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The Meaning of Media
The book highlights aspects of mediality and materiality in the dissemination and distribution of texts in the Scandinavian Middle Ages important for achieving a general understanding of the emerging literate culture. In nine chapters various types of texts represented in different media and in a range of materials are treated. The topics include two chapters on epigraphy, on lead amulets and stone monuments inscribed with runes and Roman letters. In four chapters aspects of the manuscript culture is discussed, the role of authorship and of the dissemination of Christian topics in translations. The appropriation of a Latin book culture in the vernaculars is treated as well as the adminstrative use of writing in charters. In the two final chapters topics related to the emerging print culture in early post-medieval manuscripts and prints are discussed with a focus on reception. The range of topics will make the book relevant for scholars from all fields of medieval research as well as those interested in mediality and materiality in general.
Tracing the Indo-Europeans
Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehistoric Europe underwent two successive waves of migration, one from Anatolia consistent with the introduction of agriculture, and a later influx from the Pontic-Caspian steppes which without any reasonable doubt pinpoints the archaeological Yamnaya complex as the cradle of (Core-)Indo-European languages. Now, for the first time, when the preliminaries are clear, it is possible for the fields of ge...
Urban Literacy in the Nordic Middle Ages
This volume explores literacy in the medieval towns of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and aims to understand the extent to which these medieval urban centres constituted a driving force in the development of literacy in Nordic societies generally. As in other parts of Europe, two languages--Latin and the vernacular--were in use. However, the Nordic area is also characterised by its use of the runic alphabet, and thus two writing systems were also in use. Another characteristic of the North is its comparatively weak urbanization, especially in Finland, Sweden, and Norway. Literacy and the uses of writing in medieval towns of the North is approached from various angles of research, including history, archaeology, philology, and runology. The contributions cover topics related to urban literacy that include both case studies and general surveys of the dissemination of writing, all from a Northern perspective. The thematic chapters all present new sources and approaches that offer a new dimension both to the study of medieval urban literacy and also to Scandinavian studies.
Land og by på tværs 1000-1800
Middelalderhistorikeren Bjørn Poulsen har gennem fire årtier været blandt de mest produktive danske historikere. Et af de mange forskningsområder, hvor han har været med til at sætte dagsordenen, er studiet af forholdet mellem land og by. De to områder har traditionelt været meget opdelt – med en klar arbejdsdeling mellem for eksempel landbrugs- og byhistorikerne. I dette festskrift viser en række historikere, hvordan studiet af land og by med fokus på forbindelser og lighedstræk kan være mere frugtbart end at insistere på forskelle og særtræk. Tilsammen tegner bogens bidrag et billede af land- og bysamfundene i tiden 1000-1800, som er langt mere sammenhængende end hidtil antaget.
Socio-onomastics
The volume seeks to establish socio-onomastics as a field of linguistic inquiry not only within sociolinguistics, but also, and in particular, within pragmatics. The linguistic study of names has a very long history, but also a history sometimes fraught with skepticism, and thus often neglected by linguists in other fields. The volume takes on the challenge of instituting onomastic study into linguistics and pragmatics by focusing on recent trends within socio-onomastics, interactional onomastics, contact onomastics, folk onomastics, and linguistic landscape studies. The volume is an introduction to these fields – with the introductory chapter giving an overview of, and an update on, recent onomastic study – and in addition offers detailed in-depth analyses of place names, person names, street names and commercial names from different perspectives: historically, as well as from the point of view of the impact of globalization and glocalization. All the chapters focus on the use and function of names and naming, on changes in name usage, and on the reasons for, processes in, and results of names in contact.
Viking Sırları
Çoğunlukla vahşi ve barbar olarak nitelendirilen Vikingler, onlar hakkında yapılan pek çok çalışmaya rağmen hâlen gizemler barındırmaktadır. Bu kitap, Vikingler hakkındaki ön kabulleri incelemekle kalmamakta, arka planda kalmış yaşantılarını analiz ederek gün yüzüne çıkarmayı da hedeflemektedir. Kocaman gemileriyle denizden gelen bir tehdit olarak Orta Çağ Avrupası’nı korkulardan korkulara sürükleyen Vikingler; “barbar ve canavar” imajlı ön yargıların aksine âşık olabilen, ticaret ve seyyahlık yapabilen, sevdiklerine şiirler yazıp inançları hakkında ritüeller gerçekleştirebilen bir toplumdur. Dahası yüzyıllar önce rünlere kazınmış özgün anlatıları günümüzde hâlen çizgi romanlar, yüksek bütçeli film ve diziler ile karşılık bulmaya devam etmektedir. Ticaretten hukuka, şiirden antropolojik ritüellere uzanan farklı bağlamlarda Viking sırlarının ele alındığı bu kitap ile Viking yaşamına ait bambaşka bir anlayışa yelken açılmaktadır.
Danske byer i middelalderen
Middelalderen er en af de vigtigste perioder i dansk byhistorie. Her blev de forste danske byer grundlagt, og mange af dem er i dag landets storste. Og selvom byerne og bylivet i dag er et helt andet urbant netvAerk end dengang, gar vi stadig fra centrum ad de samme gadenet forbi middelalderens store monumenter, dens kirker og klostre.I Danmarks byer i middelalderen tager forfatterne lAeseren med pa en historisk byvandring gennem danske byer fra ar 700 frem til reformationen. Her fortAeller de om de nyeste forskningsresultater, sa vi andre ikke gar vild i byen.
