Saxo Grammaticus : : Hierocratical Conceptions and Danish Hegemony in the Thirteenth Century / / André Szczawlinska Muceniecks.
Denmark of the twelfth to thirteenth centuries was a place of transitions, and this volume analyzes that period through the lens of the ‹i›Gesta Danorum ‹/i›of Saxo Grammaticus and other sources. The ‹i›Gesta‹/i› defends not only hierocratic conceptions but the Danish hegemonic project in the Baltic...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leeds : : ARC Humanities Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | CARMEN monographs and studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Denmark and the Baltic in the Thirteenth Century
- Chapter 2. The Work
- Chapter 3. Political Conceptions
- Chapter 4. Euhemerism and the East in Saxo Grammaticus
- Chapter 5. Virtues and Values in Saxo Grammaticus: The Four Cardinal Virtues
- Chapter 6. The Thematic of the Counsellor
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1. List of the Kings in Books I-VIII of the Gesta Danorum
- Appendix 2. Rulers and Archbishops of Denmark in Relation to Events in the Baltic, the Empire, and the Papacy
- Appendix 3. Genealogy of the Valdemarian Kings
- Bibliography
- Indexes