ABSTRACT
Where medieval Denmark and Scandinavia as a whole has often been seen as a cultural backwater that passively and belatedly received cultural and political impulses from Western Europe, Professor Michael H. Gelting and scholars inspired by him have shown that the intellectual, religious and political elite of Denmark actively participated in the renaissance and reformation of the central and later medieval period. This work has wide ramifications for understanding developments in medieval Europe, but so far the discussion has taken place only in Danish-language publications. This anthology brings the latest research in Danish medieval history to a wider audience and integrates it with contemporary international discussions of the making of the European middle ages.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|65 pages
Religious Culture
chapter 4|16 pages
Motherhood as Emotion and Social Practice
chapter 5|16 pages
The Black Friars and the Black Death
part II|79 pages
Intellectual Culture
chapter 6|14 pages
Contacts between Denmark and Flanders in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
chapter 7|20 pages
Banking on – and with – the Victorines
chapter 8|28 pages
The Transformation of the Danish Language in the Central Middles Ages
chapter 9|16 pages
Two Journeys and One University
part III|79 pages
Legal Culture
chapter 10|26 pages
The Church Law of Scania on the Consecration of Churches and the Appointment of Parish Priests
chapter 11|20 pages
Dating the Laws of Medieval Denmark
chapter 13|20 pages
Border Warfare between King and Pope in Late Medieval Denmark
part IV|51 pages
Aristocratic and Court Culture