Medieval Iceland
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Culture And History In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Kirsten Hastrup
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1985
Culture And History In Medieval Iceland written by Kirsten Hastrup and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Business & Economics categories.
In 930, Iceland first established a common law for the island and became an autonomous republic, which lasted until it came under the sovereignty of the Norwegian king nearly three and a half centuries later. This volume is a two-part analysis of that society, known as the Icelandic "commonwealth" or "Freestate." The first section examines how medieval Icelanders classified and perceived such domains as time, space, kinship, political organization, and cosmology, linking together these various realms to present an integrated picture of the society's world-view. The second section focuses on the changes that took place during the period in the fields of ecology, demography, religion, property relations, and the law, and explains how and why these changes, interacting with more fundamental social structures and beliefs, undermined--and ultimately destroyed--the society.
Medieval Iceland
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Author : Jesse L. Byock
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1990-02-07
Medieval Iceland written by Jesse L. Byock and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-02-07 with History categories.
Gift of Joan Wall. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-248) and index. * glr 20090610.
Violence And Risk In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Oren Falk
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-25
Violence And Risk In Medieval Iceland written by Oren Falk and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-25 with History categories.
Historians spend a lot of time thinking about violence: bloodshed and feats of heroism punctuate practically every narration of the past. Yet historians have been slow to subject 'violence' itself to conceptual analysis. What aspects of the past do we designate violent? To what methodological assumptions do we commit ourselves when we employ this term? How may we approach the category 'violence' in a specifically historical way, and what is it that we explain when we write its history? Astonishingly, such questions are seldom even voiced, much less debated, in the historical literature. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland: This Spattered Isle lays out a cultural history model for understanding violence. Using interdisciplinary tools, it argues that violence is a positively constructed asset, deployed along three principal axes - power, signification, and risk. Analysing violence in instrumental terms, as an attempt to coerce others, focuses on power. Analysing it in symbolic terms, as an attempt to communicate meanings, focuses on signification. Finally, analysing it in cognitive terms, as an attempt to exercise agency despite imperfect control over circumstances, focuses on risk. Violence and Risk in Medieval Iceland explores a place and time notorious for its rampant violence. Iceland's famous sagas hold treasure troves of circumstantial data, ideally suited for past-tense ethnography, yet demand that the reader come up with subtle and innovative methodologies for recovering histories from their stories. The sagas throw into sharp relief the kinds of analytic insights we obtain through cultural interpretation, offering lessons that apply to other epochs too.
The Dynamics Of Medieval Iceland
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Author : E. Paul Durrenberger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Dynamics Of Medieval Iceland written by E. Paul Durrenberger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
As witness to four hundred years of social, economic, and political change, the sagas of medieval Iceland provide access not only to a single energetic past but to processes of continual change. In this innovative book, which connects the political economy of medieval Iceland and its rich cultural artifacts, E. Paul Durrenberger brings anthropological perspectives to bear on the study of medieval Iceland and brings medieval Iceland into the purview of anthropology. The social order of stratified, stateless medieval Iceland contained a dynamism that inexorably led to the discord of the Sturlung age. Icelanders interpreted their experiences within existing cultural categories and from these interpretations produced the family sagas and the Sturlung sagas. Durrenberger convincingly argues that the sagas are not simply thirteenth-century accounts of earlier times but also the cultural artifacts of the age that created them; moreover, the free translations of the sagas are really nineteenth- and twentieth-century artifacts that impose market and modern state perspectives on the radically different society of medieval Iceland. The rendering of the sagas as a political act revaluing honor, reciprocity, and law can be understood only in the cultural context of their time. For anthropologists unfamiliar with the Icelandic tradition, Durrenberger meticulously illustrates his arguments with contextual analyses of saga plots and episodes. He presents his anthropological theses in a way that will enlighten historians, social scientists, and saga and other literary scholars. By addressing methodological issues of translation and contextualization and using sophisticated models of medieval domesticeconomy and cross-cultural comparisons, The Dynamics of Medieval Iceland serves as an exemplary case study in the expansion of social contexts for literary analysis as well as in the anthropological use of literary and historical data.
Legendary Fiction In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Hermann Pálsson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Legendary Fiction In Medieval Iceland written by Hermann Pálsson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Civilization, Medieval, in literature categories.
Bridal Quest Romance In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Marianne E. Kalinke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Bridal Quest Romance In Medieval Iceland written by Marianne E. Kalinke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
First overview and analysis of a popular 13th- and 14th-centur form, focusing on heroic and chivalric sagas.
The Medieval Icelandic Saga And Oral Tradition
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Author : Gísli Sigurðsson
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2004
The Medieval Icelandic Saga And Oral Tradition written by Gísli Sigurðsson and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Criticism categories.
This work explores the role of orality in shaping and evaluating medieval Icelandic literature. Applying field studies of oral cultures in modern times to this distinguished medieval literature, Gísli Sigurðsson asks how it would alter our reading of medieval Icelandic sagas if it were assumed they had grown out of a tradition of oral storytelling, similar to that observed in living cultures. Sigurðsson examines how orally trained lawspeakers regarded the emergent written culture, especially in light of the fact that the writing down of the law in the early twelfth century undermined their social status. Part II considers characters, genealogies, and events common to several sagas from the east of Iceland between which a written link cannot be established. Part III explores the immanent or mental map provided to the listening audience of the location of Vinland by the sagas about the Vinland voyages. Finally, this volume focuses on how accepted foundations for research on medieval texts are affected if an underlying oral tradition (of the kind we know from the modern field work) is assumed as part of their cultural background. This point is emphasized through the examination of parallel passages from two sagas and from mythological overlays in an otherwise secular text.
Prolonged Echoes The Reception Of Norse Myths In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Margaret Clunies Ross
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Southern Denmark
Release Date : 1998
Prolonged Echoes The Reception Of Norse Myths In Medieval Iceland written by Margaret Clunies Ross and has been published by University Press of Southern Denmark this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fiction categories.
Prolonged Echoes is the second volume in the two volume study of Old Norse myths and their meaning both for us and for medieval Scandinavians, -- some of whom we should thank for the myths' written transmission through the Middle Ages and into modern times. The subject of Vol. 2 is the reception and use of Old Norse myths by the Cristian community of medieval Iceland. It requires us to consider a wider range of Old Icelandic texts, including those studied in volume one but extending to works that, while not taking myth as their subject, utilise it and references to it in their larger discourse. A number of excellent general studies that are available to assist readers unfamiliar with recent writing on early medieval Scandinavia are listed as an addendum.
Culture And History In Medieval Iceland
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Author : Kirsten Hastrup
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Culture And History In Medieval Iceland written by Kirsten Hastrup and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
The Mappae Mundi Of Medieval Iceland
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Author : Dale Kedwards
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2020
The Mappae Mundi Of Medieval Iceland written by Dale Kedwards and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Art categories.
Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Icelandic Hemispherical World Maps -- Chapter 2 The Icelandic Zonal Map -- Chapter 3 The Two Maps from Viðey -- Chapter 4 Iceland in Europe -- Chapter 5 Forty Icelandic Priests and a Map of the World -- Conclusion -- Map Texts and Translations -- The Icelandic Hemispherical World Maps -- The Icelandic Zonal Map -- The Larger Viðey Map -- The Smaller Viðey Map -- Bibliography -- Index -- Studies in Old Norse Literature.