Nicolas Meylan, Religion, mythe et politique en Islande médiévale

• Published in: Archives de sciences sociales des religions
• Main Author: Pons, Christophe
• Format: Review
• Language: French
• Published: Éditions de l’EHESS 2020
• Subjects: relig; hist; Iceland; Islande
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/assr.57937; http://journals.openedition.org/assr/57937

Ce livre rassemble un ensemble d’études qui ont pour la plupart déjà été publiées ailleurs. Mais elles sont ici réunies à dessein, afin de solidement arrimer les bases critiques d’une refondation théorique de l’histoire des religions de la Scandinavie médiévale. Il s’agit donc d’un ouvrage académiquement engagé qui assume son projet, celui de poser les jalons d’une mise en doute des consensus admis, souvent de longue date, au sein des études historiques sur la religion des anciens Scandinaves. This book brings together a series of studies, most of which have already been published elsewhere. But here they are brought together for purpose, in order to firmly anchor the critical foundations of a theoretical overhaul of the history of medieval Scandinavia’s religions. It is therefore an academic book that takes responsibility for his project, that of laying the foundations for questioning the consensus that has been accepted, often for a long time, in historical studies on the religion of the former Scandinavian people.