Denmark and Europe in the Middle Ages, c.1000-1525
Subtitle: essays in honour of professor Michael H. Gelting
By: edited by Kerstin Hundahl, Lund University, Sweden ; Lars Kjær, New College of the Humanities, UK ; Niels Lund, Copenhagen University, Denmark
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781472417503; 9781472417510; 9781472417527
Subjects: History; Church history; Law; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Kerstin Hundahl and Lars Kjær; title: PART I. RELIGIOUS CULTURE. The settlement of disputes by compromise according to some early Danish charters / Kim Esmark; title: Byzantinizing crucifixes in central medieval Denmark : how, when and why / Ebbe Nyborg; title: Motherhood as emotion and social practice : Mary and Anne as maternal models in medieval Iceland / Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir; title: The Black Friars and the Black Death : effects of the plague on friars preachers in fourteenth-century northern Europe / Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen; title: PART II. INTELLECTUAL CULTURE. Contacts between Denmark and Flanders in the eleventh and twelfth centuries : the tiniest of evidence / Steffen Harpsøe; title: Banking on, and with, the Victorines : the strange case of Archbishop Eskil's lost deposit / Mia Münster-Swendsen; title: The transformation of the Danish language in the central Middles Ages : a case of Europeanization? / Niels Houlberg Hansen; title: Two journeys and one university : King Christian I and Queen Dorothea's journeys to Rome and the foundation of the University of Copenhagen / Carsten Jahnke; title: PART III. LEGAL CULTURE. The church law of Scania on the consecration of churches and the appointment of parish priests : international canon law and that of Scania / Bertil Nilsson; title: Dating the laws of medieval Denmark : studies of the manuscripts of the Danish church laws / Per Andersen; title: Regional or central? : legislation and law in thirteenth-century Denmark / Helle Vogt; title: Border warfare between king and pope in late medieval Denmark : a case study of royal politics towards ecclesiastical benefices and papal provisions c. 1350-1525 / Per Ingesman; title: PART IV. ARISTOCRATIC AND COURT CULTURE. Apocalypse then? : the First Crusade, traumas of war and Thomas de Marle / Thomas Kristian Heebøll-Holm; title: Runes, knives and Vikings : the Valdemarian kings and the Danish past in a comparative perspective / Lars Kjær; title: Placing blame and creating legitimacy : the implications of Rügish involvement in the struggle over the succession amidst the Danish church strife c.1258-1260 / Kerstin Hundahl.