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Kasper H. Andersen, Jeppe B chert Netterstr m, Lisbeth Imer, Bjorn Poulsen, Rikke Steenholt Olesen (eds)
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Urban Literacy in the Nordic Middle Ages
, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, xv + 465 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:46 b/w, 2 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503596747.
Summary This volume explores literacy in the medieval towns of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and aims to understand the extent to which these medieval urban centres constituted a driving force in the development of literacy in Nordic societies generally. As in other parts of Europe, two languages - Latin and the vernacular - were in use. However, the Nordic area is also characterised by its use of the runic alphabet, and thus two writing systems were also in use. Another characteristic of the North is its comparatively weak urbanization, especially in Finland, Sweden, and Norway. Literacy and the uses of writing in medieval towns of the North is approached from various angles of research, including history, archaeology, philology, and runology. The contributions cover topics related to urban literacy that include both case studies and general surveys of the dissemination of writing, all from a Northern perspective. The thematic chapters all present new sources and approaches that offer a new dimension both to the study of medieval urban literacy and also to Scandinavian studies. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Urban Literacy in the Nordic Middle Ages Kasper H. Andersen, Jeppe B chert Netterstr m, Lisbeth M. Imer, Bj rn Poulsen, Rikke Steenholt Olesen Runic Writing in Danish Medieval Towns Lisbeth M. Imer Medieval Runic Latin in an Urban Perspective Rikke Steenholt Olesen Roman-Script Epigraphy in Norwegian Towns Elise Kleivane "Fann ek bein..., I found a bone?": Runic Artefacts as Material Evidence of Writing in Medieval Norwegian Towns Kristel Zilmer (Il)literacy Reflected on Scandinavian Viking Coins Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson Medieval Literacy in Turku - Material and Linguistic Remains from a Multilingual Townscape Janne Harjula, Visa Immonen and Kirsi Salonen Searching for Urban Literacy in the Archaeological Record Morten S vs Civic Literacy in Late-Medieval Ribe Jeppe B chert Netterstr m Markers of Civic Literacy in Medieval Danish Towns Kasper H. Andersen Putting Town Life in Writing: Medieval Danish Town Scribes Bj rn Poulsen: Variance and Change in Civic Literacy in Late-Medieval Stockholm: The Liber Memorialis Theresia Pettersson The Dominican Order and Urban Literacy in Medieval Scandinavia Johnny Grandjean G gsig Jakobsen Lost Notes and Hidden Spells: Scraps of Worldly Literacy from the Choir Stalls in Lund Cathedral Andreas Manhag
Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity, Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North.
, Brepols, 2012 Hardback,VI 273 p., 39 b/w ill., 15 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9782503542942.
collection of nine essays deals with the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe. This volume examines the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe during the Viking Age and the High Middle Ages. The epigraphic material under scrutiny here originates from Scandinavia and North-West Russia ? two regions that were converted to Christianity around the turn of the first millennium. Besides traditional categories of epigraphic sources, such as monumental inscriptions on durable materials, the volume is concerned with more casual inscriptions on less permanent materials. The first part of the book discusses a form of monumental epigraphic literacy manifested on Scandinavian rune stones, with a particular focus on their Christian connections. The second part examines exchanges between Christian culture and ephemeral products of epigraphic literacy, as expressed through Scandinavian rune sticks, East Slavonic birchbark documents and church graffiti. The essays look beyond the traditional sphere of parchment literacy and the Christian discourse of manuscript sources in order to explore the role of epigraphic literacy in the written vernacular cultures of Scandinavia and North-West Russia. Table of Contents Epigraphic Literacy and the Communication of Christian Culture in Northern Europe KRISTEL ZILMER . Part I: Runic Literacy and Christian Connections in the Context of Scandinavian Rune Stones Clerical or Lay Literacy in Late Viking Age Uppland? The Evidence of Local Rune Carvers and Their Work MAGNUS KALLSTROM . Carving Technique and Runic Literacy. LAILA KITZLER AHFELDT , Christianity in Runes: Prayers in Scandinavian Rune Stone Inscriptions from the Viking Age and the Early Middle Ages, KRISTEL ZILMER , ?Dead in White Clothes?: Modes of Christian Expression on Viking Age Rune Stones in Present-Day Sweden, HENRIK WILLIAMS, Part II: Exchanges between Christian Culture and Practical Modes of Correspondence in Scandinavia and Northwestern Russia: Rune Sticks, Birchbark Documents and Church Graffiti, Pragmatic Runic Literacy in Scandinavia c. 800-1300: With a Particular Focus on the Bryggen Material MICHAEL SCHULTE How Christian Were the Norwegians in the High Middle Ages? The Runic Evidence TERJE SPURKLAND The Birchbark Documents in Time and Space ? Revisited JOS SCHAEKEN Birchbark Literacy and the Rise of Written Communication in Early Rus? ALEXEJ GIPPIUS Written Culture of Medieval Novgorod in the Light of Epigraphy TATJANA ROZHDESTVENSKAJA List of Contributors
Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North.<br>
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2012 Hardcover. VI 273 p., 39 b/w ill., 15 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English. Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503542942.
This collection of nine essays deals with the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe.<br>This volume examines the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe during the Viking Age and the High Middle Ages. The epigraphic material under scrutiny here originates from Scandinavia and North-West Russia ? two regions that were converted to Christianity around the turn of the first millennium. Besides traditional categories of epigraphic sources, such as monumental inscriptions on durable materials, the volume is concerned with more casual inscriptions on less permanent materials. The first part of the book discusses a form of monumental epigraphic literacy manifested on Scandinavian rune stones, with a particular focus on their Christian connections. The second part examines exchanges between Christian culture and ephemeral products of epigraphic literacy, as expressed through Scandinavian rune sticks, East Slavonic birchbark documents and church graffiti. The essays look beyond the traditional sphere of parchment literacy and the Christian discourse of manuscript sources in order to explore the role of epigraphic literacy in the written vernacular cultures of Scandinavia and North-West Russia.
Pragmatic Literacy and the Medieval Use of the Vernacular The Swedish Example.
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2009 Hardcover. XIV 250 p., 5 b/w ill. 23 colour ill., 2 b/w tables, 2 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Swedish, Old Swedish, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503527475.
Between 1150 and 1400 Sweden was transformed from a society which was predominantly reliant on oral communication into a society which increasingly deployed writing. Latin, the traditional language of government and records, was gradually replaced by vernacular Swedish. The watershed moment in this process was the drafting of national and town laws in the 1350s, an event which established Swedish as the language of the judiciary and judicial records. From this period written documentation was gradually integrated into legal procedure.Pragmatic Literacy argues that the Crown, the expanding bureaucracy, the editing of the laws in Swedish, and the laws? demands for written documentation in everyday transactions were the main driving forces behind the development in medieval Sweden of lay literacy for practical purposes. The book demonstrates how the early use of writing by the royal administration and the writing of provincial laws in Swedish created ?centres of literacy? from which literate ways of thinking and acting spread both geographically and socially. It further illustrates how literacy moved beyond the confines of the clerical elite, by exploring how different members of the laity adopted pragmatic literacy for private purposes. Pragmatic Literacy thus traces the history of pragmatic literacy in Sweden through the lens of the judicial and administrative archive.
Social Consequences of Literacy in Medieval Scandinavia
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2004 Hardcover. XVII 279 p., 40 b/w ill., 4 b/w line art, 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503514505.
Between 1000 and 1536 Scandinavia was transformed from a conglomerate of largely pre-state societies to societies with state governments. The state increasingly monopolised ?legitimate? violence. Church and state used literacy to strengthen social control in central and important areas: jurisdiction, religion and accounting. Written laws made social norms more precise and easier to change, a necessity in an increasingly complex society. The basic social transformations of the period cannot be attributed to increasing literacy alone, but the written word rendered them more peaceful and gradual, and strengthened social conformity and cohesion. Writing in Roman letters was introduced late to Scandinavia (ca. 1000 ad); consequently the transition from orality to literacy is better documented than in many other European societies. The rich saga literature from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries emerged at the time that administrative literacy was introduced. Until the fourteenth century, literacy was mainly promoted by church and state in their efforts to pacify and control society. Then the literate elites grew, encompassing ever larger groups of officials, clerks, merchants and artisans, many of whom were now educated in town schools. The resulting elite culture prepared the ground for the development of a proto-national identity.
