Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-362) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction: The splendor of the saints / Dario Bullitta -- Part I: Rannsqkun Heilagra Boka: The search for holy books -- Medieval Icelandic hagiography: The state of the art / Kirsten Wolf -- An old Norse adaption of an All Saints sermon by Maurice de Sully / Stephen Pelle -- The Tuscan provenance of Framfor Mariu / Dario Bullitta -- Part II: Heilagir Byskupar: Holy bishops -- Latin oratory at the edge of the world: The fragments of Gizurr Hallsson’s *Gesta Scalotensis ecclesie presulem and the *Vita sancti Thorlaci / Gottskalk Jensson -- Three scenes from Jons saga helga: A typological mode of thought in early Icelandic hagiography / Haki Antonsson -- Larentiuss saga byskups: Between history and historiography / Fulvio Ferrari -- Remembering saints and bishops in medieval Iceland / Asdis Egilsdottir -- Part III: Heilagir Karlar Ok Englar: Holy men and angels -- Pat voro lavg munka: A reading of Benedikts saga in light of the Regula sancti Benedicti / Mauro Camiz -- The lore of St Dominic in medieval Iceland and Norway / Simonetta Battista -- The veneration of St Michael in medieval Iceland / Margaret Cormack -- Part IV: Heilagar Meyjar: Holy maidens -- Katrinarholar: St Catherine’s hills, milk, and Mount Sinai / Helgi Porlaksson -- St Agnes of Rome in late medieval and early modern Icelandic verse / Natalie M. Van Deusen.
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