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Author: Erika Sigurdson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-08-09
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9004301569
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Church in Fourteenth-Century Iceland, Erika Sigurdson offers an account of the fourteenth-century Icelandic Church, and the development of an elite beneficed clergy after the ecclesiastical reforms of the late thirteenth century.
Author: Agnes Siggerour Arnorsdottir
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Published: 2010-05-31
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 8779342051
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Christianity changed the culture and society of Iceland, as it also did in other parts of Northern Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. One of the important areas of change involved the introduction of new rules on the legal requirements for marriage. Property and Virginity examines Icelandic law codes, marriage contracts, and other documents related to court proceedings. Based on extensive source material never researched before, this pioneer study explores the very gradual Christianization of marriage in Iceland. It shows that this process, which lasted for hundreds of years, had consequences for family and kinship politics, for inheritance and property transfer, and for gender relations. As canon law began to change the old ritual of betrothal, the virginal state of the woman entering marriage gained greater importance. At the same time, marriage in the Late Middle Ages continued to include many elements of its older understanding as a contract concerning property transfer between families. A new perception of gender relations also arose, whereby women became partners in the actual contract-making. The 'handshake' was now between the husband and wife, instead of between the father of the bride and her future husband. The rituals connected to the different bonds gained new meaning: marriage was no longer a financial matter alone, but also involved religious beliefs and a closer union of the spouses.
Author: Orri Vesteinsson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2000-05-18
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0191543020
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this first historical study of High-Medieval Iceland to be published in English, Dr Vesteinsson investigates the influence of the Christian Church on the formation of the earliest state structures in Iceland, from the conversion in 1000 to the union with Norway in 1262. In the history of mankind states and state structures have usually been established before the advent of written records. As a result historians are rarely able to trace with certainty the early development of complex structures of government. In Iceland, literacy and the practice of native history writing had been established by the beginning of the twelfth century; whereas the formation of a centralised government did not occur until more than a hundred years later. The early development of statelike structures has therefore been unusually well chronicled, in the Icelandic Sagas, and in the historical records of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Based on this wealth of material,The Christianization of Iceland is an important contribution to the discussion on the formation of states.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-16
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9004465510
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the life and times of Jón Halldórsson, bishop of Skálholt (1322–39), a Dominican who had studied the liberal arts and canon law in Paris and Bologna, and provides a snapshot with wider implications for understanding of medieval literacy.
Author: Ármann Jakobsson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-02-17
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 1317041461
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials. This volume will be of interest to Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists in general.
Author: Ryder Patzuk-Russell
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-02-08
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1501514180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Medieval Iceland is known for the fascinating body of literary works it produced, from ornate court poetry to mythological treatises to sagas of warrior-poets and feud culture. This book investigates the institutions and practices of education which lay behind not only this literary corpus, but the whole of medieval Icelandic culture, religion, and society. By bringing together a broad spectrum of sources, including sagas, law codes, and grammatical treatises, it addresses the history of education in medieval Iceland from multiple perspectives. It shows how the slowly developing institutions of the church shaped educational practices within an entirely rural society with its own distinct vernacular culture. It emphasizes the importance of Latin, despite the lack of surviving manuscripts, and teaching and learning in a highly decentralized environment. Within this context, it explores how medieval grammatical education was adapted for bilingual clerical education, which in turn helped create a separate and fully vernacularized grammatical discourse.
Author: Elizabeth Walgenbach
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-05-25
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9004461469
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book focuses on excommunication, outlawry, and the connections between them in medieval Icelandic legal and literary sources. It argues that outlawry was a punishment shaped by the conventions and structures of excommunication as it developed in canon law.
Author: Lilja Árnadóttir
Publisher:
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9789979900542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Haraldur Hreinsson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-03-29
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9004449574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Haraldur Hreinsson examines the social and political significance of the Christian religion as the Roman Church was taking hold in medieval Iceland in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.
