Of Chronicles and Kings: National Saints and the Emergence of Nation States in the High Middle Ages
This volume collects the proceedings of a symposium on the manuscript Kiel, University Library S. H. 8 A. 80, which contains the earliest copy of the so-called “Roskilde Chronicle” as well as the complete monastic Offices and Masses of the Danish saint Knud Lavard. Thirteen scholars offer a variety of analyses of the manuscript, including studies of the crusades and crusaders in the liturgy, kingship and sanctity in the lives of British and Scandinavian saints, and the writing of patriotic history.
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Of Chronicles and Kings: National Saints and the Emergence of Nation States in the High Middle Ages
This volume collects the proceedings of a symposium on the manuscript Kiel, University Library S. H. 8 A. 80, which contains the earliest copy of the so-called “Roskilde Chronicle” as well as the complete monastic Offices and Masses of the Danish saint Knud Lavard. Thirteen scholars offer a variety of analyses of the manuscript, including studies of the crusades and crusaders in the liturgy, kingship and sanctity in the lives of British and Scandinavian saints, and the writing of patriotic history.
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Of Chronicles and Kings: National Saints and the Emergence of Nation States in the High Middle Ages

Of Chronicles and Kings: National Saints and the Emergence of Nation States in the High Middle Ages

Of Chronicles and Kings: National Saints and the Emergence of Nation States in the High Middle Ages

Of Chronicles and Kings: National Saints and the Emergence of Nation States in the High Middle Ages

Overview

This volume collects the proceedings of a symposium on the manuscript Kiel, University Library S. H. 8 A. 80, which contains the earliest copy of the so-called “Roskilde Chronicle” as well as the complete monastic Offices and Masses of the Danish saint Knud Lavard. Thirteen scholars offer a variety of analyses of the manuscript, including studies of the crusades and crusaders in the liturgy, kingship and sanctity in the lives of British and Scandinavian saints, and the writing of patriotic history.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788763542609
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Publication date: 03/15/2016
Series: Danish Humanist Texts and Studies
Pages: 366
Product dimensions: 6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John Bergsagel is emeritus professor of musicology at the University of Copenhagen.



Thomas Riis is emeritus professor of regional history at the University of Kiel, Germany. 


David Hiley is emeritus professor of musicology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. 

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

The Difficulty of Composing Patriotic History in the Twelfth Century: An Essay on Essays Eric Christiansen 11

"Only through time time is conquered": Liturgy History and the Timeless Aspirations of the Temporal Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn 23

Creating a Crusader Saint: Canute Lavard and Others of that Ilk Kurt Villads Jensen 51

Kanute, cuius est Dacia? Knud Lavard, dux danorum: Murdered or Martyred? John Bergsagel 73

The Significance of 25 June, 1170 Thomas Riis 91

Knes Kanutus: Knud Lavard's Political Project John H. Lind 103

The Image of St Knud Lavard in his Liturgical Offices and its Historical Impact Nils Holger Petersen 129

Kingship and Sanctity in the Historia in Honour of St Canutus Rex Roman Hankeln 159

Martyr preciose, miles Christi: St Erik in Chant and Legend Ann-Marie Nilsson 193

The Liturgical Commemoration of Thomas of Canterbury in Scandinavia: The First Thirty Years, 1173-1203 John Toy 223

Gens laudum titulis concrepet Anglica: The Proper Office for St Oswim King of Deira David Hiley 251

Life, Legend and Liturgy: The Case of St Mildred John Caldwell 271

"Last Man Standing": St David of Menevia Owain Tudor Edwards 293

Abstracts 321

Notes on Contributors 331

Appendix: Programme of the Symposium's Closing Concert

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