Lokun íslensku miðaldaklaustranna

• Main Author: Kristjánsdóttir, Steinunn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Icelandic
• Published: Studia Theologia Islandica 2021
• Subjects: Klaustur; kirkjuvaldsstefnan; siðaskipti; miðaldir; Ísland; Monasticism; the investiture controversy; Reformation; Middle Ages; Iceland; Skriðuklaustur; Veita
• Online Access: https://ojs.hi.is/index.php/ritrodgudfraedistofnunar/article/view/3827

The founding of the fourteen monasteries that operated for a longer or shorter period in Iceland during the Middle Ages are in most cases known. Less is known about the exact timing of their dissolution. Nine monasteries were closed following the Reformation in the mid-sixteenth century, but this di...