Kings' sagas and Norwegian history [[electronic resource] ] : problems and perspectives / / by Shami Ghosh
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| Autore: |
Ghosh Shami
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| Titolo: |
Kings' sagas and Norwegian history [[electronic resource] ] : problems and perspectives / / by Shami Ghosh
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| Pubblicazione: | Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 948.1/01072 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sagas - History and criticism |
| Old Norse literature - History and criticism | |
| Kings and rulers in literature | |
| Literature and history - Norway | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Norway Historiography |
| Norway History To 1030 Sources | |
| Norway History 1030-1397 Sources | |
| Norway Kings and rulers | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preliminary Material -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Skaldic Verse and Saga Prose: Transmission and Reliability -- 3. Non-Native Sources and Influence -- 4. The Uses of the Past -- Chronology -- Bibliography -- Concordance of Cited Passages from the 1932 and 2011 Editions of Morkinskinna -- Index of Modern Scholars Cited -- General Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book is an examination of some of the principal issues arising from the study of the kings’ sagas, the main narrative sources for Norwegian history before c. 1200. Providing an overview of the past two decades of scholarship, it discusses the vexed relationship between verse and prose and the reliability as historical sources of the verse alone or the combination of verse and prose; the possibility and extent of non-native influence on the composition of these texts; and the function of the past, in particular given that most of the historiography of Norway was produced in Iceland. This book aims to stimulate studies of medieval Scandinavian historiography with its critical perspective on the texts and the scholarship, while also providing a useful work of reference in order to make this area of research accessible to scholars in cognate fields. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Kings' sagas and Norwegian history |
| ISBN: | 1-283-28078-7 |
| 9786613280787 | |
| 90-04-21047-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807441303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Northern world ; ; v. 54.