In Iceland, as elsewhere in Europe, texts and books were written in Latin during ... He scoured the market, almost draining Iceland of medieval literature, and built a large collection of handwritten ...

Medieval Europe’s diverse regional cultures were balanced by a conscious attempt to create a unified view of the world that embraced religious and social ideals, Latin and vernacular literature, and ...

The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature.

Representations of feeling in medieval literature are varied and complex. This new collection of essays demonstrates that the history of emotions and affect theory are similarly insufficient for ...

This history of the early European middle ages combines the rich literature of women's history with original ... and the written records of medieval men. "(There is) rich detail and complexity of the ...

The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women. This volume, an amazing act of historical recovery and reconstruction, offers a comprehensive examination of ...

You will learn about the different written sources and what they can teach us about pre-Christian religion in northern Europe in the Viking Age ... literary representation of Old Norse myths in ...