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Title:

The making of Christian myths in the periphery of Latin christendom (c. 1000-1300) / edited by Lars Boje Mortensen.

Publisher:

Museum Tusculanum PressUniversity of Copenhagen,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

348 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Religious thought--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Mythology, European--History--To 1500.
Christian hagiography--History--To 1500.
Europe--Church history--600-1500.
Europe--History, Local--To 1500.
Europe--Historiography--To 1500.

Other Authors:

Mortensen, Lars Boje.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Reflections on historiography and the holy: center and periphery / Patrick Geary. Pilgrims, missionaries and martyrs : the holy in Bede, Orkneyinga saga, and Knýtlinga saga / Carl Phelpstead -- The function of the saints in early Bohemian historical writing / Marie Bláhová -- The beginnings of local hagiography in Iceland : the lives of Bishops Þorlákr and Jón / Ásdis Egilsdóttir -- The friend of the meek : the late medieval miracles of a twelfth-century Icelandic saint / Ármann Jakobsson -- God and the saints in medieval Polish historiography / Norbert Kersken -- In the presence of the dead : Saint Canute the Duke in Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta danorum / Karsten Friis -- Royal saints in Hungarian chronicles, legends and liturgy / Lázló Veszprémy Sanctified beginnings and mythopoietic moments : the first wave of writing on the past in Norway, Denmark, and Hungary, c. 1000-1230 / Lars Boje Mortensen -- Divine elections for nations : a difficult rhetoric for medieval scholars? / Mary Garrison -- Constructing religious pasts : summary reflections / Håkan Rydving -- Reflections on historiography and the holy: center and periphery / Patrick Geary.

ISBN:

9788763504072
8763504073

OCLC:

(OCoLC)70574091

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)