Jónsbók
Author | : Jana K. Schulman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jana K. Schulman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gunnar Karlsson |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780816635894 |
Iceland is unique among European societies in having been founded as late as the Viking Age and in having copious written and archaeological sources about its origin. Gunnar Karlsson, that country's premier historian, chronicles the age of the Sagas, consulting them to describe an era without a monarch or central authority. Equating this prosperous time with the golden age of antiquity in world history, Karlsson then marks a correspondence between the Dark Ages of Europe and Iceland's "dreary period", which started with the loss of political independence in the late thirteenth century and culminated with an epoch of poverty and humility, especially during the early Modern Age. Iceland's renaissance came about with the successful struggle for independence in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and with the industrial and technical modernization of the first half of the twentieth century. Karlsson describes the rise of nationalism as Iceland's mostly poor peasants set about breaking with Denmark, and he shows how Iceland in the twentieth century slowly caught up economically with its European neighbors.
Author | : Agnes Siggerour Arnorsdottir |
Publisher | : Aarhus Universitetsforlag |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 2010-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8779342051 |
Christianity changed the culture and society of Iceland, as it also did in other parts of Northern Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. One of the important areas of change involved the introduction of new rules on the legal requirements for marriage. Property and Virginity examines Icelandic law codes, marriage contracts, and other documents related to court proceedings. Based on extensive source material never researched before, this pioneer study explores the very gradual Christianization of marriage in Iceland. It shows that this process, which lasted for hundreds of years, had consequences for family and kinship politics, for inheritance and property transfer, and for gender relations. As canon law began to change the old ritual of betrothal, the virginal state of the woman entering marriage gained greater importance. At the same time, marriage in the Late Middle Ages continued to include many elements of its older understanding as a contract concerning property transfer between families. A new perception of gender relations also arose, whereby women became partners in the actual contract-making. The 'handshake' was now between the husband and wife, instead of between the father of the bride and her future husband. The rituals connected to the different bonds gained new meaning: marriage was no longer a financial matter alone, but also involved religious beliefs and a closer union of the spouses.
Author | : Phillip Pulsiano |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 838 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824047870 |
With full-page maps and supplementary photos, this encyclopedia covers every aspect of Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art.
Author | : Randi Bj W. Rdahl |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2011-05-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9004206132 |
Inspired by transnational research on medieval state formation, this book presents a comprehensive study of the political incorporation and subsequent judicial and administrative integration of Iceland, the Faroes, Shetland, and Orkney, into the Norwegian realm c. 1195-1397.
Author | : Elizabeth Walgenbach |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004461469 |
This book focuses on excommunication, outlawry, and the connections between them in medieval Icelandic legal and literary sources. It argues that outlawry was a punishment shaped by the conventions and structures of excommunication as it developed in canon law.
Author | : Dieter Strauch |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 925 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110250764 |
Medieval Nordic legal sources are to be found from Greenland, the Scandinavian countries to Russia. The acceptance of Christianity led to decisive changes in these legal sources, the polity, private law and everyday life. This volume considers the sources, explains how they came about and reviews their content and their further development until about AD 1500. It presents for the first time a consistent picture of these sources.
Author | : Lester B. Orfield |
Publisher | : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1584771801 |
A study in comparative law that examines the legal systems of Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden and the forces that influenced their development. According to Orfield, the Scandinavian states are a useful area for study as unique examples of law based largely on custom and usage that owe little to Anglo-American or Continental models.
Author | : Philip L. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2007-02-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139462903 |
This 2007 book analyzes how, why, and when pre-modern Europeans documented their marriages - through property deeds, marital settlements, dotal charters, church court depositions, wedding liturgies, and other indicia of marital consent. The authors consider both the function of documentation in the process of marrying and what the surviving documents say about pre-modern marriage and how people in the day understood it. Drawing on archival evidence from classical Rome, medieval France, England, Iceland, and Ireland, and Renaissance Florence, Douai, and Geneva, the volume provides a rich interdisciplinary analysis of the range of marital customs, laws, and practices in Western Christendom. The chapters include freshly translated specimen documents that bring the reader closer to the actual practice of marrying than the normative literature of pre-modern theology and canon law.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Icelandic literature |
ISBN | : |