Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum
Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum

Author: Grzegorz Bartusik

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-07-26

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1000610381

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Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum is one of the most important accounts documenting the history, geography and ethnology of Northern and Central-Eastern Europe in the period between the ninth and eleventh centuries. Its author, a canon of the archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen, remains an almost anonymous figure but his text is an essential source for the study of the early medieval Baltic. However, despite its undisputed status, past scholarship has tended to treat Adam of Bremen’s account as, on the one hand, an historically accurate document, or, alternatively, a literary artefact containing few, if any, reliable historical facts. The studies collected in this volume investigate the origins and context of the Gesta and will enable researchers to better understand and evaluate the historical veracity of the text.

Medieval Scandinavia
Medieval Scandinavia

Author: Phillip Pulsiano

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 838

ISBN-13: 9780824047870

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With full-page maps and supplementary photos, this encyclopedia covers every aspect of Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art.

The Nitrian Principality: The Beginnings of Medieval Slovakia
The Nitrian Principality: The Beginnings of Medieval Slovakia

Author: Ján Steinhübel

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 678

ISBN-13: 9004438637

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In The Nitrian Principality: The Beginnings of Medieval Slovakia Ján Steinhübel offers an account of the early medieval West Slavic realm which laid the national, territorial and historical foundations of Slovakia.

History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen
History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen

Author: Adam of Bremen

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2002-03-19

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0231500858

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Adam of Bremen's history of the see of Hamburg and of Christian missions in northern Europe from the late eighth to the late eleventh century is the primary source of our knowledge of the history, geography, and ethnography of the Scandinavian and Baltic regions and their peoples before the thirteenth century. Arriving in Bremen in 1066 and soon falling under the tutelage of Archbishop Adalbert, who figures prominently in the narrative, Adam recorded the centuries-long campaign by his church to convert Slavic and Scandinavian peoples. His History vividly reflects the firsthand accounts he received from travelers, traders, and missionaries on the peripheries of medieval Europe.

American/Medieval Goes North
American/Medieval Goes North

Author: Gillian R. Overing

Publisher: V&R Unipress

Published: 2019-10-07

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 3847009524

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"One of the great virtues of American/Medieval Goes North is ist wide range of contributors with fascinatingly diverse relationships to the main terms of analysis. There are academic scholars, poets, filmmakers, tribal elders, teachers at various levels; there are Indigenous people, people from settler colonial cultures, expats, immigrants. Their analytic and imaginative encounters with the North catch at the intensely symbolic and political charge of that locus. At a time when Medieval Studies cannot afford to ignore the period's popular uptake – cannot continue with business as usual in the face of white supremacists' brazen appropriations of the Middle Ages – this volume points to new possibilities for grappling with the uneasy relationships between the 'American' and the 'medieval'." – Prof Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University

The Sea and Medieval English Literature
The Sea and Medieval English Literature

Author: Sebastian I. Sobecki

Publisher: DS Brewer

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9781843841371

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A fresh and invigorating survey of the sea as it appears in medieval English literature, from romance to chronicle, hagiography to autobiography. As the first cultural history of the sea in medieval English literature, this book traces premodern myths of insularity from their Old English beginnings to Shakespeare's Tempest. Beginning with a discussion of biblical, classical and pre-Conquest treatments of the sea, it investigates how such works as the Anglo-Norman Voyage of St Brendan, the Tristan romances, the chronicles of Matthew Paris, King Horn, Patience, The Book of Margery Kempe and The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye shape insular ideologies of Englishness. Whether it is Britain's privileged place in the geography of salvation or the political fiction of the idyllic island fortress, medieval English writers' myths of the sea betray their anxieties about their own insular identity; their texts call on maritime motifs to define England geographically and culturally against the presence of the sea. New insights from a range of fields, including jurisprudence, theology, the history of cartography and anthropology, are used to provide fresh readings of a wide range of both insular and continental writings.

Medieval Latin Palaeography
Medieval Latin Palaeography

Author: Leonard E. Boyle

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1984-01-01

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780802065582

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A comprehensive bibliography of medievel palaeontology for a student's use.

The Medieval Chronicle V
The Medieval Chronicle V

Author: Erik Kooper

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 9042023546

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There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions.The yearbook The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds. The Medieval Chronicle is published in cooperation with the Medieval Chronicle Society.

The Empire of Cnut the Great
The Empire of Cnut the Great

Author: Timothy Bolton

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 900416670X

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Drawing on a wide range of types of evidence this book offers a fresh impression of the a ~empirea (TM) built by King Cnut (1016a "1035) in England and Scandinavia, and offers insights into contemporary developments in the conceptions of this new dominion.