
The Cult of Saints in Nidaros Archbishopric
Manuscripts, Miracles, Objects
Ragnhild M. Bø, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson (eds)
- Pages: x + 350 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Illustrations:18 col., 4 tables b/w.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2022
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-59114-8
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Ragnhild M. Bø is an art historian, specializing in late medieval and early modern religious art; Jón Viðar Sigurðsson is Professor in Medieval History at the University of Oslo.
Scandinavia has often been considered as a peripheral part of the Christian world, with its archbishopric in Nidaros an isolated outpost of the Catholic Church. This volume, however, offers a reassessment of such preconceptions by exploring the way in which the Nidaros see celebrated the cult of saints and followed traditions that were both part of, and distinct from, elsewhere in Christian Europe. The contributions gathered here come from specialists across different disciplines, among them historians, philologists, art historians, and epigraphists, to offer a multifaceted insight into how texts and objects, sculpture, runes, and relics all drove the cult of saints in this northern corner of Europe. In doing so, the volume offers a nuanced understanding of the development of cults, the saints themselves, and their miracles, not only in the Norse world, but also more widely.
List of Illustrations
Introduction — RAGNHILD BØ AND JÓN VIÐAR SIGURÐSSON
Epitomes of Saints’ Lives in Two Old Norse-Icelandic Manuscripts: AM 764 4to and AM 672 4to — NATALIE M. VAN DEUSEN AND KIRSTEN WOLF
María, drótning himins ok iarðar: The Doctrine of Mary’s Queenship in Maríu saga — CHRISTELLE FAIRISE
The Mass of St Óláfr and a Recovered Sequence for a missa votive — ÅSLAUG OMMUNDSEN
The Development of the Cult of Magnús: The Interplay between Saints, Bishops and Earls in Orkney — CAITLIN ELLIS
Bergr Sokkason and God’s Dearest Friend: St Nicholas — JÓN VIÐAR SIGURÐSSON
The Miracles of Medieval Norway — CORNELIA SPJELKAVIK SPARRE
Telling and Writing Miracles in Medieval Iceland — ÁSDÍS EGILSDÓTTIR
‘Ok er hann sannheilagr’: The Role of Saints in Remembering and Representing Iceland’s Conversion — SIÂN GRØNLIE
Saints Across Borders: The Cults of St Gertrude of Nivelles and St Clare of Assisi in Late Medieval Norway — RAGNHILD M. BØ
An Afterlife for Cult Sculpture from Norwegian Churches: Tradition, Continuity and Partial Mutilation after the Reformation — NOËLLE L. W. STREETON
Saints in Everyday Life: Epigraphy as a Source for the Medieval Cult of Saints — ELISE KLEIVANE