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Faith and knowledge in late medieval and early modern Scandinavia / edited by Karoline Kjesrud and Mikael Males.

Contributor(s): Kjesrud, Karoline, 1983- [editor.] | Males, Mikael, 1977- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Knowledge, scholarship, and science in the Middle Ages: v. 1.Publisher: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 306 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color facsimiles ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9782503579009; 2503579000Subject(s): Paganism -- Scandinavia -- History | Scandinavia -- Church history | Scandinavia -- Religious life and customsLOC classification: BR974 | .F35 2020Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Learning the truth / Karoline Kjesrud and Mikael Males -- The European challenges of faith and knowledge in the late Middle Ages: the concepts of nature and knowledge / Aksel Haaning -- The distribution of authority as reflected in literary transmission / Karoline Kjesrud -- 'Apparuit ei Christus in eodem loco': physical presence and divine truth in Birgitta of Sweden's revelations from the Holy Land / Maria H. Oen -- Mapping hagiographical literature in medieval and early modern Iceland / Natalie M. Van Deusen and Kirsten Wolf -- How do we know, how did they know?: the cult of saints in Iceland in the late Middle Ages / Margaret Cormack -- Denoting the holy in Skaldic tradition / Mikael Males -- 'Ađ allra orđa undirstađan sie riettlig fundin': the Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit in Lilja 90 / Martin Chase -- Faith and knowledge in Nordic charm magic / Stephen A. Mitchell -- Christian knowledge in late medieval Norway / Elise Kleivane -- The cross before Christ: ecclesiastical history and esotericism in the antiquarian scholarship of Johannes Bureus / Matthew Norris -- Biblical magic as a manifestation of folk belief in the north / Alessia Bauer.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Learning the truth / Karoline Kjesrud and Mikael Males -- The European challenges of faith and knowledge in the late Middle Ages: the concepts of nature and knowledge / Aksel Haaning -- The distribution of authority as reflected in literary transmission / Karoline Kjesrud -- 'Apparuit ei Christus in eodem loco': physical presence and divine truth in Birgitta of Sweden's revelations from the Holy Land / Maria H. Oen -- Mapping hagiographical literature in medieval and early modern Iceland / Natalie M. Van Deusen and Kirsten Wolf -- How do we know, how did they know?: the cult of saints in Iceland in the late Middle Ages / Margaret Cormack -- Denoting the holy in Skaldic tradition / Mikael Males -- 'Ađ allra orđa undirstađan sie riettlig fundin': the Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit in Lilja 90 / Martin Chase -- Faith and knowledge in Nordic charm magic / Stephen A. Mitchell -- Christian knowledge in late medieval Norway / Elise Kleivane -- The cross before Christ: ecclesiastical history and esotericism in the antiquarian scholarship of Johannes Bureus / Matthew Norris -- Biblical magic as a manifestation of folk belief in the north / Alessia Bauer.

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