Sagas, Saints and Settlements (The Northern World, 11)

Sagas, Saints and Settlements (The Northern World, 11)

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Book Description
This volume includes selected papers from an interdisciplinary symposium in Norse Studies held at the University of St Andrews. The symposium brought together scholars with a shared interest in medieval Scandinavian history and culture, especially the sagas, from a variety of disciplines, and this diversity is reflected in the papers published here.

Topics covered include saga genre, with particular focus on encyclopaedic manuscripts and the late Íslendinga sögur respectively, the relationship between saga literature and hagiography, with papers on Hrafns saga Sveinbjarnarsonar and on the textual traditions surrounding St Magnús of Orkney and St Thomas of Canterbury, and various aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland.

The volume shows the variety of approaches which can be taken to the sagas as texts, especially when combined with other historical and literary material.

About the Author
Gareth Williams, Ph.D. (1997) in Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews, is a curator at the British Museum. He has published articles on Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Scottish topics, with particular interests in monetary history, land assessment and military organisation.

Paul Bibire is a Former Lecturer at the Universities of St Andrews and Cambridge, and has published on Old English and Norse.

Sagas, Saints and Settlements (The Northern World, 11),Gareth Williams,Paul Bibire,Brill Academic Publishers,9004138072,Civilization,Congresses,European - German,History,History and criticism,History: World,Interior Design - General,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Medieval,Sagas,Scandinavia

Book Contents:

1. Sangitasiromani: A Medieval Handbook of Indian Music (Brill's Indological Library, Vol 5)
2. Secular and Christian Leadership in Corinth: A Socio-Historical and Exegetical Study of 1 Corinthians 1-6 (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken, 18)
3. Selected Studies in Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha With Special Reference to the Armenian Tradition (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha , No 9)
4. Skepticism and Irreligion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
5. Sociology, Ideology and Utopia: Socio-Political Philosophy of East and West (Philosophy of History and Culture)
6. Soviet Russia and Tibet: The Debarcle of Secret Diplomacy, 1918-1930s (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, 4) (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, V.4)
7. Spinoza on Knowledge and the Human Mind: Papers Presented at the Second Jerusalem Conference (Ethica II)
8. The Buddhist Architecture of Gandhara (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik)
9. The Covenant in Judaism and Paul: A Study of Ritual Boundaries As Identity Markers (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristen, Vol 27)
10. The Cults of Uruk and Babylon: The Temple Ritual Texts As Evidence for Hellenistic Cult Practises (Cuneiform Monographs, 25)

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