Jonas Wellendorf
I am particularly interested in Old Norse learned literature (rhetorical, religious, historiographical and mythological writings) and the interface between Latin and the vernacular in the North.
My current book project, Retying the Bonds: Gods and Mortals in Medieval Scandinavia, deals with medieval theorizing about the origin of the Scandinavian gods.
Address: University of California, Berkeley
Department of Scandinavian
6303 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley CA 94720-2690
USA
My current book project, Retying the Bonds: Gods and Mortals in Medieval Scandinavia, deals with medieval theorizing about the origin of the Scandinavian gods.
Address: University of California, Berkeley
Department of Scandinavian
6303 Dwinelle Hall
Berkeley CA 94720-2690
USA
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https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Research-Companion-Medieval-Icelandic/dp/0367133652/
The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities.
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials.
This volume will be of interest to Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists in general.
I have uploaded the table of contents.
Papers
https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Research-Companion-Medieval-Icelandic/dp/0367133652/
The last fifty years have seen a significant change in the focus of saga studies, from a preoccupation with origins and development to a renewed interest in other topics, such as the nature of the sagas and their value as sources to medieval ideologies and mentalities.
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas presents a detailed interdisciplinary examination of saga scholarship over the last fifty years, sometimes juxtaposing it with earlier views and examining the sagas both as works of art and as source materials.
This volume will be of interest to Old Norse and medieval Scandinavian scholars and accessible to medievalists in general.
I have uploaded the table of contents.
"Introduction to Interfaces 4" (The Editors: Paolo Borsa, Christian Høgel, Lars Boje Mortensen, Elizabeth Tyler); "Epistolary Documents in High-Medieval History-Writing" (Henry Bainton); "Measuring the Measuring Rod: Bible and Parabiblical Texts within the History of Medieval Literature" (Lucie Doležalová); "The Peripheral Centre: Writing History on the Western ‘Fringe’" (Máire Ní Mhaonaigh); "La edición del libro sagrado: el ‘paradigma alejandrino’ de Homero al Shahnameh" (Isabel Varillas Sánchez); "Voicing your Voice: The Fiction of a Life. Early Twelfth-Century Letter Collections and the Case of Bernard of Clairvaux" (Wim Verbaal); "The Formation of an Old Norse Skaldic School Canon in the Early Thirteenth Century" (Jonas Wellendorf)