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Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III: Legitimacy and Glory book cover

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Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III Legitimacy and Glory

Edited By Wojtek Jezierski, Kim Esmark, Hans Jacob Orning, Jón Viðar Sigurðsson Copyright 2021
342 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

342 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book explores the practical and symbolic resources of legitimacy which the elites of medieval Scandinavia employed to establish, justify, and reproduce their social and political standing between the end of the Viking Age and the rise of kingdoms in the thirteenth century. Geographically the chapters cover the Scandinavian realms and Free State Iceland. Thematically the authors cover a wide... Read more

Introduction: Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250: Legitimacy and Glory
Wojtek Jezierski

Section 1: Glorifying Kings

1. Canonizing Kings: Nordic Royal Hagiography as Legitimation and Glorification
Carl Phelpstead

2. Prosperity and Peace: Glorification of Rulers in Medieval Scandinavia
Simon Lebouteiller

3. Kings, Gods, Poets, and Priests: Varieties and Transformations of Circuits of Charismatic Legitimation in Norway
Kevin J. Wanner

4. Legitimizing Royal Power in Medieval Scandinavian Laws
Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist

Section 2: Spaces of Elevation

5. Building Glory: Elite Palaces in Early and High Medieval Scandinavia
Martin Hansson

6. Glory and Legitimation in the Aristocratic Hall
Lars Kjær

7. Elite Soldiers of Christ: Elevating the Secular Elite on Danish Church Walls, Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries
Kristin B. Aavitsland

Section 3: Elevating Social Orders

8. Moderation and Restraint During Conflict as Ideal Behavior in High Medieval Scandinavia and Iceland
Louisa Taylor

9. Father and Son, Brother and Friend: The Papal Curia and the Status of the Nordic Ecclesiastical Elite
Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt

10. Travels, Translations, and Cultural Brokerage: Courtly Literature as a Means of Elite Legitimation in Thirteenth-Century Norway
Bjørn Bandlien

11. Legitimation Through Narrative: Glorious Pasts as Arguments in Political Discourse
Roland Scheel

12. "Legitimation and Its Problems: The Sagas and the Icelandic Elite in the Thirteenth Century
Torfi H. Tulinius

13. Postscript
Patrick J. Geary

Biography

Wojtek Jezierski is Associate Professor, History of Ideas, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University, Stockholm and the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg.

Kim Esmark is Associate Professor of Medieval History at Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University.

Hans Jacob Orning is Professor of Medieval History at Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at University of Oslo.

Jón Viðar Sigurðsson is Professor of Medieval History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo.

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