Scandinavian Historical Writing, 1100–1400
This chapter talks about how historical writing in Scandinavia began in the early twelfth century, clearly as the result of European influence through the conversion to Christianity. In the following period, a considerable number of works were produced in the three Scandinavian kingdoms plus Iceland...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780199236428.003.0021 2023-05-15T16:48:57+02:00 Scandinavian Historical Writing, 1100–1400 Bagge, Sverre 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199236428.003.0021 unknown Oxford University Press Oxford Scholarship Online book 2018 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199236428.003.0021 2022-08-05T10:27:17Z This chapter talks about how historical writing in Scandinavia began in the early twelfth century, clearly as the result of European influence through the conversion to Christianity. In the following period, a considerable number of works were produced in the three Scandinavian kingdoms plus Iceland, largely in connection with the formation of dynastic kingdoms. The conversion to Christianity was a stimulus to historical writing not only through the introduction of script but also because of the challenge the new religion represented to the traditional culture. Consequently, most of the new kingdoms that came into being as the result of the expansion of Western Christendom in the tenth and eleventh centuries developed their own national historiography in which the origin of the people or the dynasty was a crucial issue. Book Iceland Oxford University Press (via Crossref) |
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This chapter talks about how historical writing in Scandinavia began in the early twelfth century, clearly as the result of European influence through the conversion to Christianity. In the following period, a considerable number of works were produced in the three Scandinavian kingdoms plus Iceland, largely in connection with the formation of dynastic kingdoms. The conversion to Christianity was a stimulus to historical writing not only through the introduction of script but also because of the challenge the new religion represented to the traditional culture. Consequently, most of the new kingdoms that came into being as the result of the expansion of Western Christendom in the tenth and eleventh centuries developed their own national historiography in which the origin of the people or the dynasty was a crucial issue. |
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