Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9781108486811 |
| ISBN10: | 1108486819 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 648 pages |
| Size: | 236x160x35 mm |
| Weight: | 1160 g |
| Language: | English |
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The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 29 February 2024
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Short description:
An authoritative and accessible guide to Old Norse-Icelandic literature, featuring chapters from internationally distinguished scholars.
Long description:
A landmark new history of Old Norse-Icelandic literature, this volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to a unique and celebrated body of medieval writing. Chapters by internationally recognized experts offer the latest in-depth analysis of every significant genre and group of texts in the corpus, including sagas and skaldic verse, romances and saints' lives, myths and histories, laws and learned literature. Together, they provide a scholarly, readable and accessible overview of the whole field. Innovatively organized by the chronology and geography of the texts' settings - which stretch from mythic history to medieval Iceland, from Vinland to Byzantium - they reveal the interconnectedness of diverse genres encompassing verse and prose, translations and original works, Christian and pre-Christian literature, fiction and non-fiction. This is the ideal volume for specialists, students and general readers who want a fresh and authoritative guide to the literature of medieval Iceland and Norway.
'The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature offers readers comprehensive and authoritative essays on the principal genres, concepts, and contexts connected with this extraordinary medieval literature. Written by leading experts in the field, the book's twenty-six essays are divided into six sections, reflecting a broadly chronological arrangement (Contexts, The Distant Past, The Saga Age, The New Christian World, Beyond Iceland, and Compilations). The topics of the individual chapters range widely from, for example, 'Theoretical Approaches' to 'Landscape and Material Culture' to 'Diaspora Sagas' to 'Homilies and Christian Instruction', and in addition to treatments of the better-known saga genres this reference work also examines such critically important topics as legal culture and 'R&&&237;mur'. Elegantly written, with generous references to the scholarly literature, The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature seems destined to hold a prominent place on the 'ready-reference' shelf of every medievalist's library.' Stephen A. Mitchell, Harvard University
'The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature offers readers comprehensive and authoritative essays on the principal genres, concepts, and contexts connected with this extraordinary medieval literature. Written by leading experts in the field, the book's twenty-six essays are divided into six sections, reflecting a broadly chronological arrangement (Contexts, The Distant Past, The Saga Age, The New Christian World, Beyond Iceland, and Compilations). The topics of the individual chapters range widely from, for example, 'Theoretical Approaches' to 'Landscape and Material Culture' to 'Diaspora Sagas' to 'Homilies and Christian Instruction', and in addition to treatments of the better-known saga genres this reference work also examines such critically important topics as legal culture and 'R&&&237;mur'. Elegantly written, with generous references to the scholarly literature, The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature seems destined to hold a prominent place on the 'ready-reference' shelf of every medievalist's library.' Stephen A. Mitchell, Harvard University
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part I. Contexts: 1. History: Iceland from the settlement to 1400 CE Haki Antonsson; 2. Manuscripts and textual culture Emily Lethbridge; 3. Poetic language, form and metre R. D. Fulk; 4. Theoretical approaches Torfi H. Tulinius; 5. Reception Verena H&&&246;fig; 6. Landscape and material culture Jane Harrison; Part II. The Distant Past: 7. Mythological poetry Judy Quinn; 8. Heroic poetry Carolyne Larrington; 9. Fornaldars&&&246;gur Annette Lassen; Part III. The Saga Age: 10. &&&205;slendingas&&&246;gur Margaret Clunies Ross; 11. Poets' sagas Alison Finlay; 12. Prosimetrum in the &&&205;slendingas&&&246;gur Heather O'Donoghue; 13. Court poetry Diana Whaley; Part IV. The New Christian World: 14. Conversion and literature Christopher Abram; 15. Saints' lives Si&&&226;n Gr&&&248;nlie; 16. Christian poetry Kirsten Wolf; 17. Homilies and Christian instruction Jonas Wellendorf; 18. Biskupa s&&&246;gur &&&193;sd&&&237;s Egilsd&&&243;ttir; Part V. Beyond Iceland: 19. Kings' sagas Erin Michelle Goeres; 20. Diaspora sagas Judith Jesch; 21. Riddaras&&&246;gur Sif R&&&237;khar&&&240;sd&&&243;ttir; 22. R&&&237;mur M. J. Driscoll; Part VI. Compilations: 23. The Prose Edda Kevin J. Wanner; 24. Samt&&&237;&&&240;ars&&&246;gur &&&193;rmann Jakobsson; 25. Learned literature Gu&&&240;r&&&250;n Nordal; 26. Gr&&&225;g&&&225;s and the legal culture of Commonwealth Iceland William Ian Miller.
