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Sanctity in the North [electronic resource] : saints, lives, and cults in Medieval Scandinavia / edited by Thomas A. DuBois.

Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Latin, Old Norse Series: Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studiesPublication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2008 2010)Description: 1 online resource (viii, 399 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., music)ISBN:
  • 9781442689060 (electronic bk.)
  • 1442689064 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sanctity in the North.DDC classification:
  • 274.80092/2
LOC classification:
  • PT7257 .S22 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-373) and index.

Includes some text translated from Latin and Nordic languages.

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.

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