Saints and their lives on the periphery : veneration of saints in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe (c.1000-1200) /
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| Imprint: | Turnhout : Brepols ; Abingdon : Marston [distributor], 2010. |
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| Description: | 319 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cursor mundi ; v. 9 Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 9. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8303503 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Tables
- Introduction: The Veneration of Saints in Early Christian Scandinavia and Eastern Europe
- Part 1. Localizing Saints on the Periphery
- The Early Cult of Saints in Scandinavia and the Conversion: A Comparative Perspective
- Saints and Cathedral Culture in Scandinavia c. 1000-c. 1200
- The Cults of Saints in Norway before 1200
- Byzantine Saints in Rus' and the Cult of Boris and Gleb
- Novgorod and the Veneration of Saints in Eleventh-Century Rus': A Comparative View
- The Cult of St Olaf and Early Novgorod
- Part 2. Contextualizing Hagiography on the Periphery
- Anskar's Imagined Communities
- &Aelig;lnoth of Canterbury and Early Mythopoiesis in Denmark
- Writing and Speaking of St Olaf: National and Social Integration
- Textual-Evidence for the Transmission of the Passio Olavi Prior to 1200 and its Later Literary Transformations
- The Attraction of the Earliest Old Norse Vernacular Hagiography
- The Formation of the Cult of Boris and Gleb and the Problem of External Influences
- Conclusion: North and East European Cults of Saints in Comparison with East-Central Europe
- Index
