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Title Sanctity in the North : saints, lives, and cults in Medieval Scandinavia / edited by Thomas A. DuBois.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, [2008]
Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Gibson Library Connections, 2010.
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 399 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies
Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-373) and index.
Contents St Ansgar : his Swedish mission and its larger context / Scott A. Mellor -- Sts Sunniva and Henrik : Scandinavian martyr saints in their hagiographic and national contexts / Thomas A. Dubois -- St Olaf and the skalds / John Lindow -- Sacred non-violence, cowardice profaned : St Magnus of Orkney in Nordic hagiography and historiograaphy / Maria-Claudia Tomany -- St Knud Lavard : a saint for Denmark / Thomas A. Dubois and Niels Ingwersen -- The cult of St Eric, king and martyr, in medieval Sweden / Tracey R. Sands -- Pride and politics in late-twelfth-century Iceland : the sanctity of Bishop Thorlakr Thórhallsson / Kirsten Wolf -- St Katarina in her own light / Thomas A. Dubois -- Hendreks saga og Kunegundis : marital consent in the legend of Henry and Cunegund / Marianne E. Kalinke -- Better off dead : approaches to medieval miracles / Margaret Cormack.
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Language Includes some text translated from Latin and Nordic languages.
Subject Christian saints -- Scandinavia.
Christian saints.
Scandinavia.
Christian saints -- Cult -- Scandinavia.
Christian saints -- Cult.
Spirituality -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500.
Spirituality.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Scandinavia -- Translations into English.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Scandinavian literature -- Translations into English.
Scandinavian literature -- Translations into English.
Scandinavian literature.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Scandinavia -- History and criticism.
Scandinavian literature -- History and criticism.
Christian hagiography.
Christian hagiography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Translations.
Added Author DuBois, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew), 1960-
Other Form: Print version: Sanctity in the North. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008396119
ISBN 9781442689060 (electronic book)
1442689064 (electronic book)
9780802091307
080209130X
9780802094100
0802094104