Sturla Þórðarson : skald, chieftain, and lawman /
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Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] |
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Description: | viii, 291 pages ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | The northern world : North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 AD : peoples, economics and cultures, 1569-1462 ; volume 78 Northern world ; v. 78. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11022287 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Contributors
- 1. Sturla Þórðarson, The Politician
- 2. The Works of Sturla Þórðarson
- 3. The Education of Sturla Þórðarson (and the Icelandic Elite)
- 4. Power, Protection and Pleasure: The Marital and Extra-Marital Relationships of the Women in Sturla Þórðarson's Life
- 5. Landnámabók and Its Sturlubók Version
- 6. Sturlubók and Cultural Memory
- 7. Foundational Myth in Sturlubók: An Analysis of the Tale of Ingólfr and Hjörlcifr
- 8. 'I'm on an island': The Concept of Outlawry and Sturla's Book of Settlements
- 9. Narrative Negotiations of Literacy Practices in Íslendinga saga and Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar
- 10. Gautr Jónsson of Mel: Craftsman of Battle and Chief Oral Source of Hákonar saga
- 11. Sturla: The Poet and the Creator of Prosimetrum
- 12. The Storied Verse of Sturla Þórðarson
- 13. Sturla Þórðarson's Two Perspectives on Thirteenth-Century History: Royal Chronicler vs. Icelandic Chieftain
- 14. Sturla Þórðarson's Narrative Personalities
- 15. Reykholt Revisited
- 16. Becoming Visible: Viewing Women in Íslendhiga saga
- 17. A Personal Account: The Official and the Individual in Hákonar saga Hákonarsonar
- 18. The Bias and Alleged Impartiality of Sturla Þórðarson
- 19. Codex Reseniani: Sturla Þórðarson as an Encyclopaedic Writer
- 20. Narrative, Evidence and the Reception of Járnsiða
- 21. 'New Worlds Emerging': History and Identity in Twelfth-Century Eurasia
- 22. Postscript: The Subjectivity of Sturla Þórðarson
- Bibliography
- Index