Sverre Bagge
Biographic Data
| ID | 2141293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sverre Bagge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sverre |
| FAMILY NAME | Bagge |
| SIGNATURE | BAGGE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1904 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Kongespeilet og lovrevisjonene på 1200-tallet
Artikkelen diskuterer forholdet mellom Kongespeilet og lovrevisjonene fra 1260 og utover. Tidligere forskning, inkludert min egen, har sett en nær sammenheng mellom disse to. Det er til en viss grad riktig, men der er også forskjeller. Kongespeilet ønsker en mer radikal revisjon enn det som ble resultatet. Forfatteren betrakter domsvirksomhet som kongens viktigste oppgave og går inn for utstrakt bruk av dødsstraff. Hans utgangspunkt for dette må …
Håkon og Skule
Iconoclasm – A Road to Modernization
My point of departure is a conflict over images in the churches in Bergen, Norway in the 1560s, around 30 years after the Reformation. This introduced a brief period of iconoclasm in Denmark–Norway, inspired by Reformed theology. Soon, however, mainstream Lutheranism took over and statues and pictures were reintroduced. The different views on images in the two Protestant confessions – Lutheranism and Calvinism – are, of course, well known, as are…
Håkon og Skule 1217–1240
Artikkelen diskuterer forholdet mellom Håkon Håkonsson og hans rival Skule fra valget av Håkon i 1217 til Skules opprør og fall 1239–40. Håkons saga, skrevet i 1260-årene, er nesten vår eneste kilde til dette. Selv om den er partisk til fordel for Håkon, er den relativt balansert og inneholder mye konkret informasjon, både fra skriftlige og muntlige kilder. Valget av Håkon i stedet for Skule i 1217 synes umiddelbart å være overraskende, ettersom …
Anne A. Latowsky, Emperor of the World
Le livre d’Anne A. Latowsky traite de l’Histoire imaginée, l’histoire de Charlemagne visitant Jérusalem et Constantinople, étant reconnu comme l’empereur du monde. Il s’inscrit donc dans une tendance marquée de la littérature contemporaine en retraçant les origines et le développement des mythes et des idéologies qui ont influencé la culture et la société médiévales. Le point de départ de A. A. Latowsky est le chap. 16 de la Vita Caroli Magni d’E…
History, Archaeology and Cultural Comparison
Ian Morris’s Why the West Rules – for Now (2010) is a brilliant book, dealing with Eurasian history from the first civilisations to the present. It takes an intermediate position in the famous debate about Europe and the rest of the world and European dominance during the last few centuries. Morris uses all kinds of sources. However, his general approach is staunchly materialistic: the motors of history are fear, sloth and greed. Cultural differe…
Social and Geographic Mobility in Medieval Norway
The kings’ travel patterns in thirteenth-century Norway raise the question of the relationship between geographic and social mobility. A clearer social hierarchy would reduce the king’s need for travelling and the introduction of permanent and professional administrators would mean that these people would visit the king rather than vice versa. Moreover, the king did not travel exclusively for political reasons, but also for hunting and other ente…
State Formation in Europe, 843–1789
State Formation in Europe, 843–1789 follows the formation and development of the European state from the division of the Carolingian Empire to the French Revolution. The book's primary focus is on Europe's patterns of internal and external development in comparison to political organization in other parts of the world. By analysing Europe as a single unit, rather than dividing it into nation states, it reveals the broader historical connections w…
State Formation in Europe, 843-1789
J ón V iðar S igurðsson . Viking Friendship
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson’s Viking Friendship opens with the story of a telephone call from the author’s daughter. She was facing an oral examination at school and fearing questions about the “society of kindred,” which formed part of her curriculum, because she knew it was a notion that her father had rejected. Fortunately, however, she was spared the agony of having to choose between her father and the established orthodoxy, as she was not asked abo…
Idoneität - Genealogie - Legitimation
Die Herausbildung einer Dynastie. Thronfolge in Norwegen bis 1260
Theodoricus Monachus
This volume presents the first comprehensive overview of the major early historical narratives created in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe between c. 1070 and c. 1200, with each chapter providing a short introduction to the narrative in question. Most chapters are written by established experts in their fields, who have published critical editions of the discussed narratives, their English translations, or analytical works dealing with …
Feudalism
"This up-to-date discussion takes as its starting point the challenge to the traditional notion of feudalism in the twenty-five years since the publication of Jean-Pierre Poly and Eric Bournazel's work on the 'mutation féodale' and Susan Reynolds's attack on the very idea of a feudal society in the Middle Ages. While these challenges have presented a new picture of Western Europe in the so-called feudal age, one more focused than the traditional …
Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy
This 2007 text is a comparative, analysis of one of the most fundamental stages in the formation of Europe. Leading scholars explore the role of the spread of Christianity and the formation of new principalities in the birth of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland and Rus' around the year 1000. Drawing on history, archaeology and art history, and emphasizing problems related to the sources and historiographical debates, they demonstr…
Aims and Means in the Inter‐nordic Conflicts 1302–1319
The paper deals with the conflicts from 1302–1319 between King Birger of Sweden and his two younger brothers, the Dukes Erik and Valdemar, which also involved the kings of the two other Nordic countries, King Erik Menved of Denmark on the side of his brother‐in‐law, King Birger, and King Håkon V of Norway, mostly in alliance with the Swedish dukes. It attempts to trace the main aims of the participants, which turn out to be consistent as well as …
Christianization and State Formation in Early Medieval Norway
The article deals with problems and directions of research in the study of the Christianization of Norway. While scholars from the 19th century onwards largely accepted the sagas' account of the Christianization as the work of two missionary kings in the late tenth and early 11th century, the recent trend has been in the direction of a long and gradual process of Christianization, starting in the late ninth or early tenth century. This interpreta…
The Transformation of Europe
The article examines Scandinavia’s role in the transformation of Europe in the Middle Ages. First, an important aspect of this transformation is the great expansion of Western Christendom from the tenth century onwards, which led to the establishment of new political entities rather than to an extension of polities in the “old” Europe. Thus, the expansion meant an important step in the direction of a characteristic European feature, a system of i…
The Transformation of Europe
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Medieval Encounters 10,1-3 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 “The Transformation of Europe as a Eurasian Phenomenon”, in this volume; cf. also his The First European Revolution, c. 970-1215 (Oxford, 2001). THE TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPE: THE ROLE OF SCANDINAVIA SVERRE BAGGE ABSTRACT The article examines Scandinavia’s role in the transformation of Europe in the Middle Ages. First, an important aspect of this…
Ideologies and mentalities
This chapter explains the treatment of mentality with respect to the monarchy and the church that were built up in Scandinavia in the high Middle Ages. In this way, it becomes possible to treat mentality in close connection with ideology. A main theme in most surveys of the Scandinavian countries until around 1300 is the growth of the state. The mental aspect of this development is illustrated clearly in The King's Mirror. The conflict between th…
The Structure of the Political Factions in the Internal Struggles of the Scandinavian Countries During the High Middle Ages
Medieval and renaissance historiography
(1997). Medieval and renaissance historiography: Break or continuity? The European Legacy: Vol. 2, The Individual in European Culture, pp. 1336-1371
The individual in the middle ages and the renaissance
Ideas and narrative in Otto of Freising's Gesta Frederici
This article discusses the inner coherence of Otto of Freising's Gesta Frederici and, by implication, the wider question of the ‘mode of perception’ in medieval historiography. Is there any connection between the philosophical and theological reflections expressed in digressions and explicit statements, and the apparently scattered and disconnected entries in his narrative? The answer to this question is positive. Gesta Frederici is carefully com…
Nationalism in Norway in the middle ages
Nationalism in Norway in the middle ages
Ideas and narrative in Otto of Freising's Gesta Frederici
This article discusses the inner coherence of Otto of Freising's Gesta Frederici and, by implication, the wider question of the ‘mode of perception’ in medieval historiography. Is there any connection between the philosophical and theological reflections expressed in digressions and explicit statements, and the apparently scattered and disconnected entries in his narrative? The answer to this question is positive. Gesta Frederici is carefully com…
Christianization and State Formation in Early Medieval Norway
The article deals with problems and directions of research in the study of the Christianization of Norway. While scholars from the 19th century onwards largely accepted the sagas' account of the Christianization as the work of two missionary kings in the late tenth and early 11th century, the recent trend has been in the direction of a long and gradual process of Christianization, starting in the late ninth or early tenth century. This interpreta…
The Structure of the Political Factions in the Internal Struggles of the Scandinavian Countries During the High Middle Ages
The autobiography of Abelard and medieval individualism
This article discusses Abelard's Historia Calamitatum in connection with the debate on ‘the individual’ or ‘individualism’ in the Middle Ages, which has been going on between adherents of ‘the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century’ and scholars placing the emergence of the modern individual in more recent periods. The conclusion largely supports the latter point of view. Abelard does not tell a continuous story of his life, he does not describe a co…
Nordic students at foreign universities until 1660
Theodoricus Monachus — clerical historiography in Twelfth‐century Norway
The Circumcision Ceremony Among the Naivasha Masai
The Circumcision Ceremony Among the Naivasha Masai
Nordic students at foreign universities until 1660
Theodoricus Monachus — clerical historiography in Twelfth‐century Norway
Society and Politics in Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla
Heimskringla is the best known and most important book of Old Norse kings' sagas. A medieval masterpiece, the collection was written by Snorri Sturluson in the first half of the thirteenth century. The sagas have been studied primarily as literary sources and chronicles of specific historical events, but Sverre Bagge, a noted historian, finds in Heimskringla something more: a brimming guidebook to the culture and of Icelandic society. What kind o…
The autobiography of Abelard and medieval individualism
This article discusses Abelard's Historia Calamitatum in connection with the debate on ‘the individual’ or ‘individualism’ in the Middle Ages, which has been going on between adherents of ‘the Renaissance of the Twelfth Century’ and scholars placing the emergence of the modern individual in more recent periods. The conclusion largely supports the latter point of view. Abelard does not tell a continuous story of his life, he does not describe a co…
Nationalism in Norway in the middle ages
Ideas and narrative in Otto of Freising's Gesta Frederici
This article discusses the inner coherence of Otto of Freising's Gesta Frederici and, by implication, the wider question of the ‘mode of perception’ in medieval historiography. Is there any connection between the philosophical and theological reflections expressed in digressions and explicit statements, and the apparently scattered and disconnected entries in his narrative? The answer to this question is positive. Gesta Frederici is carefully com…
Medieval and renaissance historiography
(1997). Medieval and renaissance historiography: Break or continuity? The European Legacy: Vol. 2, The Individual in European Culture, pp. 1336-1371
The individual in the middle ages and the renaissance
The Structure of the Political Factions in the Internal Struggles of the Scandinavian Countries During the High Middle Ages
Ideologies and mentalities
This chapter explains the treatment of mentality with respect to the monarchy and the church that were built up in Scandinavia in the high Middle Ages. In this way, it becomes possible to treat mentality in close connection with ideology. A main theme in most surveys of the Scandinavian countries until around 1300 is the growth of the state. The mental aspect of this development is illustrated clearly in The King's Mirror. The conflict between th…
The Transformation of Europe
The article examines Scandinavia’s role in the transformation of Europe in the Middle Ages. First, an important aspect of this transformation is the great expansion of Western Christendom from the tenth century onwards, which led to the establishment of new political entities rather than to an extension of polities in the “old” Europe. Thus, the expansion meant an important step in the direction of a characteristic European feature, a system of i…
The Transformation of Europe
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2004 Medieval Encounters 10,1-3 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 “The Transformation of Europe as a Eurasian Phenomenon”, in this volume; cf. also his The First European Revolution, c. 970-1215 (Oxford, 2001). THE TRANSFORMATION OF EUROPE: THE ROLE OF SCANDINAVIA SVERRE BAGGE ABSTRACT The article examines Scandinavia’s role in the transformation of Europe in the Middle Ages. First, an important aspect of this…
Christianization and State Formation in Early Medieval Norway
The article deals with problems and directions of research in the study of the Christianization of Norway. While scholars from the 19th century onwards largely accepted the sagas' account of the Christianization as the work of two missionary kings in the late tenth and early 11th century, the recent trend has been in the direction of a long and gradual process of Christianization, starting in the late ninth or early tenth century. This interpreta…
Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy
This 2007 text is a comparative, analysis of one of the most fundamental stages in the formation of Europe. Leading scholars explore the role of the spread of Christianity and the formation of new principalities in the birth of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland and Rus' around the year 1000. Drawing on history, archaeology and art history, and emphasizing problems related to the sources and historiographical debates, they demonstr…
Aims and Means in the Inter‐nordic Conflicts 1302–1319
The paper deals with the conflicts from 1302–1319 between King Birger of Sweden and his two younger brothers, the Dukes Erik and Valdemar, which also involved the kings of the two other Nordic countries, King Erik Menved of Denmark on the side of his brother‐in‐law, King Birger, and King Håkon V of Norway, mostly in alliance with the Swedish dukes. It attempts to trace the main aims of the participants, which turn out to be consistent as well as …
Theodoricus Monachus
This volume presents the first comprehensive overview of the major early historical narratives created in Northern, East-Central, and Eastern Europe between c. 1070 and c. 1200, with each chapter providing a short introduction to the narrative in question. Most chapters are written by established experts in their fields, who have published critical editions of the discussed narratives, their English translations, or analytical works dealing with …
Feudalism
"This up-to-date discussion takes as its starting point the challenge to the traditional notion of feudalism in the twenty-five years since the publication of Jean-Pierre Poly and Eric Bournazel's work on the 'mutation féodale' and Susan Reynolds's attack on the very idea of a feudal society in the Middle Ages. While these challenges have presented a new picture of Western Europe in the so-called feudal age, one more focused than the traditional …
Die Herausbildung einer Dynastie. Thronfolge in Norwegen bis 1260
Idoneität - Genealogie - Legitimation
J ón V iðar S igurðsson . Viking Friendship
Jón Viðar Sigurðsson’s Viking Friendship opens with the story of a telephone call from the author’s daughter. She was facing an oral examination at school and fearing questions about the “society of kindred,” which formed part of her curriculum, because she knew it was a notion that her father had rejected. Fortunately, however, she was spared the agony of having to choose between her father and the established orthodoxy, as she was not asked abo…
State Formation in Europe, 843–1789
State Formation in Europe, 843–1789 follows the formation and development of the European state from the division of the Carolingian Empire to the French Revolution. The book's primary focus is on Europe's patterns of internal and external development in comparison to political organization in other parts of the world. By analysing Europe as a single unit, rather than dividing it into nation states, it reveals the broader historical connections w…
State Formation in Europe, 843-1789
Håkon og Skule 1217–1240
Artikkelen diskuterer forholdet mellom Håkon Håkonsson og hans rival Skule fra valget av Håkon i 1217 til Skules opprør og fall 1239–40. Håkons saga, skrevet i 1260-årene, er nesten vår eneste kilde til dette. Selv om den er partisk til fordel for Håkon, er den relativt balansert og inneholder mye konkret informasjon, både fra skriftlige og muntlige kilder. Valget av Håkon i stedet for Skule i 1217 synes umiddelbart å være overraskende, ettersom …
Anne A. Latowsky, Emperor of the World
Le livre d’Anne A. Latowsky traite de l’Histoire imaginée, l’histoire de Charlemagne visitant Jérusalem et Constantinople, étant reconnu comme l’empereur du monde. Il s’inscrit donc dans une tendance marquée de la littérature contemporaine en retraçant les origines et le développement des mythes et des idéologies qui ont influencé la culture et la société médiévales. Le point de départ de A. A. Latowsky est le chap. 16 de la Vita Caroli Magni d’E…
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