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
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Toronto Old Norse and Icelandic studies.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
Includes some text translated from Latin and Nordic languages. |
Subject |
Christian saints -- Scandinavia.
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Christian saints. |
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Scandinavia. |
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Christian saints -- Cult -- Scandinavia.
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Christian saints -- Cult. |
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Spirituality -- Scandinavia -- History -- To 1500.
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Spirituality. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
Subject |
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Scandinavia -- Translations into English.
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Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) |
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Scandinavian literature -- Translations into English.
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Scandinavian literature -- Translations into English. |
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Scandinavian literature. |
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Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Scandinavia -- History and criticism.
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Scandinavian literature -- History and criticism.
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Christian hagiography.
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Christian hagiography. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Translations.
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Added Author |
DuBois, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrew), 1960-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Sanctity in the North. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008396119 |
ISBN |
9781442689060 (electronic book) |
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1442689064 (electronic book) |
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9780802091307 |
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080209130X |
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9780802094100 |
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0802094104 |
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