Approaches to the Medieval Self : Representations and Conceptualizations of the Self in the Textual and Material Culture of Western Scandinavia, C. 800-1500.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eriksen, Stefka G.
Other Authors: Langsholt Holmqvist, Karen., Bandlien, Bjø.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Approaches to the Self - From Modernity Back to Viking and Medieval Scandinavia
  • The Networked Historical Self, Traveling Version
  • Cognitive Approaches to Old Norse Literature
  • The Precarious Self
  • Multiple Spaces, Multiple Selves? The Case of King Sverrir of Norway
  • The Medieval Subject and the Saga Hero
  • The Selfish Skald: The Problematic Case of the Self of the Poet of Sonatorrek
  • Medieval Page-turners: Interpreting Revenge in Njáls saga in Reykjabók (AM 468 4to) and Möðruvallabók (AM 132 fol.)
  • The Self in Legal Procedure: Oath-Taking as Individualism in Norwegian Medieval Law
  • The Agency of Children in Nordic Medieval Hagiography
  • Food, Everyday Practice, and the Self in Medieval Oslo: A Study of Identities Based on Dietary Reconstructions from Human Remains
  • Identifying "Occasions" of the Self in Viking-Age Scandinavia: Textile Production as Gendered Performance in Its Social and Spatial Settings
  • Self-expression through Eponymous Tenement Plots in Medieval Oslo
  • Searching for the Self in Danish Twelfth-Century Churches: A Praxeological Experiment
  • The Creation of Selves as a Social Practice and Cognitive Process: A Study of the Construction of Selves in Medieval Graffiti
  • The Self in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, and Beyond: Between the Material, the Social, and the Cognitive
  • Index.