Medieval Slavic Lives of Saints and Princes
Author: Marvin Kantor
Publisher: University of Michigan Department of Slavic Lang Ures
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13:
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Sagas, Saints and Settlements
Author: Gareth Williams
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004-05-01
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9047405188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains seven papers relating to Norse history and literature. Two cover issues of saga genre, two explore the relationship between sagas and medieval hagiography, and three consider aspects of the Norse settlement in Scotland from an interdisciplinary perspective. With contributions by Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir, Phil Cardew, Haki Antonsson, Gareth Williams, Barbara Crawford and Simon Taylor.
Inventing Slavonic
Author: Mirela Ivanova
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-01-13
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0198891563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew alphabets in the world are actively celebrated, and none more so than the Slavonic. Annually across Eastern Europe, the alphabet and its inventors, Cyril and Methodios, are celebrated with parades, concerts, liturgical services, and public addresses by presidents, ministers, and mayors. Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing Between Rome and Constantinople offers a new reading of the invention of the Slavonic alphabet and its implications. Its premise is simple: namely, that the alphabet was not invented once, but that it continued to be contested and redefined in the century after its creation. However, Inventing Slavonic goes against the grain of modern scholarship and popular common sense, where a stable and fossilized story about Cyril, his brother and companion Methodios, and the alphabet still persists. Mirela Ivanova shows that this well-known story is, in fact, a Frankenstein's monster, bolted together from texts which originally attributed quite different and often conflicting meanings to the elements which make up this supposedly unified narrative. In this narrative's place, the book offers a series of new readings of our earliest sources for the alphabet's appearance. In doing so, it constructs a new social history of the early script's fragility, and the ways in which its existence was conditioned by changes in socio-political life between Rome and Constantinople.
On Medieval and Renaissance Slavic Writing
Author: Henrik Birnbaum
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2014-10-08
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 3110885913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSt. Magnús of Orkney
Author: Haki Antonsson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9004155805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the emergence of the cult of St Magnus, earl of Orkney (d. 1117), and the literary corpus composed in his honour. Both aspects are examined from a wider Scandinavian and European perspective.
Medieval Translatio
Author: Massimiliano Bampi, Stefanie Gropper
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-05-23
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 3111218864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBelief and Culture in the Middle Ages
Author: Richard Gameson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2001-04-12
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0191543039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre there angels within spitting distance of men? What did Pope Gregory the Great think of pagans? Were the monks of Battle compulsive forgers? Is temptation always a bad thing? These and many other fascinating questions are explored in this book. Commisssioned in honour of the distinguished medieval historian, Henry Mayr-Harting and reflecting the range and focus of its honorand's interests, the twenty-five essays provide a panoramic and stimulating exploration of the interrelated fields of belief and culture in the middle ages. Sanctity and sacred biography, seduction and temptation, forgery and litigation, patronage and art production, conversion and oppression were all part of the rich fabric of medieval Christian culture that is scrutinized here. Individually the studies shed new light on a series of key issues and questions relating to the cultural, religious, and political history of the sixth-century church, of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, and of Carolingian, Ottonian, and Investiture Contest Europe; while collectively they illuminate the interaction of Christianity and politics, of secular and sacred, and of belief and culture from late antiquity to the thirteenth century.
Becoming Byzantine
Author: Αριέττα Παπακωνσταντίνου
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780884023562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBecoming Byzantine: Children and Childhood in Byzantium presents detailed information about children's lives, and provides a basis for further study. This collection of eight articles covers matters relevant to daily life such as the definition of children in Byzantine law, procreation, death, breastfeeding patterns, and material culture.
Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c.950–1300
Author: Simon Franklin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-08-29
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1139434543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a thorough survey and analysis of the emergence and functions of written culture in Rus (covering roughly the modern East Slav lands of European Russia, Ukraine and Belarus). Part I introduces the full range of types of writing: the scripts and languages, the materials, the social and physical contexts, ranging from builders' scratches on bricks through to luxurious parchment manuscripts. Part II presents a series of thematic studies of the 'socio-cultural dynamics' of writing, in order to reveal and explain distinctive features in the Rus assimilation of the technology. The comparative approach means that the book may also serve as a case-study for those with a broader interest either in medieval uses of writing or in the social and cultural history of information technologies. Overall, the impressive scholarship and idiosyncratic wit of this volume commend it to students and specialists in Russian history and literature alike. Awarded the Alec Nove Prize, given by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies for the best book of 2002 in Russian, Soviet or Post-Soviet studies.
