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Constructing Episcopal Sainthood in Late Medieval Sweden : The Cases of Brynolphus Algoti and Nicolaus Hermanni
… Constructing Episcopal Sainthood in Late Medieval Sweden: The Cases of Brynolphus Algoti and Nicolaus Hermanni examines the canonization process cases of two medieval Swedish bishops, Brynolphus Algoti of Skara (ca. 1240–1317) and Nicolaus Hermanni of Linköping (1325/26–1391). The research …
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Retelling Conversion: The Making of Christian Histories of Sweden, c. 1100–1550
This dissertation explores how medieval Swedish writers understood early narratives of the Swedish conversion to Christianity, and how they used them to write and rewrite their Christian history despite — and frequently, in response to — their pagan past. This is taken as a starting point for a …
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The Matter of Gautland
The classification of late medieval literary cycles according to localised subject matter, such as the ‘Matter of France’, the ‘Matter of Britain’ and the ‘Matter of Rome’, has proven to be an enduring one in modern scholarship. This model has also been applied to Old Norse saga literature, …