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Saxo and His Younger Cousin a Study in the Principles Used to Make Gesta Danorum Into Compendium Saxonis
Saxo and his younger cousin a study in the principles used to make Gesta Danorum into Compendium Saxonis Marko Vitas Supervisor: Arne Jönsson Centre for Language and Literature, Lund University MA in Language and Linguistics, Latin SPVR01 Language and Linguistics: Degree Project – Master's (First Year) Thesis, 15 credits January 2017 Abstract Saxo and his younger cousin a study in the principles used to make Gesta Danorum into Compendium Saxonis The aim of this study is to offer as detailed analysis as possible of the Compendium Saxonis, a late medieval abridgement of the famous historical work Gesta Danorum, written towards the end of the XII century by Saxo Grammaticus. Books I–IV and XVI have been used for this purpose. The study contains an introduction, two chapters and a conclusion. In the introduction, scarce information known about life of Saxo Grammaticus, author of the original work, is summarized and briefly discussed. Further on, general information about Compendium and its dating are referred to. Second part of the introduction deals with the theoretical background concerning ancient and medieval abridged version. In this discussion, we rely on Paul Grice’s Theory of Communication and its reinterpretation by Markus Dubischar. In the First chapter, called Treatment of the content of Gesta Danorum in the Compendium Saxonis we analyse the way the author of the shorter version dealt with the content of the original. Particular attention is payed to the abridgment’s treatment of four distinct episode types frequent in the original. These are episodes pertaining to the supernatural, episodes pertaining to the moral and didactical issues, episodes pertaining to the upbringing, legal activity and death of a Danish king and episodes pertaining to war and destruction. -
Fernand Braudel and the Concept of the Person by Admir Skodo
Fernand Braudel and the concept of the person By Admir Skodo This article offers an interpretation and analysis of the presuppositions of historical thought.1 When the historian sets out to think about a past object certain conditions must be fulfilled for thinking to be at all possible. The aim of a presuppositional analysis is to arrive at a conceptualisation that articulates the conditions necessary for a particular body of thought. The point of entry into the analysis is this: observing the practices of a par- ticular discipline one sees fairly soon that there are certain concepts and procedures that distinguish it from other disciplines. There is of course overlap between some disciplines, such as between philosophy and his- tory. But between other disciplines there is no overlap that would yield an appropriate and consistent shared theory, such as is the case with history and mathematics for instance. Nevertheless, sometimes scholars transgress disciplinary boundaries. A prominent example is the French historian Fer- nand Braudel (1902–1985). Analysis is a descriptive undertaking but because all descriptions con- tain non-descriptive elements analysis is necessarily normative as well. For this reason, the analysis is only acceptable by historians who share its main presupposition – namely, that the object of historical thought is the person.2 I take the analysis to be justified and appropriate only given 1. Confessedly, my main areas of research lie in intellectual history and the philosophy of his- tory. Consequently, my thought is primarily drawn from and directed towards those disciplines. However, I still believe that what I am about to propose holds true for other sub-disciplines in history as well. -
The Succession and Coronation of Magnus Erlingsson
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives UNIVERSITY OF OSLO INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, CONSERVATION AND HISTORY Dissertation for the degree of Master of Arts: Norwegian Kingship Transformed: the Succession and Coronation of Magnus Erlingsson (Depiction of Magnus Erlingsson, by Gerhard Munthe, 1899) Thomas Malo Tollefsen Spring 2015 1 2 Abstract This dissertation is an exploration of the succession and coronation of Magnus Erlingsson based upon three themes: Norwegian kingship in theory, Norwegian kingship in practise, and Norwegian kingship in context, and a search for points of similarity and contrast with European trends. In the first theme the focus of the analysis will be the coronation of Magnus Erlingsson, exploring this in two parts: the rules of kingmaking and the narration of Snorre in the Saga of Magnus Erlingsson, and motivations behind the coronation. In the second theme the focus will again be on the coronation of Magnus Erlingsson. First, this dissertation attempts to put together a workable timeline from when Magnus is acclaimed king in 1161 to his coronation in either 1163 or 1164. Then the analysis shifts to the coronation itself, before it falls on the coronation oath and the Letter of Privileges to see what they can tell us about Magnus’s kingship, and the Law of Succession and what it meant for the future. In the third theme this dissertation attempts to contextualise Magnus’s kingship and this chapter will focus on two things: acquisition, and by extension how to legitimise your rule once it has been acquired, and succession to kingship. -
An Arena for Higher Powers Numen Book Series Studies in the History of Religions
An Arena for Higher Powers Numen Book Series Studies in the History of Religions Series Editors Steven Engler (Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada) Richard King (University of Kent, UK) Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) Gerard Wiegers (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Volume 150 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/nus An Arena for Higher Powers Ceremonial Buildings and Religious Strategies for Rulership in Late Iron Age Scandinavia By Olof Sundqvist LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover illustration: Stone coffin, Sanda, Gotland. Photo: Bengt A. Lundberg. ATA, Riksantikvarieämbetet Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sundqvist, Olof. An arena for higher powers : ceremonial buildings and religious strategies for rulership in late Iron Age Scandinavia / by Olof Sundqvist. pages cm. — (Numen book series : studies in the history of religions : ISSN 0169-8834 ; Volume 150) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-29270-3 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-30748-3 (e-book : alk. paper) 1. Scandinavia—Religion. 2. Religion and politics—Scandinavia—History. 3. Scandinavia—Kings and rulers—Religious life. 4. Scandinavia—Antiquities. I. Title. BL863.S85 2015 293—dc23 2015034775 issn 0169-8834 isbn 978-90-04-29270-3 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-30748-3 (e-book) Copyright 2016 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. -
Elite Networks and Courtly Culture in Medieval Denmark Denmark in Europe, 1St to 14Th Centuries
ELITE NETWORKS AND COURTLY CULTURE IN MEDIEVAL DENMARK DENMARK IN EUROPE, 1ST TO 14TH CENTURIES _______________ A Dissertation Presented to The Faculty of the Department of History University of Houston _______________ In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy _______________ By Maria R. D. Corsi May, 2014 . ELITE NETWORKS AND COURTLY CULTURE IN MEDIEVAL DENMARK DENMARK IN EUROPE, 1ST TO 14TH CENTURIES _________________________ Maria R. D. Corsi APPROVED: _________________________ Sally N. Vaughn, Ph.D. Committee Chair _________________________ Frank L. Holt, Ph.D. _________________________ Kairn A. Klieman, Ph.D. _________________________ Michael H. Gelting, Ph.D. University of Aberdeen _________________________ John W. Roberts, Ph.D. Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Department of English ii ELITE NETWORKS AND COURTLY CULTURE IN MEDIEVAL DENMARK DENMARK IN EUROPE, 1ST TO 14TH CENTURIES _______________ An Abstract of a Dissertation Presented to The Faculty of the Department of History University of Houston _______________ In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy _______________ By Maria R.D. Corsi May, 2014 ABSTRACT This dissertation advances the study of the cultural integration of Denmark with continental Europe in the Middle Ages. By approaching the question with a view to the longue durée, it argues that Danish aristocratic culture had been heavily influenced by trends on the Continent since at least the Roman Iron Age, so that when Denmark adopted European courtly culture, it did so simultaneously to its development in the rest of Europe. Because elite culture as it manifested itself in the Middle Ages was an amalgamation of that of Ancient Rome and the Germanic tribes, its origins in Denmark is sought in the interactions between the Danish territory and the Roman Empire. -
Uløste Opgaver
©Scandia 2011 www.tidskriftenscandia.se Uløste opgaver Adam af Bremen, Saxo Grammaticus og Knytlinga saga Michael H. Gelting Året 2011 er ikke kun et middelalderhistorisk jubilæumsår østensunds. I 1911 udkom ikke blot Lauritz Weibulls Kritiska undersökningar i Nordens historia omkring år 1000,1 men også, i København, den første udgave af Kr. Erslevs Historisk Teknik, en bog, som for generationer af danske historikere blev den kildekritiske metodes katekismus.2 Erslev, som var født i 1852, tilhørte slægt- leddet før brødrene Lauritz og Curt Weibull, og i 1911 havde han allerede lagt sit banebrydende arbejde inden for dansk middelalderhistorie bag sig.3 Lauritz Weibulls Kritiska undersökningar var således på ingen måde den kildekritiske metodes gennembrud inden for studiet af Danmarks middelal- der. Når afhandlingen alligevel står som epokegørende, skyldes det projek- tets dristighed. Stort set havde Erslev holdt sig til 1200-tallets og senmid- delalderens danske historie, hvor kildematerialet er rigeligere, og hvor den tradition, der skulle gøres op med, tog sit udgangspunkt i Arild Huitfeldts Danmarkshistoriske forfatterskab fra tiden omkring 1600.4 Lauritz Weibull anvendte for første gang for alvor kildekritikken på den langt kildefattigere foregående tid, hvor der kun er få faste holdepunkter, og hvor kritikken måtte binde an med fremstillinger, hvis prestige var endnu større end Huitfeldts: Saxo Grammaticus, de norske kongesagaer og Adam af Bremen. De pro- blemer, det stillede for den kildekritiske metode, betingede også den særlige form, som Lauritz Weibulls afhandling fik. Kritiska undersökningar blev en usædvanlig puristisk kildekritisk afhandling, hvis sigte for en udvendig be- tragtning nærmest måtte forekomme rent negativt. Det gjaldt for Lauritz Weibull i første omgang om at nedbryde, om at eliminere alle de kilder, som kunne vises at være sekundære eller på anden vis upålidelige. -
The Succession and Coronation of Magnus Erlingsson
UNIVERSITY OF OSLO INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY, CONSERVATION AND HISTORY Dissertation for the degree of Master of Arts: Norwegian Kingship Transformed: the Succession and Coronation of Magnus Erlingsson (Depiction of Magnus Erlingsson, by Gerhard Munthe, 1899) Thomas Malo Tollefsen Spring 2015 1 2 Abstract This dissertation is an exploration of the succession and coronation of Magnus Erlingsson based upon three themes: Norwegian kingship in theory, Norwegian kingship in practise, and Norwegian kingship in context, and a search for points of similarity and contrast with European trends. In the first theme the focus of the analysis will be the coronation of Magnus Erlingsson, exploring this in two parts: the rules of kingmaking and the narration of Snorre in the Saga of Magnus Erlingsson, and motivations behind the coronation. In the second theme the focus will again be on the coronation of Magnus Erlingsson. First, this dissertation attempts to put together a workable timeline from when Magnus is acclaimed king in 1161 to his coronation in either 1163 or 1164. Then the analysis shifts to the coronation itself, before it falls on the coronation oath and the Letter of Privileges to see what they can tell us about Magnus’s kingship, and the Law of Succession and what it meant for the future. In the third theme this dissertation attempts to contextualise Magnus’s kingship and this chapter will focus on two things: acquisition, and by extension how to legitimise your rule once it has been acquired, and succession to kingship. This will be achieved by looking for similarities in two kingdoms of great importance to Norway in this period, namely England and France.