
Author : Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000830152
This book provides an overview of medieval monasticism in Iceland, from its dawn to its downfall during the Reformation. Blending the evidence from material remains and written documents, Monastic Iceland highlights the realities of everyday life in the male and female monasteries operated in Iceland. The book describes the incorporation of monasticism into the Icelandic society, the alleged land of the Vikings, and thus how the monasteries coexisted with the natural and social environments on the island while keeping their general aims and objectives. The book shows that large social systems, such as monasticism, can cross social and natural borders without necessitating fundamental changes apart from those triggered by the constant coexistence of nature and culture inside the environment they exist within. The evidence provided debunks the myth that Icelandic monasteries, male or female, were isolated, silent places or simple cells functioning principally as retirement homes for aristocrats. To be a member of an ecclesiastical institution did not mean a quiet, secluded life without any outside interaction, but rather active participation in the surrounding community. The book is for researchers in archaeology, osteology, and medieval history, in addition to all those interested in monasticism and the medieval history of northern Europe.
Author : Stephen Pelle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Iceland
ISBN : 184384611X
An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.
Author : Jane Cartwright
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 31,65 MB
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1783168692
The cult of St Ursula and the 11,000 virgins was one of the most popular and relic-rich of all saints’ cults in the medieval period. This volume constitutes the first interdisciplinary collection of essays in English to explore the development and transmission of the legend of St Ursula in detail, considering a wealth of different sources including physical remains, literary texts, artistic representations and medieval music.
Author : Dario Bullitta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 13,66 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1442698004
The Evangelium Nicodemi, or Gospel of Nicodemus, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the Evangelium Nicodemi found their way to Iceland where its text was later translated into the vernacular and known as Niðrstigningar saga. Dario Bullitta has embarked on a highly fascinating voyage that traces the routes of transmission of the Latin text to Iceland and continental Scandinavia. He argues that the saga is derived from a less popular twelfth-century French redaction of the Evangelium Nicodemi, and that it bears the exegetical and scriptural influences of twelfth-century Parisian scholars active at Saint Victor, Peter Comestor and Peter Lombard in particular. By placing Niðrstigningar saga within the greater theological and homiletical context of early thirteenth-century Iceland, Bullitta successfully adds to our knowledge of the early reception of Latin biblical and apocryphal literature in medieval Iceland and provides a new critical edition and translation of the vernacular text.