Moving Words in the Nordic Middle Ages. Tracing Literacies, Texts, and Verbal Communities

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Amy Mulligan, Else Mundal (eds) Pages: viii + 356 p. Illustrations:16 b/w, 2 tables b/w. Language(s):English, Old Norse, Latin. Publication Year:2019. Brepols, ISBN: 978-2-503-57810-1. Hardback -- SUMMARY The culmination of over a decade s research on verbal culture in the pre- and post-Conversion medieval North at Bergen s Centre for Medieval Studies, this volume traces the movement of words and texts temporally, geographically, and intellectually across different media and genres. The contributions gathered here begin with a reassessment of how the unique verbal cultures of Scandinavia and Iceland can be understood in a broader European context, and then move on to explore foundational Nordic Latin histories and vernacular sagas. Key case studies are put forward to highlight the importance of institutional and individual writing communities, epistolary and list-making cultures, and the production of manuscripts as well as runic inscriptions. Finally, the oral-written continuum is examined, with a focus on important works such as Íslendingabók and Landnámabók, Old-Norse Icelandic translated romances, and the development of prosimetra. Together, these essays form a state-of-the-art volume that offers new and vital insights into the role of literacy in the Norse-speaking world. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction AMY C. MULLIGAN Literacy Studies: Past, Present, and Future LEIDULF MELVE Medieval Nordic Backgrounds: Written Culture in an Oral Society ELSE MUNDAL Creating Absence: The Representation of Writing in Early Histories of the North AIDAN CONTI Tracing Scribal Centres in Medieval Norway ASLAUG OMMUNDSEN Letters from Kings: Epistolary Communication in the Kings Sagas (until c. 1150) JONAS WELLENDORF Letters, Networks, and Public Opinion in Medieval Norway (1024 1263) LEIDULF MELVE Gyroir á lykil (Gyroir owns the key): Materialized Moments of Communication in Runic Items from Medieval Bergen KRISTEL ZILMER Moving Lists: Enumeration between Use and Aesthetics, Storing and Creating LUCIE DOLEzALOVÁ Talking Place and Mapping Icelandic Identity in Íslendingabók and Landnámabok AMY C. MULLIGAN Traversing the Space of the Oral-Written Continuum: Medially Connotative Back-Referring Formulae in Landnámabók SLAVICA RANKOVIc Ǫrvar-Oddr's Aevikvioa and the Genesis of Ǫrvar-Odds saga: A Poem on the Move HELEN F. LESLIE-JACOBSEN Blood flying and brains falling like rain : Chivalric Conflict Gone Norse INGVIL BRÜGGER BUDAL From Oral to Written in Old Norse Culture: Questions of Genre, Contact and Continuity ELSE MUNDAL Index. Seller Inventory # ca1595

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