The pre-Christian religions of the North : research and reception /

This book reveals the various ways people have understood or reacted to Scandinavian paganism from the Middle Ages to today. Over more than a thousand years since pre-Christian religions were actively practiced, European, and later contemporary, society has developed a fascination with the beliefs o...

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Other Authors: Clunies Ross, Margaret (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]
Series:Pre-Christian religions of the North.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
505 0 |a Volume 1. From the Middle Ages to c. 1830 -- volume 2. From c. 1830 to the present. 
505 0 |a Volume 1. Pictured by the other : classical and early medieval perspectives on religions in the north / Henrik Janson -- Anglo-Saxon responses to Scandinavian myth and religion / Philip A. Shaw -- Finno-Ugric Neighbours / Thomas A. Dubois -- Celtic-Scandinavian contacts / Bernhard Maier -- The reception of early Nordic religions and myths in Old Rus' / Vladimir Ja. Petrukhin, Tatjana N. Jackson -- The reception in early Arabic writings / Jan Restö -- The learned prehistory and natural religions / Mats Malm -- The Tower of Babel and the diffusion of world languages and religions / Annette Lassen -- Demonism and the pre-Christian gods of Scandinavia / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Remnants of indigenous beliefs in the other world in saga literature / Armann Jakobsson -- The medieval reception of Eddic poetry with mythological subjects / Annette Lassen -- The reception in Skaldic poetry and Snorri Sturluson's Skáldskaparmál / Margaret Clunies Ross -- The reception in medieval historiography / Annette Lassen -- The reception in saga literature / Margaret Clunies Ross -- The humanist reception in Scandinavia / Mats Malm -- Icelandic humanism / Annette Lassen -- Myth and religion in the enlightenment and pre-romantic period / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Pre-Christian religions of the North and the political idea of liberty / Julia Zernack -- The new aesthetics and the concept of the sublime / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Dalin, Ramsay and the enlightened reaction to Rudbeckianism / Lars Lönnroth -- A key work for the reception history of Norse mythology and poetry : Paul Henri Mallet's History of the Danish Empire and its European impact / Julia Zernack -- Images and imageries of Norse mythology in German sentimentalism and romanticism : from Herder to Heine / Sergej Liamin -- Ewald's and Oehlenschläger's poetry inspired by old Norse myth / Lise Præstgaard Andersen -- Swedish romanticism and Gothicism : aesthetic synergies / Mats Malm -- The Norwegian reception during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Jan Ragnar Hagland -- Old Norse myths and Icelandic romanticism / Sveinn Yngviegilsson -- English romanticism and Norse mythology / Heather O'Donoghue -- The 'Nordic renaissance' in Russia and Poland / Julia Zernack -- The international reception of a seminal work : Baldrs draumar / Julia Zernack -- Early representations of old Nordic religions in drama / Terry Gunnell -- Painting and sculpture in Denmark / Bo Grandien -- Painting and sculpture in Sweden / Bo Grandien -- Painting and sculpture in Norway / Bo Grandien -- Painting and sculpture in Germany, c. 1750 to the early twentieth century / Sarah Timme -- The visual arts in Britain / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Enabling philology : essential preconditions for a scholarly reception of the pre-Christian religions of the north / Margaret Clunies Ross -- N. F. S. Grundtvig : The Æsir intoxication and Nordens Mytologi (1808) / Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen. 
505 0 |a Volume 2. N.F.S. Grundtvig's use of Norse mythology (1815-72) and its aftermath / Flemming Lundgreen-Nielsen -- Germany 1650-1860 / Christina Lee -- Finns, Sámi and Swedes / Thomas A. Dubois -- The character of the new, comparative scholarship / Margaret Clunies Ross -- The nineteenth-century emergence of Religionswissenschaft and its impact on the study of the pre-Christian religions of the North / Bernhard Maier -- The heavenly mountains of Asia : old Norse religion and comparative religion / Annette Lassen -- The comparative study of Celtic and Nordic religions / Bernhard Maier -- Nordic, Germanic, German : Jacob Grimm and the German appropriation of old Norse religion and myth / Simon Halink -- The rise of folklore studies / John Lindow -- Richard Wagner, the Ring and its influence / Edward R. Haymes -- Scandinavian myths in nineteenth-century opera and choral music / Barbara Eichner -- The music of Jón Leifs / Florian Heesch -- Theatre and performance (1830-2018) / Terry Gunnell, Sveinn Einarsson -- Literary modernism and old Norse myth / Katja Schulz -- Old Norse myth and Fìnnegans Wake / Christopher Black -- Old Norse mythology in Anglophone fantasy and science fiction from 1940 / Randi Eldevik -- Norse medievalism in children's literature in English / David Clark -- Norse mythology in Nordic children's literature 1970-2012 / Anne-Kari Skardhamar -- Nordic gods and popular culture / Jón Karl Helgason -- Norse myths in the visual arts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries : a short catalogue raisonné / Sarah Timme -- Old Norse mythology and heroic legend in politics, ideology and propaganda / Julia Zernack -- Germanic Neopaganism / Stefanie von Schnurbein -- On the concept of "Germanic" religion and myth / Julia Zernack -- Philological studies of the pre-Christian religions of the north from Árni Magnússon to the present / Annette Lassen -- The social turn : the pre-Christian religions of the north in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Margaret Clunies Ross -- Pre-Christian religions of the north : the reception now / Margaret Clunies Ross. 
520 |a This book reveals the various ways people have understood or reacted to Scandinavian paganism from the Middle Ages to today. Over more than a thousand years since pre-Christian religions were actively practiced, European, and later contemporary, society has developed a fascination with the beliefs of northern Europe before the arrival of Christianity, which have been the subject of a huge range of popular and scholarly theories, interpretations and uses. Indeed, the pre-Christian religions of the North have exerted a phenomenal influence on modern culture, appearing in everything from the names of days of the week to Hollywood blockbusters. Scholarly treatments have been hardly less varied. Theories, from the Middle Ages until today, have depicted these pre-Christian religious systems as dangerous illusions, the works of Satan, representatives of a lost proto-Indo-European religious culture, a form of "natural" religion and even as a system non-indigenous in origin, derived from cultures outside Europe. The "Research and Reception" strand of the "Pre-Christian Religions of the North" project establishes a definitive survey of the current and historical uses and interpretations of pre-Christian mythology and religious culture, tracing the many ways in which people both within and outside Scandinavia have understood and been influenced by these religions, from the Christian Middle Ages to contemporary media of all kinds. Volume I traces the reception down to the early nineteenth century, while volume II takes up the story from c.1830 down to the present day and the burgeoning of interest across a diversity of new as well as old media. 
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