The Burden of History: Kirkjubæjarklaustur and the Biography of Landscape
The importance of landscape has long been recognized within monastic studies, both as an economic and spiritual resource. This paper focuses on the surrounding landscape of a single monastic site, that is Kirkjubæjarklaustur on Síða (south Iceland), one of the two female monasteries established in M...
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ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/2077-1444/14/5/665/ 2023-08-20T04:07:22+02:00 The Burden of History: Kirkjubæjarklaustur and the Biography of Landscape Sigrún Hannesdóttir 2023-05-16 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14050665 EN eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel14050665 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Religions; Volume 14; Issue 5; Pages: 665 monastic studies monastic archaeology medieval history Icelandic history female monasticism landscape biographies Text 2023 ftmdpi https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14050665 2023-08-01T10:05:47Z The importance of landscape has long been recognized within monastic studies, both as an economic and spiritual resource. This paper focuses on the surrounding landscape of a single monastic site, that is Kirkjubæjarklaustur on Síða (south Iceland), one of the two female monasteries established in Medieval Iceland. Through written sources, legends, and placenames, the aim of this paper is to reconstruct the biography of the landscape from before the founding of the monastery to after the Reformation. In particular, the paper considers how the perceived sacredness of the site of Kirkjubæjarklaustur may have been shaped by stories of Christian settlers prior to the monastic foundation and how the monastic memory informed the way in which the landscape was experienced after the Reformation and beyond. Text Iceland MDPI Open Access Publishing Kirkjubæjarklaustur ENVELOPE(-18.053,-18.053,63.789,63.789) Religions 14 5 665 |
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The importance of landscape has long been recognized within monastic studies, both as an economic and spiritual resource. This paper focuses on the surrounding landscape of a single monastic site, that is Kirkjubæjarklaustur on Síða (south Iceland), one of the two female monasteries established in Medieval Iceland. Through written sources, legends, and placenames, the aim of this paper is to reconstruct the biography of the landscape from before the founding of the monastery to after the Reformation. In particular, the paper considers how the perceived sacredness of the site of Kirkjubæjarklaustur may have been shaped by stories of Christian settlers prior to the monastic foundation and how the monastic memory informed the way in which the landscape was experienced after the Reformation and beyond. |
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