The Order of Saint Victor in Medieval Scandinavia

This is the first complete volume to focus on the influence of the Order of Saint Victor in medieval Scandinavia. Although little known outside of Scandinavian scholarship, the Order of Saint Victor had an incredible impact on the region during the twelfth and subsequent centuries. Many of Scandinavia’s most powerful ecclesiastical figures travelled to Paris to the Abbey of Saint Victor and learned from the Order’s masters during the twelfth century. They then brought this learning with them on their return to Denmark, Norway, and Iceland. Subsequent centuries saw the influence of Saint Victor broaden through Sweden, Finland, and Estonia, brought through books, artworks, or the philosophy of crusade. The twenty-four chapters in this book cover all aspects of the Order of Saint Victor’s influence in Scandinavia across the Middle Ages through texts, histories, liturgy, theology, and art.

Christian Etheridge, Introduction

Part I. The Victorine Movement and the Abbey of Saint Victor

Juliet Mosseau, Life and its Meaning at the Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris

Frans van Liere, Lectio divina: Reading and Writing at Saint Victor and Beyond

Sigbjørn Sønnesyn, Tracing the Intrinsically Intransient: Texts in the Service of Practice and the Performative Spirit of the Victorine Movement

Part II. William of Æbelholt: A French Victorine in Scandinavia

Brian Patrick McGuire, William of Æbelholt: A Monastic Journey

Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen, The Ideals of Abbot William: The Victorine-Augustinian View On the Purpose and Ideals of Monastic Life in High Medieval Denmark

Micol Long, Seeing Things Through the Eyes of Travellers? The Effect of the Material Environment On Body and Mind from Paris to Denmark

Part III. The Order of Saint Victor and the Wider Augustinian Movement within the Archdiocese of Lund

Anna Minara Ciardi, Augustinian Movement in the North: Reform or Resistance? The Archdiocese of Lund in the Twelfth Century

Ane Bysted, The Victorine Connections of Anders Sunesen and his Hexameron

Kurt Villads Jensen, Victorines and the Danish Flag from Heaven

Anu Mänd, The Cult and Images of Saint Victor in Medieval Tallinn

Part IV. The Order of Saint Victor and the Wider Augustinian Movement within the Archdiocese of Nidaros

Øystein Ekroll, Augustinus Nidrosiensis: Archbishop Øystein of Nidaros, an Augustinian in the North

Gunnar Harðarson, The Abbey of Saint Victor and the Canonical Movement in the Province of Nidaros

Gottskálk Jensson, Cool Erudition: Icelandic Literature as a Corrective to Victorine City-of-God Politics in Twelfth-Century Norway

Steffen Hope, Terminus est ad occasum Europe: The Augustinian Canons of Ketilsfjörðr and the Expansionism of the Norwegian Medieval Church

Bjørn Bandlien, The Premonstratensians in Norway: Politics and Preaching

Lene Myrdal, The Arrival of the Premonstratensian Order in Norway

Part V. The Order of Saint Victor and the Wider Augustinian Movement within the Diocese of Uppsala

Roger Andersson, Victorines and Birgittines: A Fellowship in Mind?

Sanna Supponen, Victorine Influences in Vadstena and other Religious Houses in Medieval Sweden: The Dissemination of the Works of Hugh and Richard of Saint Victor

Biörn Tjällén, Praise of Creation and Praise of the Land: Hugh of St Victor, Ericus Olai, and the Chronica regni Gothorum (c. 1471)

Part VI. Victorine Texts, Liturgy and Scripture and their Influence in Medieval Scandinavia

Synnøve Midtbø Myking, Victorine, Augustinian, or simply French? The Norwegian Presence at Saint Victor and its Traces in Manuscript Fragments

Jaakko Tahkokallio, Victorine Texts and Petrus Comestor’s Historia scholastica in Medieval Sweden: The Evidence of the Fragments of the National Archives of Sweden and National Library of Finland

Dario Bullitta, Norwegian and Icelandic Clerics at the Parisian Abbeys of Saint Victor and Sainte Geneviève: A Reassessment

Siân Grønlie, Old Norse Bible Translation and the Victorine School of Exegesis

Roman Hankeln, Historia Olavi and its Victorine Background: The Musical Evidence

Index