St. Magnus Cathedral and Orkney's Twelfth-century Renaissance
Author: B. E. Crawford
Publisher: Mercat Press Books
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 320
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Author: B. E. Crawford
Publisher: Mercat Press Books
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jennifer Nicole Grayburn
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Published: 2011
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R.N. Swanson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1999-09-11
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780719042560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume surveys the wide range of cultural and intellectual changes in western Europe in the period 1050-1250. The Twelfth-Century Renaissance first establishes the broader context for the changes and introduces the debate on the validity of the term "Renaissance" as a label for the period. Summarizing current scholarship, without imposing a particular interpretation of the issues, the book provides an accessible introduction to a vibrant and vital period in Europe’s cultural and intellectual history.
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.
Author: Gro Steinsland
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-04-21
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9004205063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the Nordic pre-Christian ideology of rulership, and its confrontation with, survival into and adaptation to the European Christian ideals during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages from the ninth to the thirteenth century.
Author: John Blair
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2005-01-20
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 0191518832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the impact of the first monasteries in the seventh century, to the emergence of the local parochial system five hundred years later, the Church was a force for change in Anglo-Saxon society. It shaped culture and ideas, social and economic behaviour, and the organization of landscape and settlement. This book traces how the widespread foundation of monastic sites ('minsters') during c.670-730 gave the recently pagan English new ways of living, of exploiting their resources, and of absorbing European culture, as well as opening new spiritual and intellectual horizons. Through the era of Viking wars, and the tenth-century reconstruction of political and economic life, the minsters gradually lost their wealth, their independence, and their role as sites of high culture, but grew in stature as foci of local society and eventually towns. After 950, with the increasing prominence of manors, manor-houses, and village communities, a new and much larger category of small churches were founded, endowed, and rebuilt: the parish churches of the emergent eleventh- and twelfth-century local parochial system. In this innovative study, John Blair brings together written, topographical, and archaeological evidence to build a multi-dimensional picture of what local churches and local communities meant to each other in early England.
Author: Edward J Cowan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2011-06-06
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0748688609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600.
Author: Bjørn Poulsen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-27
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 0429557280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first in a series of three, examines the social elites in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, and which social, political, and cultural resources went into their creation. The elite controlled enormous economic resources and exercised power over people. Power over agrarian production was essential to the elites during this period, although mobile capital was becoming increasingly important. The book focuses on the material resources of the elites, through questions such as: Which types of resources were at play? How did the elites acquire and exchange resources?
Author: C. Keene
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-19
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1137035641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMargaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-07-25
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 900452066X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains work by scholars actively publishing on origin legends across early medieval western Europe, from the fall of Rome to the high Middle Ages. Its thematic structure creates dialogue between texts and regions traditionally studied in isolation.