Sanctity in the North saints, lives, and cults in Medieval Scandinavia - DuBois, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew), 1960- (Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2008)
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 bibliographical references (p. [353]-373) and index.
Includes some text translated from Latin and Nordic languages.
Keywords: Christian saints -- Scandinavia; Christian saints -- Cult -- Scandinavia; Spirituality -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500.; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Scandinavia -- Translations into English; Scandinavian literature -- Translations into English; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Scandinavia -- History and criticism; Scandinavian literature -- History and criticism; Christian hagiography; RELIGION / Christianity / History; Electronic books