Pensum/læringskrav

Books:

Hamilton, Bernard. Religion in the medieval West (2. Ed). London: Arnold, 2003. S. 1-156.

Weinstein, Donald & Rudolph M. Bell. Saints & society: the two worlds of western Christendom, 1000-1700. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. S. 1-250.

DuBois, Thomas A (Ed.). Sanctity in the North: Saints, Lives, and Cults in Medieval Scandinavia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. S. 65-99, 128-153, 241-270.

Articles:

The articles and chapters marked with * are available at Kopiutsalget/Akademika as a compendium. Articles marked with € are available online.

€ A History of Norway and The Passion and Miracles of the Blessed Óláfr. Ed. by Carl Phelpstead translated by Devra Kunin. London: 2001. S. 26-74.

* Antonsson, Haki. “Saints and Relics in early Christian Scandinavia”. Mediaeval Scandinavia 15 (2005): 51-80.

€ Antonsson, Haki. "Some Observations on Martyrdom in Post-Conversion Scandinavia". Saga-Book 28 (2004): 70-94.

€ Bagge, Sverre. "Warrior, King, and Saint: The Medieval Histories about St. Óláfr Haraldsson". The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 109 (2010): 281-321.

€ Caldwell, Christine. "Medieval Religious, Religions, Religion". History Compass 10 (2012): 334-352.

€ Ciklamini, Marlene."Sainthood in the Making: The Arduous Path of Guðmundr the Good, Iceland’s Uncanonized Saint". Alvíssmál 11 (2004): 55-74.

€ El-Haj, Abou. "The Audiences for the Medieval Cult of Saints". Gesta 30 (1991): 3-15.

€ Garipzanov, Ildar H. "Wandering Clerics and Mixed Rituals in the Early Christian North, c. 1000–c. 1150". The Journal of Ecclesiastical History 63 (2012): 1-17.

€ Hall, Mark A. "The cult of saints in medieval Perth: everyday ritual and the materiality of belief". Journal of Material Culture 16 (2011): 80-104.

* Helle, Knut (Ed.). The Cambridge History of Scandinavia. Cambridge: 2003. S. 184-220, 369-391, 421-462.

€ Lindow, John. "Norse Mythology and the Lives of the Saints." Scandinavian Studies 73 (2001): 437-456.

€ Mikaelsson, Lisbeth. "Locality and Myth: The Resacralization of Selja and the Cult of St. Sunniva". Numen 52 (2005): 191-225.

€ Oberlin, Adam. "Vita Sancti, Vita Regis: The Saintly King in Hakonar saga Hakonarsonar". Neophilologus  95, (2011): 313-328.

€ Óláfs saga helga (Story of St Olaf), ch. 228-251.

€ O’Hara, Alexander."Constructing a Saint: The Legend of St Sunniva in Twelfth-Century Norway". Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 5 (2009): 105–121.

* Ommundsen, Åslaug. “The cults of saints in Norway before 1200” i Antonsson, Haki and Garipzanov, Ildar H (red.): Saints and their lives on the periphery: veneration of saints in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe (c. 1000-1200). Turnhout: 2010. S. 67-91.

* Saga of Bishop Jón of Hólar, translated by Margaret Cormack, i Head, Thomas (red.): Medieval Hagiography. An Anthology.New York: 2000. S. 595-626.

* Sigurðsson, Jón Viðar. “Distribution of reliquaries and relics in the bishopric of Hólar, c. 1320” i Streeton, Nöelle Lynn Wenger and Kollandsrud, Kaja (red.): Paint and Piety: Collected Essays on Medieval Painting and Polychrome Sculpture . London: 2014. S. 67-74.

€ Smith, Julia. "Rulers and Relics c.750-c.950: Treasure on Earth, Treasure in Heaven". Past & Present 206 (2010): 73-96.

Whaley, Diana."Miracles in the Sagas of Bishops: Icelandic Variations on an International Theme". Collegium Medievale 7.2 (1994): 155-185. Vil være tilgjengelig i Fronter.

In total: 1056 pages