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The Medieval Self: Representations and Conceptualizations of the Self in the Textual and Material Culture of Western Scandinavia, C www.ssoar.info Approaches to the Medieval Self: Representations and Conceptualizations of the Self in the Textual and Material Culture of Western Scandinavia, c. 800-1500 Eriksen, Stefka G. (Ed.); Langsholt Holmqvist, Karen (Ed.); Bandlien, Bjørn (Ed.) Veröffentlichungsversion / Published Version Sammelwerk / collection Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Eriksen, S. G., Langsholt Holmqvist, K., & Bandlien, B. (Eds.). (2020). 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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Typesetting: Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd. Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck www.degruyter.com Acknowledgments This book is one of the main results of the research project “The Self in Social Spaces,” funded by the Young Research Talents program at the Norwegian Research Council (2016–2020). Many thanks to the Norwegian Research Council for generous funding. The book is the end product of a long, creative process that started even be- fore the project was funded. The PI of the project, Stefka G. Eriksen, would like to thank her former colleagues at Institute for Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, at the University of Oslo, who provided a stimulating atmosphere for develop- ing this project. Eriksen would also like to thank Ian P. Wei, Kathrine Smith, Rita Copeland, Lena Liepe, Ármann Jakobsson, and Sverrir Jakobsson, for in- spiring discussions and feedback to an early version of the project at a semi- nar in Reykjavík, Iceland, 2014. The book is based on a conference organized by the editors in June 2018, in Oslo. In addition to the authors contributing to the book, the conference was attended by other scholars, who for various reasons did not contribute to the book. Thank you for participating and contributing to the discussions, Line Cecilie Engh, Jan Erik Rekdal, Margrete Syrstad Andås, Anders Jarlert, Mille Stein, Kaja Merete Hagen, and Terje Gansum. We are also grateful to Kristin Bakken and Ellen Hole, General Director and Head of Department at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage, for being supportive and enthusiastic to our work throughout the project, for participating at the conference in 2018, and for providing financial support for the OA-publication. Many thanks go to Maria Zucker, from De Gruyter, who attended the confer- ence in 2018 and was generous with advices and suggestions about the publica- tion from the very start. During its various stages, the publication has been followed up by Elisabeth Kempf, Laura Burlon, and Julia Sjöberg, from De Gruyter; many thanks for their help and assistance throughout the process too. To our authors, many thanks for excellent and inspiring cooperation. Many thanks to the peer-reviewers for constructive feedback to the articles in the book. And last but not least, many thanks to Philly Rickets for her precision and thoroughness when copy-editing the book and when preparing the index. Oslo, 20. April 2020 Stefka G. Eriksen, Karen Langsholt Holmqvist, Bjørn Bandlien Open Access. © 2020 Stefka G. Eriksen et al., published by de Gruyter. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110655582-202 Contents Acknowledgments V Stefka G. Eriksen, Karen Langsholt Holmqvist, and Bjørn Bandlien Approaches to the Self – From Modernity Back to Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 1 David Gary Shaw The Networked Historical Self, Traveling Version 21 Stefka G. Eriksen and Mark Turner Cognitive Approaches to Old Norse Literature 41 Francis F. Steen The Precarious Self 63 Bjørn Bandlien Multiple Spaces, Multiple Selves? The Case of King Sverrir of Norway 81 Torfi H. Tulinius The Medieval Subject and the Saga Hero 101 Karl G. Johansson The Selfish Skald: The Problematic Case of the Self of the Poet of Sonatorrek 123 Stefka G. Eriksen Medieval Page-turners: Interpreting Revenge in Njáls saga in Reykjabók (AM 468 4to) and Möðruvallabók (AM 132 fol.) 145 Ole-Albert Rønning Nordby The Self in Legal Procedure: Oath-Taking as Individualism in Norwegian Medieval Law 177 Rakel Igland Diesen The Agency of Children in Nordic Medieval Hagiography 195 VIII Contents Elise Naumann Food, Everyday Practice, and the Self in Medieval Oslo: A Study of Identities Based on Dietary Reconstructions from Human Remains 213 Sarah Croix Identifying “Occasions” of the Self in Viking-Age Scandinavia: Textile Production as Gendered Performance in Its Social and Spatial Settings 235 Egil Lindhart Bauer Self-expression through Eponymous Tenement Plots in Medieval Oslo 255 Line M. Bonde Searching for the Self in Danish Twelfth-Century Churches: A Praxeological Experiment 279 Karen Langsholt Holmqvist The Creation of Selves as a Social Practice and Cognitive Process: A Study of the Construction of Selves in Medieval Graffiti 301 Stefka G. Eriksen, Karen Langsholt Holmqvist, and Bjørn Bandlien The Self in Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, and Beyond: Between the Material, the Social, and the Cognitive 325 Index 333 Stefka G. Eriksen, Karen Langsholt Holmqvist, and Bjørn Bandlien Approaches to the Self – From Modernity Back to Viking and Medieval Scandinavia Abstract: In this article the editors of the book account for the book’smainaims, namely to discuss various modes of studying and defining the self and to investi- gate the various processes and practices that selves in Viking and medieval Scandinavia engaged with. In the book, these two research questions are dis- cussed based on various representations and conceptualizations of the self in textual, historical, art-historical, and archaeological sources from western Scandinavia. Thus, the book aims to contribute to (1) studies of the self in Viking and medieval Scandinavia; (2) studies of the medieval self in general; and (3) the- oretical discussions on the interconnections between cognition, materiality of cultural expressions, discourses and practices. This introductory article accounts for the historiographies of these fields and the structure of the book. Keywords: agency, blending theory, choosing / choice-making, cognitive the- ory, cultural theory, homo economicus, homo sociologicus, practice theory, ra- tional choice theory, social theory, wayfinding This book has two main aims. First, the book will discuss various modes of studying and defining the medieval self. This will encompass a wide range of source material from Scandinavia, c. 800–1500, such as archaeological, archi- tectural and artistic, documentary and literary sources, and runic inscriptions. The second main aim of the book will be to discuss what processes and practi- ces the self engaged with in this cultural context, by studying various textual and material representations and conceptualizations of the self. The first question that probably occurs to most readers of this book is: What is the self? The book as a whole will not seek to give a unified answer to this question as it will not deploy a single theoretical and methodological ap- proach. Rather, the individual articles will take on different approaches to the self, inspired by theories such as cultural theory, practice theory, or cognitive theory, or prioritizing close reading of the empirical material. The book does Stefka G. Eriksen, Karen Langsholt Holmqvist, Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research Bjørn Bandlien, University of South-Eastern Norway Open Access. © 2020 Stefka G. Eriksen et al., published by De Gruyter. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110655582-001 2 Stefka G. Eriksen, Karen Langsholt Holmqvist, and Bjørn Bandlien not seek to
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