Historical dictionary of Iceland / / Sverrir Jakobsson and Gudmundur Halfdanarson |
Autore | Sverrir Jakobsson <1970-> |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (343 p.) |
Disciplina | 949.12003 |
Collana | Historical Dictionaries of Europe |
ISBN | 1-4422-6291-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Reader's Note; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chronology; Map; Introduction; THE DICTIONARY; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Þ; Bibliography; About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798200103321 |
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Historical dictionary of Iceland / / Sverrir Jakobsson and Gudmundur Halfdanarson |
Autore | Sverrir Jakobsson <1970-> |
Edizione | [3rd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (343 p.) |
Disciplina | 949.12003 |
Collana | Historical Dictionaries of Europe |
ISBN | 1-4422-6291-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Reader's Note; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chronology; Map; Introduction; THE DICTIONARY; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Þ; Bibliography; About the Authors |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823492803321 |
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Images of the North [[electronic resource] ] : histories, identities, ideas / / edited by Sverrir Jakobsson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 306 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Sverrir Jakobsson <1970-> |
Collana | Studia imagologica |
Soggetto topico | National characteristics - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-59415-X
9786612594151 90-420-2906-4 1-4416-0660-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword / Joep Leerssen -- Images of the North: Address by the President of Iceland / Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson -- The Theory of Climate and the North in Anglophone Literatures / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz -- Canada and its Images of North / Sherrill Grace -- Food and the North-Icelandic Identity in 13th century Iceland and Norway / Ármann Jakobsson -- People and Place in the Far North: A Vision of Life, Community and Change / W. Tad Pfeffer -- Of Whales and Men: Images of Iceland and the North Atlantic in Contemporary Whaling Politics / Karen Oslund -- Images of Thule: Maps and Metaphors in Polar Exploration / Kirsten Hastrup -- Geared for the Sublime: Mobile Images of the North / Edward H. Huijbens and Karl Benediktsson -- From Hell to Homeland: Eggert Ólafsson’s Reise igiennem Island and the Construction of Icelandic Identity / Karin Schaer -- The Natural Resource Industry Visual Impact Paradox: A Perspective on Alaskan Imagery and Art / Annie Duffy -- Icelandic National Images in the 19th and 20th Centuries / Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson -- Images of the North from a Distance / Diana Petkova -- Inuit Symbols and Canadian Nationhood in the Imagined North / Christopher M. Fletcher -- Alaska’s Eternal Frontier: Rural Masculinity and Landscape Nostalgia / Timothy Pursell and Maureen P. Hogan -- Cultivating Culture? Images of Iceland, Globalization and Multicultural Society / Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir and Kristín Loftsdóttir -- The Use of Images in Aniconic Societies: Occultism, Protestantism and Imagination in Iceland / Christophe Pons -- Performances of Scale: Visual Culture and Site-Specific Art in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Era / Lisa Ann Favero -- The Wild Wild North: The Narrative Cultures of Image Construction in Media and Everyday Life / Kristinn Schram -- Welcome to Anaktuvuk Pass! / Sarah S. McConnell and Debbie Mekiana Toopetlook -- Remote, Rough and Romantic: Contemporary Images of Iceland in Visual, Oral and Textual Narrations / Katla Kjartansdóttir -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454351803321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 | ||
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Images of the North [[electronic resource] ] : histories, identities, ideas / / edited by Sverrir Jakobsson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 306 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Sverrir Jakobsson <1970-> |
Collana | Studia imagologica |
Soggetto topico | National characteristics - History |
ISBN |
1-282-59415-X
9786612594151 90-420-2906-4 1-4416-0660-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword / Joep Leerssen -- Images of the North: Address by the President of Iceland / Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson -- The Theory of Climate and the North in Anglophone Literatures / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz -- Canada and its Images of North / Sherrill Grace -- Food and the North-Icelandic Identity in 13th century Iceland and Norway / Ármann Jakobsson -- People and Place in the Far North: A Vision of Life, Community and Change / W. Tad Pfeffer -- Of Whales and Men: Images of Iceland and the North Atlantic in Contemporary Whaling Politics / Karen Oslund -- Images of Thule: Maps and Metaphors in Polar Exploration / Kirsten Hastrup -- Geared for the Sublime: Mobile Images of the North / Edward H. Huijbens and Karl Benediktsson -- From Hell to Homeland: Eggert Ólafsson’s Reise igiennem Island and the Construction of Icelandic Identity / Karin Schaer -- The Natural Resource Industry Visual Impact Paradox: A Perspective on Alaskan Imagery and Art / Annie Duffy -- Icelandic National Images in the 19th and 20th Centuries / Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson -- Images of the North from a Distance / Diana Petkova -- Inuit Symbols and Canadian Nationhood in the Imagined North / Christopher M. Fletcher -- Alaska’s Eternal Frontier: Rural Masculinity and Landscape Nostalgia / Timothy Pursell and Maureen P. Hogan -- Cultivating Culture? Images of Iceland, Globalization and Multicultural Society / Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir and Kristín Loftsdóttir -- The Use of Images in Aniconic Societies: Occultism, Protestantism and Imagination in Iceland / Christophe Pons -- Performances of Scale: Visual Culture and Site-Specific Art in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Era / Lisa Ann Favero -- The Wild Wild North: The Narrative Cultures of Image Construction in Media and Everyday Life / Kristinn Schram -- Welcome to Anaktuvuk Pass! / Sarah S. McConnell and Debbie Mekiana Toopetlook -- Remote, Rough and Romantic: Contemporary Images of Iceland in Visual, Oral and Textual Narrations / Katla Kjartansdóttir -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777705803321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 | ||
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Images of the North : histories, identities, ideas / / edited by Sverrir Jakobsson |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (293 p.) |
Disciplina | 306 |
Altri autori (Persone) | Sverrir Jakobsson <1970-> |
Collana | Studia imagologica |
Soggetto topico | National characteristics - History |
ISBN |
1-282-59415-X
9786612594151 90-420-2906-4 1-4416-0660-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword / Joep Leerssen -- Images of the North: Address by the President of Iceland / Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson -- The Theory of Climate and the North in Anglophone Literatures / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz -- Canada and its Images of North / Sherrill Grace -- Food and the North-Icelandic Identity in 13th century Iceland and Norway / Ármann Jakobsson -- People and Place in the Far North: A Vision of Life, Community and Change / W. Tad Pfeffer -- Of Whales and Men: Images of Iceland and the North Atlantic in Contemporary Whaling Politics / Karen Oslund -- Images of Thule: Maps and Metaphors in Polar Exploration / Kirsten Hastrup -- Geared for the Sublime: Mobile Images of the North / Edward H. Huijbens and Karl Benediktsson -- From Hell to Homeland: Eggert Ólafsson’s Reise igiennem Island and the Construction of Icelandic Identity / Karin Schaer -- The Natural Resource Industry Visual Impact Paradox: A Perspective on Alaskan Imagery and Art / Annie Duffy -- Icelandic National Images in the 19th and 20th Centuries / Sumarliði R. Ísleifsson -- Images of the North from a Distance / Diana Petkova -- Inuit Symbols and Canadian Nationhood in the Imagined North / Christopher M. Fletcher -- Alaska’s Eternal Frontier: Rural Masculinity and Landscape Nostalgia / Timothy Pursell and Maureen P. Hogan -- Cultivating Culture? Images of Iceland, Globalization and Multicultural Society / Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir and Kristín Loftsdóttir -- The Use of Images in Aniconic Societies: Occultism, Protestantism and Imagination in Iceland / Christophe Pons -- Performances of Scale: Visual Culture and Site-Specific Art in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Era / Lisa Ann Favero -- The Wild Wild North: The Narrative Cultures of Image Construction in Media and Everyday Life / Kristinn Schram -- Welcome to Anaktuvuk Pass! / Sarah S. McConnell and Debbie Mekiana Toopetlook -- Remote, Rough and Romantic: Contemporary Images of Iceland in Visual, Oral and Textual Narrations / Katla Kjartansdóttir -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813824703321 |
Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2009 | ||
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The Routledge research companion to the medieval Icelandic sagas / / edited by ármann Jakobsson and Sverrir Jakobsson |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (377 pages) |
Disciplina | 839/.63009 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ármann Jakobsson <1970->
Sverrir Jakobsson <1970-> |
Soggetto topico | Sagas - History and criticism |
ISBN |
0-367-13365-2
1-315-61362-X 1-317-04146-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Genre / Massimiliano Bampi -- 2. Dating and origins / Chris Callow -- 3. Literacy / Pernille Hermann -- 4. Ecclesiastical literature and hagiography / Jonas Wellendorf -- 5. Courtly literature / Stefka G. Eriksen -- 6. Indigenous and Latin literature / Annette Lassen -- 7. History and fiction / Ralph O'Connor -- 8. Style / Daniel Sävborg-- 9. Structure / ármann Jakobsson -- 10. Drama and performativity / Lena Rohrbach -- 11. The long and the short of it / Elizabeth Ashman Rowe -- 12. Narratives and documents / Patricia Pires Boulhosa -- 13. Space / Sverrir Jakobsson -- 14. Time / Carl Phelpstead -- 15. Fate / Stefanie Gropper -- 16. Travel / Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough -- 17. Heroism / Viºar Pálsson -- 18. Gender / Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir -- 19. Emotions / Christopher Crocker -- 20. Marginality / Bjørn Bandlien-- 21. The paranormal / Miriam Mayburd -- 22. Christian themes / Haki Antonsson -- 23. Feud / Santiago Barreiro -- 24. Class / Hans Jacob Orning -- 25. World view / Sirpa Aalto -- 26. Artistic reception / Julia Zernack -- 27. Digital Norse / Jan Alexander Van Nahl. |
Altri titoli varianti | Research companion to the medieval Icelandic sagas |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910164874103321 |
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017 | ||
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The Varangians : in God's holy fire / / Sverrir Jakobsson |
Autore | Sverrir Jakobsson <1970-> |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVIII, 212 p. 10 illus.) |
Disciplina | 948.01 |
Collana | New approaches to Byzantine history and culture |
Soggetto topico | Varangians - History |
ISBN | 3-030-53797-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Incursion -- 2. Attack -- 3. Accommodation -- 4. Engagement -- 5. Adaptation -- 6. Adventurer -- Intermission: History becomes Legend -- 7. Armed Pilgrims -- 8. Mercenaries -- 9. Varangians in Cultural Memory -- 10. Missionaries -- 11. The Emperor in the Holy City -- 12. The End of the Line -- Conclusion: The Cultural Significance of the Varangians. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910427041103321 |
Sverrir Jakobsson <1970->
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Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2020] | ||
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