CURSOR 09 Saints and their Lives on the Periphery, Antonsson: Veneration of Saints in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe (c. 1000-1200) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9782503530338)

This volume examines the cult of the saints and their associated literature in two peripheral regions of Christendom which were converted to Christianity around the turn of the first millennium, namely, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The fifteen authors focus on how cultures of sanctity were transmitted across the two regions and on the role that neighbouring Christian countries like England, Germany, and Byzantium played in that process. The authors also ask to what extent the division between Latin Christianity and Eastern Orthodoxy affected the early development of the cult of saints on the two peripheries. The first part of the book offers for the first time a comprehensive overview of the veneration of local and universal saints in Scandinavia and northern Rus' from c.1000 to c.1200, with a particular emphasis on saints that were venerated in both regions. The second part presents examples of how some early hagiographic works produced on the northern and eastern peripheries borrowed, adapted and transformed--i.e. contextualized--literary traditions from the Latin West and Byzantium.

Author: Haki Antonsson
ISBN-10: 2503530338
ISBN-13: 9782503530338
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2010
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 23