Sverrir Jakobsson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1127365 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sverrir Jakobsson |
| NOMBRES | Sverrir |
| APELLIDO | Jakobsson |
| FIRMA | JAKOBSSON S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Iceland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0061-8874 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing
The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach Mongolia, Ibn Battuta's thirty years of voyaging to Africa and East Asia, or the arrival of European colonialism in the Americas. With a focus on medieval Europe, this is the first book to cover global medieval travel writing from Iceland to Indonesia, …
Magnus the Lawmender's Laws of the Land
This is the first English translation of Magnus the Lawmender's law code from 1274 which was one of the first laws in Europe composed for a whole kingdom. The edition has the stated intention to allow students and scholars to interpret, compare, and add their perspectives to this crucial source to European legal history. The Laws of the Land (Landslög) was one of the very few law books issued in the Middle Ages which regulated a whole kingdom. It…
Reimagining Christendom
Jónsbók and the Introduction of Royal Government in Iceland
In the thirteenth century, Iceland was incorporated into the kingdom of Norway after many centuries of autonomy. This involved three distinct changes to the status of Iceland. The second was a pledge to pay taxes to support the government of Iceland which was finalized in 1264. The third was the change of the laws of Iceland, to bring them in line with the laws of the Norwegian kingdom, which was finalized by the introduction of Jónsbók in 1281.1…
An Icelandic Literary Florilegium
A Cultural Revolution
This article argues that a systematic change was introduced into Icelandic society between 1096 and 1133. The main events concerning this change were the introduction of the tithe in 1096, the Icelandic Church changing allegiance from the archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen to a newly constituted archbishopric of Lund in 1104, the foundation of a new see at Hólar in 1106, the codification of Icelandic laws in 1118, and finally the establishment of Chri…
The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland
Education in Medieval Iceland has long been a contested topic. On one hand, the sheer volume of literary works created in Iceland between 1100 and 1400 reflects a high degree of literary education. In contrast, the sources about schools in Medieval Iceland are very scarce, and very few texts have survived in Latin, the common tongue of the educated European elite in this period. Thus, the question arises whether the learning of medieval Icelander…
Ryder Patzuk-Russell. The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland
Ryder Patzuk-Russell. The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland . Berlin: Medieval Institute Publications, 2021. Pp. 315. Education in Medieval Iceland has long been a contested topic. On one hand, the sheer volume of literary works created in Iceland between 1100 and 1400 reflects a high
Campbell, Gordon, Norse America
"Campbell, Gordon, Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth." History: Reviews of New Books, 50(2), pp. 30–31
All the King’s men. The incorporation of Iceland into the Norwegian Realm
It is a common supposition that Iceland became a part of Norway over a period of few years following 1262, that this was done through the adoption of a document known as The Old Covenant (ON. Gamli sattmali) and that the most important part of this transition was that the Icelanders now accepted the Norwegian king as their own king. Some of these statements must be subject to qualification. In fact, different parts of Iceland became subject to th…
Conversion and Cultural Memory in Medieval Iceland
Christianization was an important and traumatic event that became embedded in the cultural memory of Icelanders. Through the reconstruction of this event in historical narratives, there was an ongoing debate on the identity of Icelanders as a group as the cultural heritage of this group was institutionalized and cultivated by particular organizations and individuals. This is reflected in very different emphasis on individual agents in this proces…
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas
The Early Kings of Norway, the Issue of Agnatic Succession, and the Settlement of Iceland
The early Norwegian kings are scarcely attested in sources earlier than the twelfth century, in contrast to the rich and varied descriptions of them from twelfth- and thirteenth-century sources. It will be argued that the historical narrative of their reign had direct relevance for at least two contemporary issues during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. One was the precedence of sons of kings in the order of succession to the Norwegian thron…
Cross and Scepter
Cross and Scepter: Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation, by Sverre Bagge. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2014. vi, 325 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). This volume is intended to be a short, synthetic history of the introduction of Christianity and the formation of in Scandinavia as well as microhistory of state formation and cultural change throughout Latin Christendom in the High Middle Ages. author, Sverre Bagge,…
From Reciprocity to Manorialism
In this study, it is argued that Medieval Icelandic society fitted the ideal model of the peasant mode of production, as defined by Chris Wickham in the book Framing the Early Middle Ages. Until the 12th century, it seems that landed property was relatively evenly distributed amongst farmers in Iceland, at least when compared to the general situation in Europe. Leadership in society was also often based on factors other than wealth, as the local …
Vínland and Wishful Thinking
This article discusses the evidence for the journeys of several Norsemen to a place called Vínland around the year 1000. In hindsight, the stories of the unsuccessful attempt to settle Vínland have been enduringly linked to the consequent discoveries of the American continents, which occurred five centuries later. However, as there are no contemporary, or near-contemporary, written records of journeys to Vínland and the nearby islands, all recons…
Heaven is a Place on Earth
Research Article| April 01 2010 Heaven is a Place on Earth: Church and Sacred Space in Thirteenth-Century Iceland Sverrir Jakobsson Sverrir Jakobsson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2010) 82 (1): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/40920892 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sverrir Jakobsson; Heaven is a Place on Earth: Church and Sacred Spa…
Images of the North
This interdisciplinary volume seeks to examine and explore the various issues surrounding image construction, identity making and representations of the North, as well as the interconnectedness between those issues. The aim is to elucidate the multiple aspects of the idea of the North, both as a mythological space and a discursive system created and shaped by cultures outside the North as well as from within. The objective of the research project…
The Process of State-Formation in Medieval Iceland
In this article the process of Iceland becoming a part of the kingdom in Norway is analyzed in view of internal factors which lead to the consolidation of power and the creation of territorial states in the early thirteenth century. The church brought to Iceland a new agenda through its campaign for peace and social stability, but an unintentional consequence of the separation of secular and ecclesiastical power was that some families and regiona…
Studia Imagologica
Defining a Nation
L'A. analyse l'evolution des conceptions de la nation, de l'identite politique dans la litterature scandinave, au cours du Moyen Âge, plus particulierement entre le 9 e et le 14 e siecle. Il montre que la notion de nation est etroitement associee a celle de peuple. La litterature medievale en Suede, en Norvege et au Danemark revele un fort sentiment patriotique et une forte valorisation de l'identite ethnique scandinave
From Reciprocity to Manorialism
In this study, it is argued that Medieval Icelandic society fitted the ideal model of the peasant mode of production, as defined by Chris Wickham in the book Framing the Early Middle Ages. Until the 12th century, it seems that landed property was relatively evenly distributed amongst farmers in Iceland, at least when compared to the general situation in Europe. Leadership in society was also often based on factors other than wealth, as the local …
All the King’s men. The incorporation of Iceland into the Norwegian Realm
It is a common supposition that Iceland became a part of Norway over a period of few years following 1262, that this was done through the adoption of a document known as The Old Covenant (ON. Gamli sattmali) and that the most important part of this transition was that the Icelanders now accepted the Norwegian king as their own king. Some of these statements must be subject to qualification. In fact, different parts of Iceland became subject to th…
Vínland and Wishful Thinking
This article discusses the evidence for the journeys of several Norsemen to a place called Vínland around the year 1000. In hindsight, the stories of the unsuccessful attempt to settle Vínland have been enduringly linked to the consequent discoveries of the American continents, which occurred five centuries later. However, as there are no contemporary, or near-contemporary, written records of journeys to Vínland and the nearby islands, all recons…
Defining a Nation
L'A. analyse l'evolution des conceptions de la nation, de l'identite politique dans la litterature scandinave, au cours du Moyen Âge, plus particulierement entre le 9 e et le 14 e siecle. Il montre que la notion de nation est etroitement associee a celle de peuple. La litterature medievale en Suede, en Norvege et au Danemark revele un fort sentiment patriotique et une forte valorisation de l'identite ethnique scandinave
Heaven is a Place on Earth
Research Article| April 01 2010 Heaven is a Place on Earth: Church and Sacred Space in Thirteenth-Century Iceland Sverrir Jakobsson Sverrir Jakobsson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2010) 82 (1): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/40920892 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sverrir Jakobsson; Heaven is a Place on Earth: Church and Sacred Spa…
Conversion and Cultural Memory in Medieval Iceland
Christianization was an important and traumatic event that became embedded in the cultural memory of Icelanders. Through the reconstruction of this event in historical narratives, there was an ongoing debate on the identity of Icelanders as a group as the cultural heritage of this group was institutionalized and cultivated by particular organizations and individuals. This is reflected in very different emphasis on individual agents in this proces…
Defining a Nation
L'A. analyse l'evolution des conceptions de la nation, de l'identite politique dans la litterature scandinave, au cours du Moyen Âge, plus particulierement entre le 9 e et le 14 e siecle. Il montre que la notion de nation est etroitement associee a celle de peuple. La litterature medievale en Suede, en Norvege et au Danemark revele un fort sentiment patriotique et une forte valorisation de l'identite ethnique scandinave
Images of the North
This interdisciplinary volume seeks to examine and explore the various issues surrounding image construction, identity making and representations of the North, as well as the interconnectedness between those issues. The aim is to elucidate the multiple aspects of the idea of the North, both as a mythological space and a discursive system created and shaped by cultures outside the North as well as from within. The objective of the research project…
The Process of State-Formation in Medieval Iceland
In this article the process of Iceland becoming a part of the kingdom in Norway is analyzed in view of internal factors which lead to the consolidation of power and the creation of territorial states in the early thirteenth century. The church brought to Iceland a new agenda through its campaign for peace and social stability, but an unintentional consequence of the separation of secular and ecclesiastical power was that some families and regiona…
Studia Imagologica
Heaven is a Place on Earth
Research Article| April 01 2010 Heaven is a Place on Earth: Church and Sacred Space in Thirteenth-Century Iceland Sverrir Jakobsson Sverrir Jakobsson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scandinavian Studies (2010) 82 (1): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/40920892 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Sverrir Jakobsson; Heaven is a Place on Earth: Church and Sacred Spa…
Vínland and Wishful Thinking
This article discusses the evidence for the journeys of several Norsemen to a place called Vínland around the year 1000. In hindsight, the stories of the unsuccessful attempt to settle Vínland have been enduringly linked to the consequent discoveries of the American continents, which occurred five centuries later. However, as there are no contemporary, or near-contemporary, written records of journeys to Vínland and the nearby islands, all recons…
From Reciprocity to Manorialism
In this study, it is argued that Medieval Icelandic society fitted the ideal model of the peasant mode of production, as defined by Chris Wickham in the book Framing the Early Middle Ages. Until the 12th century, it seems that landed property was relatively evenly distributed amongst farmers in Iceland, at least when compared to the general situation in Europe. Leadership in society was also often based on factors other than wealth, as the local …
Cross and Scepter
Cross and Scepter: Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the Reformation, by Sverre Bagge. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2014. vi, 325 pp. $29.95 US (cloth). This volume is intended to be a short, synthetic history of the introduction of Christianity and the formation of in Scandinavia as well as microhistory of state formation and cultural change throughout Latin Christendom in the High Middle Ages. author, Sverre Bagge,…
The Early Kings of Norway, the Issue of Agnatic Succession, and the Settlement of Iceland
The early Norwegian kings are scarcely attested in sources earlier than the twelfth century, in contrast to the rich and varied descriptions of them from twelfth- and thirteenth-century sources. It will be argued that the historical narrative of their reign had direct relevance for at least two contemporary issues during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. One was the precedence of sons of kings in the order of succession to the Norwegian thron…
The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas
Conversion and Cultural Memory in Medieval Iceland
Christianization was an important and traumatic event that became embedded in the cultural memory of Icelanders. Through the reconstruction of this event in historical narratives, there was an ongoing debate on the identity of Icelanders as a group as the cultural heritage of this group was institutionalized and cultivated by particular organizations and individuals. This is reflected in very different emphasis on individual agents in this proces…
All the King’s men. The incorporation of Iceland into the Norwegian Realm
It is a common supposition that Iceland became a part of Norway over a period of few years following 1262, that this was done through the adoption of a document known as The Old Covenant (ON. Gamli sattmali) and that the most important part of this transition was that the Icelanders now accepted the Norwegian king as their own king. Some of these statements must be subject to qualification. In fact, different parts of Iceland became subject to th…
The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland
Education in Medieval Iceland has long been a contested topic. On one hand, the sheer volume of literary works created in Iceland between 1100 and 1400 reflects a high degree of literary education. In contrast, the sources about schools in Medieval Iceland are very scarce, and very few texts have survived in Latin, the common tongue of the educated European elite in this period. Thus, the question arises whether the learning of medieval Icelander…
Ryder Patzuk-Russell. The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland
Ryder Patzuk-Russell. The Development of Education in Medieval Iceland . Berlin: Medieval Institute Publications, 2021. Pp. 315. Education in Medieval Iceland has long been a contested topic. On one hand, the sheer volume of literary works created in Iceland between 1100 and 1400 reflects a high
Campbell, Gordon, Norse America
"Campbell, Gordon, Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth." History: Reviews of New Books, 50(2), pp. 30–31
Jónsbók and the Introduction of Royal Government in Iceland
In the thirteenth century, Iceland was incorporated into the kingdom of Norway after many centuries of autonomy. This involved three distinct changes to the status of Iceland. The second was a pledge to pay taxes to support the government of Iceland which was finalized in 1264. The third was the change of the laws of Iceland, to bring them in line with the laws of the Norwegian kingdom, which was finalized by the introduction of Jónsbók in 1281.1…
An Icelandic Literary Florilegium
A Cultural Revolution
This article argues that a systematic change was introduced into Icelandic society between 1096 and 1133. The main events concerning this change were the introduction of the tithe in 1096, the Icelandic Church changing allegiance from the archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen to a newly constituted archbishopric of Lund in 1104, the foundation of a new see at Hólar in 1106, the codification of Icelandic laws in 1118, and finally the establishment of Chri…
The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing
The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of voyaging, colonialism, and expansion: the Papal embassies that took over a year of overland travel to reach Mongolia, Ibn Battuta's thirty years of voyaging to Africa and East Asia, or the arrival of European colonialism in the Americas. With a focus on medieval Europe, this is the first book to cover global medieval travel writing from Iceland to Indonesia, …
Magnus the Lawmender's Laws of the Land
This is the first English translation of Magnus the Lawmender's law code from 1274 which was one of the first laws in Europe composed for a whole kingdom. The edition has the stated intention to allow students and scholars to interpret, compare, and add their perspectives to this crucial source to European legal history. The Laws of the Land (Landslög) was one of the very few law books issued in the Middle Ages which regulated a whole kingdom. It…
Reimagining Christendom
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