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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hundahl, Hundahl
• Kjær, Lars
• Lund, Niels
• Hundahl, Kerstin

Titel

Introduction

Ist Teil von

• Denmark and Europe in the Middle Ages, c.1000-1525, 2014, p.1-8

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book illustrates how much the study of the Middle Ages has been transformed over the last decades in Denmark. It examines religious culture in Denmark and Europe. The book explores the introduction of Byzantine motifes, showing Christ suffering on the cross, into Denmark in the twelfth century. It shows that the cult of the Virgin Mary in Iceland was not merely a pale reflection of European ideas, but a vibrant and dynamic force that influenced both the theory and practice of motherhood on the very edge of Europe. The book analyses the rapid development of the Danish language in the central medieval period, in which Danish parted ways with the other Scandinavian languages. It also explores donations to the Cistercian abbey of Esrum, from 1150 to 1250, and the conflicts that developed around these.