Approaches to the Medieval Self

Approaches to the Medieval Self

Representations and Conceptualizations of the Self in the Textual and Material Culture of Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500

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Edited by: Stefka G. Eriksen, Karen Langsholt Holmqvist and Bjørn Bandlien

De Gruyter | 2020

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110655582

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The main aim of this book is to discuss various modes of studying and defining the medieval self, based on a wide span of sources from medieval Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500, such as archeological evidence, architecture and art, documents, literature, and runic inscriptions. The book engages with major theoretical discussions within the humanities and social sciences, such as cultural theory, practice theory, and cognitive theory. The authors investigate how the various approaches to the self influence our own scholarly mindsets and horizons, and how they condition what aspects of the medieval self are 'visible' to us. Utilizing this insight, we aim to propose a more syncretic approach towards the medieval self, not in order to substitute excellent models already in existence, but in order to foreground the flexibility and the complementarity of the current theories, when these are seen in relationship to each other. The self and how it relates to its surrounding world and history is a main concern of humanities and social sciences. Focusing on the theoretical and methodological flexibility when approaching the medieval self has the potential to raise our awareness of our own position and agency in various social spaces today.

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S. G. Eriksen, K. L. Holmqvist, Norwegian Inst. for Cultural Heritage Research, Oslo and B. Bandlien, Univ. of South-Eastern Norway.

Frontmatter Open Access PDF	I
Acknowledgments Open Access PDF	V
Contents Open Access PDF	VII
Approaches to the Self – From Modernity Back to Viking and Medieval Scandinavia Stefka G. Eriksen, Karen Langsholt Holmqvist and Bjørn Bandlien Open Access PDF	1
The Networked Historical Self, Traveling Version David Gary Shaw Open Access PDF	21
Cognitive Approaches to Old Norse Literature Stefka G. Eriksen and Mark Turner Open Access PDF	41
The Precarious Self Francis F. Steen Open Access PDF	63
Multiple Spaces, Multiple Selves? The Case of King Sverrir of Norway Bjørn Bandlien Open Access PDF	81
The Medieval Subject and the Saga Hero Torfi H. Tulinius Open Access PDF	101
The Selfish Skald: The Problematic Case of the Self of the Poet of Sonatorrek Karl G. Johansson Open Access PDF	123
Medieval Page-turners: Interpreting Revenge in Njáls saga in Reykjabók (AM 468 4to) and Möðruvallabók (AM 132 fol.) Stefka G. Eriksen Open Access PDF	145
The Self in Legal Procedure: Oath-Taking as Individualism in Norwegian Medieval Law Ole-Albert Rønning Nordby Open Access PDF	177
The Agency of Children in Nordic Medieval Hagiography Rakel Igland Diesen Open Access PDF	195
Food, Everyday Practice, and the Self in Medieval Oslo: A Study of Identities Based on Dietary Reconstructions from Human Remains Elise Naumann Open Access PDF	213
Identifying “Occasions” of the Self in Viking-Age Scandinavia: Textile Production as Gendered Performance in Its Social and Spatial Settings Sarah Croix Open Access PDF	235
Self-expression through Eponymous Tenement Plots in Medieval Oslo Egil Lindhart Bauer Open Access PDF	255
Searching for the Self in Danish Twelfth-Century Churches: A Praxeological Experiment Line M. Bonde Open Access PDF	279
The Creation of Selves as a Social Practice and Cognitive Process: A Study of the Construction of Selves in Medieval Graffiti Karen Langsholt Holmqvist Open Access PDF	301
The Self in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, and Beyond: Between the Material, the Social, and the Cognitive Stefka G. Eriksen, Karen Langsholt Holmqvist and Bjørn Bandlien Open Access PDF	325
Index Open Access PDF	333

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Approaches to the Medieval Self

Representations and Conceptualizations of the Self in the Textual and Material Culture of Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500

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