| Description |
1 online resource (347 pages) |
| Series |
The Northern World ; volume 91 |
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Northern world ; 91.
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| Contents |
Part 1 Educational and Cultural Context -- Chapter 1 Canon, Dominican and Brother: The Life and Times of Jón Halldórsson in Bergen -- Chapter 2 Bishop Jón Halldórsson and Clerical Culture in 14th-Century Iceland; Part 2 Dominican Exempla and Saga Literature -- Chapter 3 Bishop Jón Halldórsson and 14th-Century Innovations in Saga Narrative: The Case of Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana -- Chapter 4 Holy Ministry in Old Norse ævintýri -- Chapter 5 Clári saga and Its Continental Siblings: A Comparative Literary Approach to an Old Problem; Part 3 Manuscripts and Illuminations -- Chapter 6 Jón Halldórsson and Law Manuscripts of Western Iceland c. 1320-40 -- Chapter 7 am 657 a-b 4° and the Mouvance of Medieval Texts: Roles and Functions in the Transmission of Texts in a Manuscript Culture; Part 4 Music and Liturgy -- Chapter 8 Liturgical Change and Liturgical Plurality in the Province of Nidaros: New Light on the Ordo Nidrosiensis Ecclesiae -- Chapter 9 Some Reflections on the Liturgy for St Þorlákr; Part 5 Manuscript Practice and Multiple Careers -- Chapter 10 Elucidating Charter Practice and Administrative Literacy in Four Works by Einarr Hafliðason -- Chapter 11 Music and Manuscripts in Skálholt and Þingeyrar |
| Summary |
This book explores the life and times of Jón Halldórsson, bishop of Skálholt (1322-39), a Dominican who had studied the liberal arts and canon law in Paris and Bologna. An innovator in legendary sagas, the book examines his life, context and legacy from the perspectives of literary history, clerical culture, administrative literacy, liturgy, and manuscript studies, in order to provide a general view of the conditions under which literate culture thrived in 14th-century Scandinavia. It contains chapters treating Halldórsson's learning and writing, as well as studies of more general aspects of literacy. The combination of various perspectives offers a snapshot with wider implications for our understanding of medieval literacy. Contributors (in order of appearance) are Christian Etheridge, Viðar Pálsson, Gottskálk Jensson, Hjalti Snær Ægisson, Védís Ragnheiðardóttir, Stefan Drechsler, Karl G. Johansson, Astrid Marner, Gisela Attinger, Embla Aae, and Gunnar Harðarson |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2021) |
| Subject |
Jón Halldórsson, Bishop of Skálholt, 1275-1339 -- Knowledge and learning
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Dominicans -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Dominicans fast |
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Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Intellectual life
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Learning and scholarship
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Learning and scholarship -- Medieval
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| SUBJECT |
Iceland -- Intellectual life
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| Subject |
Iceland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gunnar Á. Harðarson.
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Johansson, Karl G., 1959- editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004465510 |
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9004465510 |
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