1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782983103321

Autore

Dregni Eric <1968->

Titolo

In cod we trust : living the Norwegian dream / / Eric Dregni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

0-8166-6637-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 pages) : map

Disciplina

914.81045

Soggetti

National characteristics, Norwegian

Norway Social life and customs 20th century

Norway Description and travel

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; A Cambridge Education; From Colony to Homeland; A Beautiful Day in Hell; "Screw Yourself" at IKEA; Janteloven; The Chest; Munch Is Dårlig; Aliens; Living the Norwegian Dream; Porridge Night; Norsk Course; A to Å; Cabin Culture; A True Norwegian; Paul Bunyan's Blacksmith?; "Take Everything for Good Fish"; A Free Upbringing; Columbus Was Norwegian; On the Meat Bus; Bargain Babies; Earth Mothers at the Sick House; The Name of the Devil; Mørketid: The Dark Time; Tran!; Rakfisk: Riskier Than Lutefisk; Juletid; Fish in Lye; Born Wearing Skis; "The World's Most Beautiful Voyage"

Snowbound in Bodø; The Knitting Hall of Fame; Døping the Baby; In Cod We Trust; Syttende Mai: Constitution Day; You Can't Eat Beauty; Acknowledgments; Snakker Du Norsk?

Sommario/riassunto

Eric Dregni's great-grandfather Ellef fled Norway in 1893 when it was the poorest country in Europe. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson traveled back to find that-mostly due to oil and natural gas discoveries-it is now the richest. The circumstances of his return were serendipitous, as the notice that Dregni won a Fulbright Fellowship to go there arrived the same week as the knowledge that his wife Katy was pregnant. Braving a birth abroad and benefiting from a remarkably generous health care system, the Dregnis' family came full circle when their son Eilif was born in Norwa



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780693503321

Titolo

Early modern Catholicism : essays in honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J. / / edited by Kathleen M. Comerford and Hilmar M. Pabel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-282-01453-6

9786612014536

1-4426-7420-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (359 p.)

Disciplina

282/.09/03

Soggetti

RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic

Festschriften

History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Westervelt, Benjamin W. -- A Bibliography of John W. O'Malley's Scholarshipp -- The Last Two Councils of the Catholic Reformation: The Influence of Lateran V on Trent / Minnich, Nelson H. -- Humanism and Early Modern Catholicism: Erasmus of Rotterdam's Ars Moriendi / Pabel, Hilmar M. -- The Papacy in the Age of Reform, 1513-1644 / Hudon, William V. -- The Episcopacy in Sixteenth-Century Italy / Cesareo, Francesco C. -- Calvin and Borromeo: A Comparative Approach to Social Discipline / De Boer, Wietse -- Overcoming Gender Limitations: The Daughters of Charity and Early Modern Catholicism / Dinan, Susan E. -- 'Popular Catholicism' and the Catholic Reformation / Luria, Keith P. -- Confessionalization and Polemic: Catholics and Anabaptists in Moravia / Grieser, D. Jonathan -- Sub Jugo Haereticorum: Minority Catholicism in Early Modern Europe / Kooi, Christine -- Ignatius, Confratello: Confraternities as Modes of Spiritual Community in Early Modern Society / Terpstra, Nicholas --



Seeing the Place: The Virgin Mary in a Chinese Lady's Inner Chamber / Lin, Xiaoping -- The Jesuits and the Non-Spanish Contribution to South American Colonial Architecture / Bailey, Gauvin Alexander -- Clerical Education, Catechesis, and Catholic Confessionalism: Teaching Religion in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Comerford, Kathleen M. -- Some Unusual Genres of Sacred Music in the Early Modern Period: The Catechism as a Musical Event in the Late Renaissance - Jesuits and 'Our Way of Proceeding' / Kennedy, T. Frank -- Recovering the Apostolic Way of Life: The New Clerks Regular of the Sixteenth Century / Lewis, Mark A. -- 'Showing the Inventions of God': Preaching and Ritual on Holy Thursday at the Court of Pope Paul V / Norman, Corrie E. -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The so-called Counter- or Catholic Reformation has traditionally been viewed as a monolith, but these essays decisively challenge this interpretation, emphasizing the variety, vitality, and complexity of Catholicism in the early modern era.