Kathleen Self
Biographic Data
| ID | 2017166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Self |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Self |
| SIGNATURE | SELF K |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Lawrence University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Saints and Celebrities
This article offers a pedagogical approach to introducing undergraduate students to hagiology by comparing medieval sanctity to modern celebrity. The bodies of saints and celebrities are important loci for the transmission of sanctity or celebrity from a person to the public and for the continuity of identity. Examples include St. Faith, St. Cuthbert, Kim Kardashian, and Marilyn Monroe. Using a comparative method allows students who are non-relig…
Conversion as Speech Act: Medieval Icelandic and Modern Neopagan Conversion Narratives
Remembering our violent conversion: Conflict in the Icelandic conversion narrative
This article analyzes violent conflict in the medieval narratives of Iceland's conversion to Christianity, as told by the Icelanders themselves. The article considers physical and verbal aggression as interrelated forms of conflict connected in an economy of violent exchange. In the narratives, they are represented as attacks against material and symbolic resources. The competing pagans and Christians struggle to come out ahead as often as they c…
And Some Fell into Good Soil: A History of Christianity in Iceland. Michael Fell
Remembering our violent conversion: Conflict in the Icelandic conversion narrative
This article analyzes violent conflict in the medieval narratives of Iceland's conversion to Christianity, as told by the Icelanders themselves. The article considers physical and verbal aggression as interrelated forms of conflict connected in an economy of violent exchange. In the narratives, they are represented as attacks against material and symbolic resources. The competing pagans and Christians struggle to come out ahead as often as they c…
Conversion as Speech Act: Medieval Icelandic and Modern Neopagan Conversion Narratives
And Some Fell into Good Soil: A History of Christianity in Iceland. Michael Fell
Remembering our violent conversion: Conflict in the Icelandic conversion narrative
This article analyzes violent conflict in the medieval narratives of Iceland's conversion to Christianity, as told by the Icelanders themselves. The article considers physical and verbal aggression as interrelated forms of conflict connected in an economy of violent exchange. In the narratives, they are represented as attacks against material and symbolic resources. The competing pagans and Christians struggle to come out ahead as often as they c…
Conversion as Speech Act: Medieval Icelandic and Modern Neopagan Conversion Narratives
Saints and Celebrities
This article offers a pedagogical approach to introducing undergraduate students to hagiology by comparing medieval sanctity to modern celebrity. The bodies of saints and celebrities are important loci for the transmission of sanctity or celebrity from a person to the public and for the continuity of identity. Examples include St. Faith, St. Cuthbert, Kim Kardashian, and Marilyn Monroe. Using a comparative method allows students who are non-relig…
History (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Download (2 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (2 works) · Icelandic (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Medieval Literature and History (2 works)