| Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia Contributor(s): DuBois, Thomas (Editor) |
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ISBN: 080209130X ISBN-13: 9780802091307 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $105.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Scandinavia - History | Europe - Medieval |
| Dewey: 274.800 |
| Series: Toronto Old Norse-Icelandic Series (Tonis) |
| Physical Information: 1.21" H x 6.33" W x 9.05" (1.63 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Scandinavian - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: With original translations of primary texts and articles by leading researchers in the field, Sanctity in the North gives an introduction to the literary production associated with the cult of the saints in medieval Scandinavia. For more than five hundred years, Nordic clerics and laity venerated a host of saints through liturgical celebrations, written manuscripts, visual arts, and oral traditions. Textual evidence of this widespread and important aspect of medieval spirituality abounds. Written biographies (or vitae), compendia of witnessed miracles, mass propers, homilies, sagas and chronicles, dramatic scripts, hymns, and ballads are among the region's surviving medieval manuscripts and early published books. Sanctity in the North features English translations of texts from Latin or vernacular Nordic languages, in many cases for the first time. The accompanying essays concerning the texts, saints, cults, and history of the period complement the translations and reflect the contributors' own disciplinary groundings in folklore, philology, medieval, and religious studies. |
Contributor Bio(s): DuBois, Thomas: - Thomas A. DuBois is a professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |