Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages
The present book is the result of research carried out at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) in Oslo during the academic year 2007–08. An international group of scholars from different disciplines—history of religion, medieval history and celtology—attempted to gain a better understanding of...
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oai:lib.umy.ac.id:513132021-06-16T13:06:08ZIdeology and Power in the Viking and Middle AgesGro Steinsland, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Jan Erik Rekdal and Ian BeuermannIdeology Viking Middle AgesThe present book is the result of research carried out at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) in Oslo during the academic year 2007–08. An international group of scholars from different disciplines—history of religion, medieval history and celtology—attempted to gain a better understanding of the ideological aspects of rulership in the Nordic countries during the Viking and early Middle Ages. The most important research is now presented in this book, Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages. Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney and the Faeroes. We have incurred a great debt to the Centre for Advanced Study for the stimulating and luxurious research conditions we enjoyed during our project there. Together, the volume’s individual chapters thus represent our interdisciplinary project: methodological approaches and professional interests differ, but our common research revolved around the relation between power and religion. We have then also chosen to publish our results as chapters of a common book, rather than as a collection of articles. All authors have contributed with much more than their texts. Even though the length of the stay at the Centre for Advanced Study varied for individual participants, we were all engaged in an exciting, challenging, and fruitful discussion on the power of rulers and religion from the Viking to the Middle Ages. At the end of a year of intensive research into a common project, we have all developed a deeper, perhaps new, understanding of the important relations between power, ideology, myths and rituals in a common northern European warrior culture of the late Viking Age and the transition to Christianity and the Middle Ages. The main hypothesis, that important elements of the pre-Christian ideology of rulership survived into the early Middle Ages, transformed or even simply transferred, seems to have been strengthened by our research. This book presents some of our main results, and hopes to initiate further discussion. Four of the participants have been responsible for the continuation and publication of our research: Prof. Gro Steinsland, Prof. Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Prof. Jan Erik Rekdal, and Dr. Ian Beuermann.brill2011eBooke book 165Bahasa Inggrishttp://oaipmh-jogjalib.umy.ac.idkatalog.php?opo=lihatDetilKatalog&id=51313 |
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Ideology Viking Middle Ages Gro Steinsland, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Jan Erik Rekdal and Ian Beuermann Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages |
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The present book is the result of research carried out at the Centre for
Advanced Study (CAS) in Oslo during the academic year 2007–08. An
international group of scholars from different disciplines—history of
religion, medieval history and celtology—attempted to gain a better
understanding of the ideological aspects of rulership in the Nordic
countries during the Viking and early Middle Ages. The most important
research is now presented in this book, Ideology and Power in the
Viking and Middle Ages. Scandinavia, Iceland, Ireland, Orkney and the
Faeroes. We have incurred a great debt to the Centre for Advanced
Study for the stimulating and luxurious research conditions we enjoyed
during our project there.
Together, the volume’s individual chapters thus represent our
interdisciplinary project: methodological approaches and professional
interests differ, but our common research revolved around the relation
between power and religion. We have then also chosen to publish our
results as chapters of a common book, rather than as a collection of
articles. All authors have contributed with much more than their texts.
Even though the length of the stay at the Centre for Advanced Study
varied for individual participants, we were all engaged in an exciting,
challenging, and fruitful discussion on the power of rulers and religion
from the Viking to the Middle Ages.
At the end of a year of intensive research into a common project,
we have all developed a deeper, perhaps new, understanding of
the important relations between power, ideology, myths and rituals
in a common northern European warrior culture of the late Viking
Age and the transition to Christianity and the Middle Ages. The main
hypothesis, that important elements of the pre-Christian ideology of
rulership survived into the early Middle Ages, transformed or even
simply transferred, seems to have been strengthened by our research.
This book presents some of our main results, and hopes to initiate
further discussion.
Four of the participants have been responsible for the continuation
and publication of our research: Prof. Gro Steinsland, Prof. Jón Viðar
Sigurðsson, Prof. Jan Erik Rekdal, and Dr. Ian Beuermann. |
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Gro Steinsland, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, Jan Erik Rekdal and Ian Beuermann |
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Ideology and Power in the Viking
and Middle Ages |
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Ideology and Power in the Viking
and Middle Ages |
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and Middle Ages |
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Ideology and Power in the Viking
and Middle Ages |
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and Middle Ages |
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2011 |
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