RE:writing

Medial perspectives on textual culture in the Icelandic Middle Ages

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2018
Chronos (Verlag)
978-3-0340-1029-0 (ISBN)

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Among the texts examined are Sturlunga saga, a narrative cycle depicting the bitter feuding preceding Iceland’s loss of independence in 1262/4; Hauksbók or 'Haukr’s Book', a manuscript 'micro-library', containing among other things a history of the Christianisation of Iceland, narratives about legendary Vikings, the story of Troy, and computistical material; Víglundar saga, an exemplary romance in saga form; grammatical treatises in which native poetry is analysed in terms of classical rhetoric; and a tiny sixteenth-century manuscript of the vita of St Margaret, written as an amulet for the scribe’s pregnant daughter. Showcasing medially-focused responses to a wide range of medieval writing and textuality, the collection demonstrates the promise of a medial approach to Iceland’s extraordinarily rich and long-lived textual culture.

Kate Heslop, Jürg Glauser
Introduction: Medial perspectives on textual culture in the Icelandic Middle Ages
S. 9 – 62
Kate Heslop
Talking heads: The mediality of Mímir
S. 63 – 84
Judy Quinn
Looking ahead to what is long past: the mediality of Jóreiðr’s dreaming in Sturlunga saga
S. 85 – 108
Else Mundal
To what degree did written texts change oral performance?
S. 109 – 120
Karl G. Johansson
Compilations, collections and composite manuscripts
Some notes on the manuscript Hauksbók
S. 121 – 142
Kevin Müller
The terminology of reading and writing in Sturlunga saga
S. 143 – 164
Lena Rohrbach
The written legacy of the Sturlung age – Reflections on a media change
S. 165 – 180
Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
Saints and sinners. Aspects of the production and use of manuscripts in Iceland 1300–1600
S. 181 – 194
Guðvarður Már Gunnlaugsson
The speed of the scribes: how fast could Flateyjarbók have been written?
S. 195 – 226
Margaret Clunies Ross
The Fourth Grammatical Treatise as medial poetics
S. 227 – 242
Jonas Wellendorf
Virtues and vices: The Fourth Grammatical Treatise
S. 243 – 264
Russell Poole
Conspicuous mediality in a medieval poem: the case of Merlínússpá
S. 265 – 284
Gísli Sigurðsson
Njáls saga and its listeners’ assumed knowledge: applying notions of mediality to a medieval text
S. 285 – 294
Ellen E. Peters
Islendingasaga – couple romance – exemplum: Víglundar saga and the mediality of the söguöld
S. 295 – 325

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2018
Reihe/Serie	Medienwandel - Medienwechsel - Medienwissen ; 29
Verlagsort	Zürich
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 225 mm
Gewicht	535 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Hauksbók • Sturlunga saga • Víglundar saga
ISBN-10	3-0340-1029-X / 303401029X
ISBN-13	978-3-0340-1029-0 / 9783034010290
Zustand	Neuware