Sanctity in the North
Sanctity in the North saints, lives, and cults in Medieval Scandinavia / [electronic resource] :
edited by Thomas A. DuBois.
- Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2008
- 1 online resource (viii, 399 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., music)
- Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies .
- Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-373) and index.
St Ansgar : his Swedish mission and its larger context / Scott A. Mellor -- Sts Sunniva and Henrik : Scandinavian martyr saints in their hagiographic and national contexts / Thomas A. Dubois -- St Olaf and the skalds / John Lindow -- Sacred non-violence, cowardice profaned : St Magnus of Orkney in Nordic hagiography and historiograaphy / Maria-Claudia Tomany -- St Knud Lavard : a saint for Denmark / Thomas A. Dubois and Niels Ingwersen -- The cult of St Eric, king and martyr, in medieval Sweden / Tracey R. Sands -- Pride and politics in late-twelfth-century Iceland : the sanctity of Bishop Thorlakr Thórhallsson / Kirsten Wolf -- St Katarina in her own light / Thomas A. Dubois -- Hendreks saga og Kunegundis : marital consent in the legend of Henry and Cunegund / Marianne E. Kalinke -- Better off dead : approaches to medieval miracles / Margaret Cormack.
Includes some text translated from Latin and Nordic languages.
9781442689060 (electronic bk.) 1442689064 (electronic bk.)
Christian saints--Scandinavia.
Christian saints--Cult--Scandinavia.
Spirituality--History--Scandinavia--To 1500.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Scandinavia--Translations into English.
Scandinavian literature--Translations into English.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--History and criticism.--Scandinavia
Scandinavian literature--History and criticism.
Christian hagiography.
RELIGION / Christianity / History
Electronic books.
PT7257 / .S22 2007eb
274.80092/2
Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-373) and index.
St Ansgar : his Swedish mission and its larger context / Scott A. Mellor -- Sts Sunniva and Henrik : Scandinavian martyr saints in their hagiographic and national contexts / Thomas A. Dubois -- St Olaf and the skalds / John Lindow -- Sacred non-violence, cowardice profaned : St Magnus of Orkney in Nordic hagiography and historiograaphy / Maria-Claudia Tomany -- St Knud Lavard : a saint for Denmark / Thomas A. Dubois and Niels Ingwersen -- The cult of St Eric, king and martyr, in medieval Sweden / Tracey R. Sands -- Pride and politics in late-twelfth-century Iceland : the sanctity of Bishop Thorlakr Thórhallsson / Kirsten Wolf -- St Katarina in her own light / Thomas A. Dubois -- Hendreks saga og Kunegundis : marital consent in the legend of Henry and Cunegund / Marianne E. Kalinke -- Better off dead : approaches to medieval miracles / Margaret Cormack.
Includes some text translated from Latin and Nordic languages.
9781442689060 (electronic bk.) 1442689064 (electronic bk.)
Christian saints--Scandinavia.
Christian saints--Cult--Scandinavia.
Spirituality--History--Scandinavia--To 1500.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Scandinavia--Translations into English.
Scandinavian literature--Translations into English.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--History and criticism.--Scandinavia
Scandinavian literature--History and criticism.
Christian hagiography.
RELIGION / Christianity / History
Electronic books.
PT7257 / .S22 2007eb
274.80092/2
