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Property and Virginity
Christianity changed the culture and society of Iceland, as it also did in other parts of Northern Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. One of the important areas of change involved the introduction of new rules on the legal requirements for marriage. Property and Virginity examines Icelandic law codes, marriage contracts, and other documents related to court proceedings. Based on extensive source material never researched before, this pioneer study explores the very gradual Christianization of marriage in Iceland. It shows that this process, which lasted for hundreds of years, had consequences for family and kinship politics, for inheritance and property transfer, and for gen...
Ages of Woman, Ages of Man
The collection is organized around two main principles, stages of life and gender, and is divided into eight chapters: childhood, youth and sexuality, courtship and weddings, married life, economic life, networks and communities, and widowhood and old age. The sources address the numerous and varied ways in which women and men’s notions of themselves affected their lives, and explore how accepted norms of masculine and feminine behaviour influenced social, economic, and religious change. Guided by a general editors' introduction and then an introduction to each chapter, the user will find this an invaluable reference companion to early modern gender history.
A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture
This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culturedemonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language andculture from medieval to modern times. Comprises 29 chapters written by leading scholars in thefield Reflects current debates among Old Norse-Icelandicscholars Pays attention to previously neglected areas of study, such asthe sagas of Icelandic bishops and the fantasy sagas Looks at the ways Old Norse-Icelandic literature is used bymodern writers, artists and film directors, both within and outsideScandinavia Sets Old Norse-Icelandic language and literature in its widercultural context
Konge, kirke og samfund
I middelalderen var ovrighedsmagten i Danmark delt mellem konge og kirke. Kongen sikrede freden, kirken gav ham den nodvendige legitimation og var selv aktiv i landets ledelse. Men konge og kirke var kun de to storste i et spektrum at magthavere, og magt var lokaliseret mange steder i samfundet. Det gAelder isAer i senmiddelalderen, hvor adelen styrkede sin position i forhold til konge og kirke, samtidig med at nye politiske og okonomiske muligheder abnede sig for samfundsgrupper som borgeren og til dels ogsa bonderne, der hidtil havde vAeret uden del i magten. Bogen sAetter fokus pa magten i det danske samfund mellem 1350 og 1550. Den beskriver magt og magtudovelse ud fra sporgsmalet om, hv...
Kon i historien
Kon i historien giver nogle eksempler pa, hvordan lAesning af historisk kildemateriale i et konsperspektiv kan fore den historiske forskning frem til ny viden om fortiden. Bidragyderne drofter konsforhold i henholdsvis oldtidens GrAekenland og middelalderens Vesteuropa og forskellige aspekter af dansk historie i henholdsvis 1700-, 1800- og 1900-tallet. Bogens bidrag inddrager imidlertid ogsa generelle introduktioner til de virkninger, konshistoriske forskningsfelter har haft i den tidligere forskning. Det er ambitionen, at bogen vil kunne bruges som inspiration for historikere, som onsker at benytte sig af kon som analysekategori i historieforskningen.
Adel og adelsleding
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Feud in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
We tend to think of a feud as being a long established state of hostilities, especially between families or clans, which normally manifests itself in revengeful violence. One of the articles in this volume thus states: "What began as a dispute over the property rights of a woman to whom both parties were related quickly mutated into a violent clash between men, in which honour and reputation were at stake -- and from here to a full-blown feud the distance was rather short". However, the studies of feuds presented in this publication leave no doubt that they were very different in different societies. The phenomenon of feud turns out to be intimately connected with developments in society and...
The Christianization of Iceland
In this first historical study of High-Medieval Iceland to be published in English, Dr Vesteinsson investigates the influence of the Christian Church on the formation of the earliest state structures in Iceland, from the conversion in 1000 to the union with Norway in 1262. In the history of mankind states and state structures have usually been established before the advent of written records. As a result historians are rarely able to trace with certainty the early development of complex structures of government. In Iceland, literacy and the practice of native history writing had been established by the beginning of the twelfth century; whereas the formation of a centralised government did not occur until more than a hundred years later. The early development of statelike structures has therefore been unusually well chronicled, in the Icelandic Sagas, and in the historical records of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Based on this wealth of material,The Christianization of Iceland is an important contribution to the discussion on the formation of states.
2007
Die International Bibliographiy of Historical Sciences verzeichnet jährlich die bedeutendsten Neuerscheinungen geschichtswissenschaftlicher Monographien und Zeitschriftenartikel weltweit, die inhaltlich von der Vor- und Frühgeschichte bis zur jüngsten Vergangenheit reichen. Sie ist damit die derzeit einzige laufende Bibliographie dieser Art, die thematisch, zeitlich und geographisch ein derart breites Spektrum abdeckt. Innerhalb der systematischen Gliederung nach Zeitalter, Region oder historischer Disziplin sind die Werke nach Autorennamen oder charakteristischem Titelhauptwort aufgelistet.
