The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas write by Ármann Jakobsson. This book was released on 2017-02-17. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials. This volume will be of interest to Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists in general.
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas write by Ármann Jakobsson. This book was released on 2017-02-17. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials. This volume will be of interest to Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists in general.
Medieval Iceland: Politics, Patronage and Power
Medieval Iceland: Politics, Patronage and Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Iceland: Politics, Patronage and Power write by Sverrir Jakobsson. This book was released on 2024-10. Medieval Iceland: Politics, Patronage and Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a review of Icelandic history from the settlement until the advent of the Reformation, with an emphasis on social and political change, but also on cultural developments such as the creation of a particular kind of literature, known throughout the world as the sagas.
Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders
Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders write by William H. Norman. This book was released on 2021-07-29. Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores accounts in the Sagas of Icelanders of encounters with foreign peoples, both abroad and in Iceland, who are portrayed according to stereotypes which vary depending on their origins. Notably, inhabitants of the places identified in the sagas as Írland, Skotland and Vínland are portrayed as being less civilized than the Icelanders themselves. This book explores the ways in which the Íslendingasögur emphasize this relative barbarity through descriptions of diet, material culture, style of warfare and character. These characteristics are discussed in relation to parallel descriptions of Icelandic characters and lifestyle within the Íslendingasögur, and also in the context of a tradition in contemporary European literature, which portrayed the Icelanders themselves as barbaric. Comparisons are made with descriptions of barbarians in classical Roman texts, primarily Sallust, but also Caesar and Tacitus, showing striking similarities between Roman and Icelandic ideas about barbarians.
Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400
Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400 write by Ármann Jakobsson. This book was released on 2020-03-23. Paranormal Encounters in Iceland 1150–1400 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology of international scholarship offers new critical approaches to the study of the many manifestations of the paranormal in the Middle Ages. The guiding principle of the collection is to depart from symbolic or reductionist readings of the subject matter in favor of focusing on the paranormal as human experience and, essentially, on how these experiences are defined by the sources. The authors work with a variety of medieval Icelandic textual sources, including family sagas, legendary sagas, romances, poetry, hagiography and miracles, exploring the diversity of paranormal activity in the medieval North. This volume questions all previous definitions of the subject matter, most decisively the idea of saga realism, and opens up new avenues in saga research.
