Old icelandic literature and society
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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- Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780521631129
- ISBN10 0521631122
- Type Book
- Pages 336
- Published 2000
- Bookbinding Cloth
Sections
Medieval Literature EuropeanOld icelandic literature and society
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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109,25€
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Book Details
This book provides a comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature within its social context. An international team of specialists examines the ways in which the unique medieval social experiment in Iceland, a kingless society without an established authority structure, inspired a wealth of innovative writing composed in the Icelandic vernacular. The book shows how Icelanders explored their uniqueness through poetry, mythologies, metrical treatises, religious writing, and through saga, a new genre that textualized their history and incorporated oral traditions in a written form.