Saints and their legacies in medieval Iceland. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kirsten Wolf, Dario Bullitta.
• Editors: Wolf, Kirsten, 1959-; Bullitta, Dario
• Contents: List of Illustrations ; Notes on Contributors ; Acknowledgements ; List of Abbreviations ; ; 1 Introduction: The Splendor of the Saints; DARIO BULLITTA; Rannsǫkun heilagra bóka : The Search for Holy Books ; 2 Medieval Icelandic Hagiography: The State of the Art; KIRSTEN WOLF; 3 An Old Norse Adaptation of an All Saints Sermon by Maurice de Sully; STEPHEN PELLE; 4 The Tuscan Provenance of Framfǫr Maríu ; DARIO BULLITTA; Heilagir byskupar : Holy Bishops ; 5 Latin Oratory at the Edge of the World: The Fragments of Gizurr Hallsson's *Gesta Scalotensis ecclesie presulum and the *Vita sancti Thorlaci ; GOTTSKÁLK JENSSON; 6 Three Scenes from Jóns saga helga : A Typological Mode of Thought in Early Icelandic Hagiography; HAKI ANTONSSON; 7 Lárentíus saga byskups : Between History and Historiography; FULVIO FERRARI; 8 Remembering Saints and Bishops in Medieval Iceland; ÁSDÍS EGILSDÓTTIR; Heilagir karlar ok englar : Holy Men and Angels ; 9 Þat vóro lavg munka : A Reading of Benedikts saga in Light of the Regula sancti Benedicti ; MAURO CAMIZ; 10 The Lore of St Dominic in Medieval Iceland and Norway; SIMONETTA BATTISTA; 11 The Veneration of St Michael in Medieval Iceland; MARGARET CORMACK; Heilagar meyjar : Holy Maidens ; 12 Katrínarhólar: St Catherine's Hills, Milk, and Mount Sinai; HELGI ÞORLÁKSSON; 13 St Agnes of Rome in Late Medieval and Early Modern Icelandic Verse; NATALIE M. VAN DEUSEN; ; Bibliography ; Index of Manuscripts ; General Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Plumbago Books
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, maps
• Subjects: 839.609; Old Norse literature -- History and criticism; Saints in literature
• Languages: non
• ISBNs: 9781800101999
• Related ISBNs: 9781843846116
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