Sanctity in the North

Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia

400 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Europäische Geschichte Mittelalter
• ISBN: 9780802091307
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2008
• Größe: 242 x 164 mm
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Herausgegeben von: Thomas DuBois