Hagiographical literature, and in particular, the miracles of saints, can be valuable historical sources on the people who lived during the medieval period. They describe the fears, hopes, needs, and dreams of a community of believers and demonstrate the perpetuation of that same belief through the cult of the saint, as it grows and changes. This thesis analyses two Old Icelandic miracle collections from St Þorlákr, the first Icelandic saint: Jarteinabók, a collection of miracles from c. 1200 in Iceland; and Þorláks saga C, the fourteenth-century redaction of the life and miracles of St Þorlákr. These miracles make use of the names of supplicants, vows and offerings to the saint, relics of Þorlákr, and dreams and visions in order to describ...
This thesis examines a number of miracle collections and hagiographies written by Winchester monks i...
In medieval literature monstrous bodies form an integral part of the supernatural. Some are simply u...
Born from the Arnamagnæan Summer School in Manuscript Studies, six of the initial members of the Mas...
The concept of miracle is not the same in each culture and its interpretation is strictly linked wit...
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the ways in which Guðmundr’s fourteenth century hagiographe...
Þingeyrar Abbey was founded in 1133 and dissolved in the wake of the Lutheran Reformation (1550), to...
This study examines supernatural references in medieval Icelandic literature in light of modern Icel...
By examining the Hervararkviða and Völuspa within the Hauksbók, section AM 544 4to, and AM 98 8vo al...
This article investigates the historical context of Jatvarðar saga, the Icelandic saga of the Englis...
This article discusses the cult of James the Greater in medieval Iceland, considering the documents ...
This article deals with heroic legends that were widely known in the Nordic countries and further so...
Dedicated to the miraculous side of the Germania Latina nexus, the essays in this collection treat c...
This dissertation expands upon two recent academic developments: one, the increased interest in tran...
The five poems in this edition are known as Drapa af Mariugrét, or simply Mariugratr, Vitnisvisur af...
In addition to providing general evidence for the existence of a cult of St Benedict in medieval Ice...
This thesis examines a number of miracle collections and hagiographies written by Winchester monks i...
In medieval literature monstrous bodies form an integral part of the supernatural. Some are simply u...
Born from the Arnamagnæan Summer School in Manuscript Studies, six of the initial members of the Mas...
The concept of miracle is not the same in each culture and its interpretation is strictly linked wit...
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the ways in which Guðmundr’s fourteenth century hagiographe...
Þingeyrar Abbey was founded in 1133 and dissolved in the wake of the Lutheran Reformation (1550), to...
This study examines supernatural references in medieval Icelandic literature in light of modern Icel...
By examining the Hervararkviða and Völuspa within the Hauksbók, section AM 544 4to, and AM 98 8vo al...
This article investigates the historical context of Jatvarðar saga, the Icelandic saga of the Englis...
This article discusses the cult of James the Greater in medieval Iceland, considering the documents ...
This article deals with heroic legends that were widely known in the Nordic countries and further so...
Dedicated to the miraculous side of the Germania Latina nexus, the essays in this collection treat c...
This dissertation expands upon two recent academic developments: one, the increased interest in tran...
The five poems in this edition are known as Drapa af Mariugrét, or simply Mariugratr, Vitnisvisur af...
In addition to providing general evidence for the existence of a cult of St Benedict in medieval Ice...
This thesis examines a number of miracle collections and hagiographies written by Winchester monks i...
In medieval literature monstrous bodies form an integral part of the supernatural. Some are simply u...
Born from the Arnamagnæan Summer School in Manuscript Studies, six of the initial members of the Mas...