| Description |
1 online resource (319 p.) |
| Series |
Studies in Medieval History and Culture Ser |
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Studies in Medieval History and Culture Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Imperial politics and visions of the North -- 2 Proselytus et advena: reading the opening lines of Adam's prologue in the light of biblical viewpoints on foreigners and converts -- 3 Sven Estridsen as Adam's informant -- 4 St. Olaf and Adam of Bremen's narrative pragmatics -- 5 Ad insulas Baltici. Role and reception of scholia in Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum -- 6 Adam of Bremen and the early (pre- 995) history of Norway |
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7 The eleventh- century Normans of Normandy in the view of Adam of Bremen -- 8 Religious conversions in Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum and in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum: a comparative approach -- 9 On the influence of Adam's Gesta on Yngvars saga víðfǫrla -- 10 Adam of Bremen and visions of the state in Early Medieval Scandinavia -- a comparative approach to chiefdom, leadership, kingship, segmental tribes -- 11 Ars moriendi and figures of power in Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum |
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12 Female characters and the meaning of history in Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis -- 13 Of Gunnhildrs and Gyðas -- 14 At the edge of time: Adam of Bremen's imaginary North and Horror Vacui -- 15 Scythia and the Scythian Sea on the mental map of Adam of Bremen -- 16 Harald Bluetooth and the Western Slavs: cultural interactions in light of textual and archaeological sources -- 17 The description of the Oder (Odra) estuary in Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum . The oldest accounts of the river until the end of the twelfth century |
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18 Est sane maxima omnium, quas Europa claudit, civitatum. Adam of Bremen and the estimation of size and population of early medieval Wolin -- 19 Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis pontificum as an inspiration for Polish politics of history in Wolin after WW2 -- Geographical Index -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Biskup, Radosław
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Morawiec, Jakub
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| ISBN |
9781000610383 |
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1000610381 |
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