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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812064603321

Titolo

Denmark and Europe in the Middle Ages, c.1000-1525 : essays in honour of Professor Michael H. Gelting / / edited by Kerstin Hundahl, Lars Kjær and Niels Lund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, Surrey, [England] ; ; Burlington, [Vermont] : , : Ashgate Publishing Group, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-315-57653-8

1-317-15274-3

1-317-15273-5

1-4724-1751-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Disciplina

948.9/02

Soggetti

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Law - Denmark - History

Denmark History 1241-1660

Denmark History To 1241

Europe History 476-1492

Denmark Civilization

Scandinavia History To 1397

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: Religious Culture; 2 The Settlement of Disputes by Compromise According to Some Early Danish Charters; 3  Byzantinizing Crucifixes in Central Medieval Denmark: How, When and Why; 4 Motherhood as Emotion and Social Practice: Mary and Anne as Maternal Models in Medieval Iceland; 5 The Black Friars and the Black Death; Part II: Intellectual Culture; 6 Contacts between Denmark and Flanders in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

7 Banking on - and with - the Victorines: The Strange Case of Archbishop Eskil's Lost Deposit 8 The Transformation of the Danish Language in the Central Middles Ages:A Case of Europeanization?; 9



Two Journeys and One University; Part III: Legal Culture; 10 The Church Law of Scania on the Consecration of Churches and the Appointment of Parish Priests; 11 Dating the Laws of Medieval Denmark: Studies of the Manuscripts of the Danish Church Laws; 12 Regional or Central? Legislation and Law in Thirteenth-Century Denmark; 13  Border Warfare between King and Pope in Late Medieval Denmark

Part IV: Aristocratic and Court Culture14 Apocalypse Then? The First Crusade, Traumas of War and Thomas de Marle; 15 Runes, Knives and Vikings; 16 Placing Blame and Creating Legitimacy: The Implications of Rügish Involvement; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Medieval Denmark and Scandinavia have often been seen as cultural backwaters that passively and belatedly received cultural and political impulses from Western Europe. However, Professor Michael H. Gelting and scholars inspired by him have shown that the intellectual, religious and political elite of Denmark actively participated in the renaissance and reformation of the medieval period. This anthology brings the latest research in Danish medieval history to a wider audience and integrates it with contemporary international discussions of the making of the European Middle Ages.