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Author : Jana K. Schulman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jónsbók written by Jana K. Schulman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gunnar Karlsson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816635894
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (358 download)
Download or read book The History of Iceland written by Gunnar Karlsson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland is unique among European societies in having been founded as late as the Viking Age and in having copious written and archaeological sources about its origin. Gunnar Karlsson, that country's premier historian, chronicles the age of the Sagas, consulting them to describe an era without a monarch or central authority. Equating this prosperous time with the golden age of antiquity in world history, Karlsson then marks a correspondence between the Dark Ages of Europe and Iceland's "dreary period", which started with the loss of political independence in the late thirteenth century and culminated with an epoch of poverty and humility, especially during the early Modern Age. Iceland's renaissance came about with the successful struggle for independence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and with the industrial and technical modernization of the first half of the twentieth century. Karlsson describes the rise of nationalism as Iceland's mostly poor peasants set about breaking with Denmark, and he shows how Iceland in the twentieth century slowly caught up economically with its European neighbors.
Author : Agnes Siggerour Arnorsdottir
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8779342051
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (793 download)
Download or read book Property and Virginity written by Agnes Siggerour Arnorsdottir and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2010-05-31 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 gender relations. As canon law began to change the old ritual of betrothal, the virginal state of the woman entering marriage gained greater importance. At the same time, marriage in the Late Middle Ages continued to include many elements of its older understanding as a contract concerning property transfer between families. A new perception of gender relations also arose, whereby women became partners in the actual contract-making. The 'handshake' was now between the husband and wife, instead of between the father of the bride and her future husband. The rituals connected to the different bonds gained new meaning: marriage was no longer a financial matter alone, but also involved religious beliefs and a closer union of the spouses.
Author : Elizabeth Walgenbach
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004461469
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Excommunication and Outlawry in the Legal World of Medieval Iceland written by Elizabeth Walgenbach and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on excommunication, outlawry, and the connections between them in medieval Icelandic legal and literary sources. It argues that outlawry was a punishment shaped by the conventions and structures of excommunication as it developed in canon law.
Author : Philip L. Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462903
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book To Have and to Hold written by Philip L. Reynolds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-05 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2007 book analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages - through property deeds, marital settlements, dotal charters, church court depositions, wedding liturgies, and other indicia of marital consent. The authors consider both the function of documentation in the process of marrying and what the surviving documents say about pre-modern marriage and how people in the day understood it. Drawing on archival evidence from classical Rome, medieval France, England, Iceland, and Ireland, and Renaissance Florence, Douai, and Geneva, the volume provides a rich interdisciplinary analysis of the range of marital customs, laws, and practices in Western Christendom. The chapters include freshly translated specimen documents that bring the reader closer to the actual practice of marrying than the normative literature of pre-modern theology and canon law.
Author : Lester B. Orfield
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584771801
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Growth of Scandinavian Law written by Lester B. Orfield and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study in comparative law that examines the legal systems of Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden and the forces that influenced their development. According to Orfield, the Scandinavian states are a useful area for study as unique examples of law based largely on custom and usage that owe little to Anglo-American or Continental models.
Author : Phillip Pulsiano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824047870
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Medieval Scandinavia written by Phillip Pulsiano and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1993 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With full-page maps and supplementary photos, this encyclopedia covers every aspect of Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art.
Author : Randi Bjørshol Wærdahl
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004206140
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Incorporation and Integration of the King's Tributary Lands into the Norwegian Realm c. 1195-1397 written by Randi Bjørshol Wærdahl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of a Norwegian medieval state had consequences beyond Norway. Inspired by transnational research on state formation, this book presents a comprehensive study of the political incorporation and subsequent judicial and administrative integration of Iceland, the Faroes, Shetland, and Orkney, into the Norwegian realm c. 1195-1397. Building on centuries-old cultural, economic, and political ties, the Norwegian crown established direct royal lordship over the former autonomous and semi-autonomous areas. Judicial unity, administrative development, and the king’s local representatives ensured that the tributary lands were comprised in the state-formation process. Although the political and administrative system allowed for local variation, the process led development in the direction of a unitary state, at least in judicial and administrative terms.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Saga-book of the Viking Club written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phillip Pulsiano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351665014
Total Pages : 791 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Medieval Scandinavia (1993) written by Phillip Pulsiano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art. Written by a team of expert contributors, the encyclopedia offers those who lack command of the various Scandinavian languages a basic tool for the study of Medieval Scandinavia from roughly the Migration Period to the Reformation. With full-page maps, useful supplementary photos, cross-references and a comprehensive index, this work will be a valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas, the Viking age, and Old English history and literature, and for anyone interested in the cultural and historical heritage of Scandinavia.
Author : Gísli Gunnarsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fertility and Nuptiality in Iceland's Demographic History written by Gísli Gunnarsson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004465510
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Dominican Resonances in Medieval Iceland written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and times of Jón Halldórsson, bishop of Skálholt (1322–39), a Dominican who had studied the liberal arts and canon law in Paris and Bologna, and provides a snapshot with wider implications for understanding of medieval literacy.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435581
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nordic Inheritance Law through the Ages – Spaces of Action and Legal Strategies explores the significance of inheritance law from medieval times to the present through topical and in-depth studies that bring life to historical and contemporary inheritance practices. The contributions cover three themes: status of persons and options in the process of property devolution; wills, gift-giving and legal disputes as means to shape the working of the law; processes of inheritance legislation. The authors focus on instances where legal strategies of various actors particularly reveal inheritance law as a contested and yet constrained space of action, and somewhat surprisingly show similar solutions to family law issues dealt with in other Western European countries. Contributors are: Simone Abram, Gitte Meldgaard Abrahamsen, Per Andersen, Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir, John Asland, Knut Dørum, Thomas Eeg, Ian Peter Grohse, Marianne Holdgaard, Astrid Mellem Johnsen, Már Jónsson, Mia Korpiola, Gabriela Bjarne Larsson, Auður Magnúsdóttir, Bodil Selmer, Helle I. M. Sigh, and Miriam Tveit.
Author : Halldór Hermannsson
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Icelandic Manuscripts written by Halldór Hermannsson and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1929 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara María Pons Sanz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 8776741966
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Norse-derived Vocabulary in Late Old English Texts written by Sara María Pons Sanz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Romans believed that the Gods sent signs of future events to them through the flight of birds, meteorological disturbances and other natural phenomena. These signs influenced every sphere of ancient life, both public and private, from a state's decision to go to war or make peace, hold an election or meet a public crisis to an individual's business, marriage or travel plans. The articles in this book illustrate how the various Roman divinatory techniques were inter-woven into the structures of ancient society as well as how they were used in literary contexts. The intriguing question of the alleged doublethink among Roman intellectuals in their attitude to Divination is an important theme taken up in this book.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Islandica written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sverrir Jakobsson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442262915
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Iceland written by Sverrir Jakobsson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland demonstrates most of the characteristics of a modern liberal democracy. It has maintained political stability through a democratic process which enjoys universal legitimacy. Rapid economic modernization has also secured its inhabitants one of the highest living standards in the world, and a comprehensive and highly developed health system has ensured them longevity and one of the lowest rates of infant mortality in the world. Icelanders face, however, formidable challenges in maintaining their status as an independent nation. First, the Icelandic economy is fairly fragile, as overexploitation threatens the fish stocks that remain among Iceland’s principal economic resources. Second, the country is rich in unused energy resources, because many of its rivers are still not harnessed, and geothermal power is abundant. But using these resources will necessarily damage the pristine nature of the country, forcing the politicians and the Icelandic public to choose between environmental protection and industrial expansion. Finally, it remains to be seen if a country with just over 329.740 inhabitants will be able to manage its foreign relations in a complex and constantly changing world. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Iceland contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Iceland.
