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Book Synopsis Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland by : Stefan Drechsler
Download or read book Illuminated Manuscript Production in Medieval Iceland written by Stefan Drechsler and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a cultural revolution that took place in the Scandinavian artistic landscape during the medieval period. Within just one generation (c. 1340?1400), the Augustinian monastery of Helgafell became the most important centre of illuminated manuscript production in western Iceland. By conducting interdisciplinary research that combines methodologies and sources from the fields of Art History, Old Norse-Icelandic manuscript studies, codicology, and Scandinavian history, this book explores both the illuminated manuscripts produced at Helgafell and the cultural and historical setting of the manuscript production.00Equally, the book explores the broader European contexts of manuscript production at Helgafell, comparing the similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence of Norwich and surrounding East Anglia in England, northern France, and the region between Bergen and Trondheim in western Norway. The book proposes that most of these workshops are related to ecclesiastical networks, as well as secular trade in the North Sea, which became an important economic factor to western Icelandic society in the fourteenth century. The book thereby contributes to a new and multidisciplinary area of research that studies not only one but several European cultures in relation to similar domestic artistic monuments and relevant historical evidence. It offers a detailed account of this cultural site in relation to its scribal and artistic connections with other ecclesiastical and secular scriptoria in the broader North Atlantic region.
Book Synopsis Icelandic Sagas and Manuscripts by : Jónas Kristjánsson
Download or read book Icelandic Sagas and Manuscripts written by Jónas Kristjánsson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Icelandic Manuscripts by : Halldór Hermannsson
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:
Book Synopsis Icelandic Manuscripts by : Jónas Kristjánsson
Download or read book Icelandic Manuscripts written by Jónas Kristjánsson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Haustlǫng of Þjóðólfr of Hvinir by : Þjóðólfr ór Hvini
Download or read book The Haustlǫng of Þjóðólfr of Hvinir written by Þjóðólfr ór Hvini and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest preserved Skaldic poems, which were based on highly complex rules of alliteration and metre, this 10th-century work praises the gift of a painted shield depicting mythological scenes. This is a bilingual edition of the poem.
Book Synopsis Icelandic Sagas and Manuscripts by : Jónas Kristjánsson
Download or read book Icelandic Sagas and Manuscripts written by Jónas Kristjánsson and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mirrors of Virtue by : Margrét Eggertsdóttir
Download or read book Mirrors of Virtue written by Margrét Eggertsdóttir and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a departure from previous practice, this volume of 'Opuscula' presents ten articles on a single theme: manuscript and print in late pre-modern Iceland, the period between the advent of print in the early sixteenth century to the establishment of the Icelandic State Broadcasting Service in the early twentieth. Throughout this period, manuscript transmission continued to exist side by side with print, the two media serving different, but overlapping, audiences and transmitting different, but overlapping, types of texts. The authors take their point of departure in recent developments within literary and cultural studies which focus on the artefactuality of texts and the social, historical and cultural contexts in which they are produced and consumed. The volumes title, 'Mirrors of virtue', refers not only to the popular late medieval and early modern genre of exemplary and/or admonitory mirror literature several examples of which are discussed but also to the idea that both manuscripts and printed books are reflections of virtue in a broader sense.
Download or read book Double Blind written by Winokur Sara and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Mystery Double Blind: The Icelandic Manuscript Murders is a wild ride through the cultural landscape of Iceland, from rural farmsteads to icy fjords to the high-tech world of DNA forensics. A young boy disappears in the chill of North Iceland. Twenty years later, a mysterious poem lands on the desk of his twin sister Brynja, a forensic geneticist, and rekindles her hopes that her brother might be alive. As Brynja unravels the clues, more poems arrive, each bearing dire consequences for those who receive them: the guard of the medieval manuscript of Icelandic sagas that may have the answer to her burning question, the prime minister's secretary, the local pastor. Is the poet out to stop Brynja from finding her brother and shut down her access to the DNA database? Or is the verse maker simply a psychopath copycat killer? Fighting the visual auras that have plagued her since childhood and now threaten everything she holds dear, Brynja must summon the strength to navigate the twisted labyrinth of the poet's mind and confront the dark secret buried in her family's past.
Book Synopsis Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments by : Åslaug Ommundsen
Download or read book Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments written by Åslaug Ommundsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as bookbindings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Such fragments provide a tantalizing, yet often problematic glimpse into the manuscript culture of the Middle Ages. Exploring the opportunities and difficulties such documents provide, this volume concentrates on the c. 50,000 fragments of medieval Latin manuscripts stored in archives across the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This large collection of fragments (mostly from liturgical works) provides rich evidence about European Latin book culture, both in general and in specific relation to the far north of Europe, one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. As the essays in this volume reveal, individual and groups of fragments can play a key role in increasing and advancing knowledge about the acquisition and production of medieval books, and in helping to distinguish locally made books from imported ones. Taking an imaginative approach to the source material, the volume goes beyond a strictly medieval context to integrate early modern perspectives that help illuminate the pattern of survival and loss of Latin manuscripts through post-Reformation practices concerning reuse of parchment. In so doing it demonstrates how the use of what might at first appear to be unpromising source material can offer unexpected and rewarding insights into diverse areas of European history and the history of the medieval book.
Download or read book Iceland's Bell written by Halldor Laxness and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king’s hangman. In the years that follow, the hapless but resilient rogue Hreggvidsson becomes a pawn entangled in political and personal conflicts playing out on a far grander scale. Chief among these is the star-crossed love affair between Snaefridur, known as “Iceland’s Sun,” a beautiful, headstrong young noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the king’s antiquarian, an aristocrat whose worldly manner conceals a fierce devotion to his downtrodden countrymen. As their personal struggle plays itself out on an international stage, Laxness creates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and tragedy, charged with narrative enchantment on every page. Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland's Ball is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture by : Rory McTurk
Download or read book A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture written by Rory McTurk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis The Icelandic Physiologus by : Halldór Hermannsson
Download or read book The Icelandic Physiologus written by Halldór Hermannsson and published by Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1938 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga by : Margaret Clunies Ross
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga written by Margaret Clunies Ross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval Norse-Icelandic saga is one of the most important European vernacular literary genres of the Middle Ages. This Introduction to the saga genre outlines its origins and development, its literary character, its material existence in manuscripts and printed editions, and its changing reception from the Middle Ages to the present time. Its multiple sub-genres - including family sagas, mythical-heroic sagas and sagas of knights - are described and discussed in detail, and the world of medieval Icelanders is powerfully evoked. The first general study of the Old Norse-Icelandic saga to be written in English for some decades, the Introduction is based on up-to-date scholarship and engages with current debates in the field. With suggestions for further reading, detailed information about the Icelandic literary canon, and a map of medieval Iceland, this book is aimed at students of medieval literature and assumes no prior knowledge of Scandinavian languages.
Book Synopsis Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic Maríu Saga in Its Manuscript Contexts by : Daniel C. Najork
Download or read book Reading the Old Norse-Icelandic Maríu Saga in Its Manuscript Contexts written by Daniel C. Najork and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Norse-Icelandic Maríu saga survives in nineteen manuscripts. In the extant manuscripts Maríu saga rarely exists in the codex by itself. The present study, then, restores the saga to its manuscript contexts in order to better understand the
Book Synopsis Icelandic Manuscripts by : Halldór Hermannsson
Download or read book Icelandic Manuscripts written by Halldór Hermannsson and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of Norse Manuscripts in Edinburgh, Dublin and Manchester by : Olai Skulerud
Download or read book Catalogue of Norse Manuscripts in Edinburgh, Dublin and Manchester written by Olai Skulerud and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers manuscripts in the Advocate's Library, Edinburgh University Library, the libraries of the Royal Irish Academy and Trinity College, and the John Rylands Library.
