Syllabus/achievement requirements

History

Sawyer, B. and P. Sawyer (1993). Medieval Scandinavia. London. (238 pages.)

Cambridge medieval history, vol. V (1999):

  • Ch. 1(b) Epstein S. A. ‘Urban society’, pp. 26–37. (11 pages)
  • Ch. 1(c) Sivéry, G. ‘Rural society’, pp. 38–49. (11 pages)
  • Ch. 23(a) Bagge, S. ‘The Scandinavian kingdoms’, pp. 720-42. (22 pages)

Andrén, A. (1989). State and towns in the middle ages, pp. 585–609. (24 pages)

Social groups and the laws

Gurevich, A. J. (1987). ‘The early state in Norway’. In: The early state in Norway (Claessen, H. J. M. and P. Skalnik edd.). Haag, pp. 403–23. (20 pages)

Bagge, S. (1999). Society and politics in Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla,pp. 121–45. (24 pages)

Sawyer, B. (1989). ‘Women as landholders and alienators of property’ In: Female power in the midddle ages.... (Glente, K. and L. Winther-Jensen edd.). K?benhavn, pp. 156–89. (16 pages)

Blom, G. A. (1991). ‘Women and justice in Norway c. 1300–1600’. In: People and places in northern Europe 500–1600. Essays in honour of Peter Hayes Sawyer (Wood, I. and N. Lund edd.).London, pp. 225–35. (10 pages)

Karras, R. M. (1988). Slavery and society in medieval Scandinavia. London, pp. 40–60 plus end notes. (28 pages)

Norseng, P. (1991). ‘Law codes as a source for Nordic history in the early middle ages’. In: Scandinavian Journal of history (1991), pp. 137–66. (37 pages)

Poulsen, B. (2002). ‘The widening of import trade and consumption around 1200 A.D.: a Danish perspective’. In: Cogs, Cargoes and commerce. Maritime bulk trade in northern Europe 1150–1400 (Berggren, L. et al. edd.). Toronto, pp. 31–52. (19 pages)

Helle, K. (1994). ‘The Hanseatic merchants in Bergen in the middle ages’. In: Bergen and the German Hansa (?ye, I. ed.), Bergen, pp. 11–28. (17 pages)

Spurkland, T. (2004). ‘Literacy and “runacy” in medieval Scandinavia’. In: Scandinavia and Europe 800–1350. (Adams, J. and K. Holman edd.). Antwerpen, pp. 333–44. (11 pages)

Seim, Karin Fjellhammer (1988). ‘A review of the runic material’. In: The Bryggen papers. Supplemantary series no. 2, pp. 10-23. (13 pages)

The Church

Steinsland, G. (1992). ‘The mythological basis of the Scandinavian ideology of kingship’. In: Germanische Religionsgeschichte. Quellen un Quellenprobleme (Bech, H. ed.). Berlin, pp. 736–75. (39 pages)

Fidjest?l, B. (1997). ’European and native tradition in ?lafs saga helga’.In: Selected papers (Haugen, O. E. et al edd.). Odense, pp. 184–200. (16 pages)

Bossy, J. (1983). ‘The mass as a social institution’. In: Past and present, vol. 100, pp. 29–61.(32 pages)

Helle, K. (1988). ‘The organisation of the twelfth-century Norwegian church’. In: St Magnus Cathedral and Orkney’s twelfth-century renaissance (Crawford, B. ed.), Aberdeen, pp. 46 – 56. (10 pages)

Sawyer, P. (1988). ‘Dioceses and parishes in twelfth-century Scandinavia’. In: St Magnus Cathedral and Orkney’s twelfth-century renaissance (Crawford, B. ed.), Aberdeen, pp. 36–45. (9 pages)

Helander, S. (2001) ‘The liturgical profile of the parish church in medieval Scandinavia’. In: The liturgy of the medieval church (Heffernan, T. J. and E. A. Matter edd.), Kalamazoo, pp. 145–86. 41 pages Diebold, W. J. Word and image. An introduction to early medieval art. Oxford, pp. 1–44, 139–48. (53 pages)

Nielsen, H. B. ‘The Old Norse dedication homily’. In: Festschrift für Konstantin Reichhardt (Gellinek, C. ed.), pp. 127–134. (7 pages)

Anker, P. (1970). The art of Scandinavia, vol. I. London, pp. 201-25. (24 pages)

Hohler, E. B. (1989). ‘Norwegian stave church carving. An introduction’. Arte Medievale 1989, pp. 77–115. (38 pages)

Bergggren, L. (2002). ‘The export of limestone and limestone fonts from Gotland during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries’. In: Cogs, Cargoes and commerce. Maritime bulk trade in northern Europe 1150–1400 (Berggren, L. et al. edd.), Toronto, pp. 143–80. (37 pages)

Fuglesang, S.H. (2004). ‘Christian reliquaries and pagan idols’. In: Images of cult and devotion. (Kaspersen, S. ed.)K?benhavn, pp.7-32. (25 pages)

Blindheim, M. (2004). Gothic painted wooden sculpture in Norway 1220 – 1350. Oslo, pp. 17–24. (7 pages)

Source texts

Snorri Sturluson. Heimskringla. History of the kings of Norway (Hollander, L. ed. et transl.). Chapters 240–6. (5 pages)

Konungs skuggsjá. (The king’s mirror. Speculum regale). (Larsson,L. M. ed. et transl.). (1917). New York, pp. 162–258. (96 pages)

The Old Norse homily on the Dedication. (Turville-Petre, G. ed. et transl.) (1972). In: Viking Society for northern research. University College London 1972, pp. 79–101. (30 pages)

Total 900 pages

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