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

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Clunies Ross, Margaret (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]
Series:Pre-Christian religions of the North.
Subjects:
Mythology, Norse.
Religion > Historiography.
Religion > History.
Europe, Northern > Religion.
Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1. From the Middle Ages to c. 1830
  • volume 2. From c. 1830 to the present.
  • 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.
  • 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.