Handbook of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches

Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies: An Introduction
Part I: Disciplines, Traditions and Perspectives
Culture and Communication
I: 1 Rhetoric
I: 2 Philosophy and Theology
I: 3 History of Religion
I: 4 Mythology
I: 5 Folklore Studies
I: 6 Performance Studies
I: 7 Orality and Oral Theory
Material Culture
I: 8 Archaeology
I: 9 Late Iron Age Architecture
I: 10 Medieval Architecture
I: 11 Museology
Philology
I: 12 Law
I: 13 Linguistics and Philology
I: 14 Material Philology
I: 15 Runology
Aesthetics and Communication
I: 16 Literary Studies
I: 17 Trauma Studies
I: 18 Media Studies
I: 19 Spatial Studies
I: 20 Translation Studies
I: 21 Visual Culture
Constructing the Past
I: 22 History
I: 23 Medieval Latin
I: 24 Environmental Humanities
Neighbouring Disciplines
I: 25 Anglo-Saxon Studies
I: 26 Celtic Studies
I: 27 Sámi Studies
In-Dialogue
I: 28 Reception Studies
I: 29 Popular Culture
I: 30 Contemporary Popular Culture
Part II: Case Studies
Media: Mediality
II: 1 Orality
II: 2 Writing and the Book
II: 3 Manuscripts
II: 4 Skin
II: 5 Textual Performativity
II: 6 Text Editing
II: 7 Miracles
II: 8 Hagiography
Media: Visual modes
II: 9 Images
II: 10 Óðinn’s Ravens
II: 11 Ornamentation
II: 12 Animation
II: 13 Marian Representations
Media: Narrating the past
II: 14 Dialogues with the Past
II: 15 Trauma
II: 16 Icelanders Abroad
II: 17 Folk Belief
II: 18 Emotions
II: 19 Remembering Gendered Vengeance
II: 20 Remembering the Future
Space: Nature
II: 21 Nature and Mythology
II: 22 Climate and Weather
II: 23 Skyscape
Space: Landscape
II: 24 Onomastics
II: 25 Cartography
II: 26 Diaspora
II: 27 Pilgrimage
II: 28 Pilgrimage – Gotland
II: 29 Landscape and Mounds
II: 30 Saga Burial Mounds
II: 31 Sites
II: 32 Memorial Landscapes
Action: Using specialist knowledge
II: 33 Skalds
II: 34 Kennings
II: 35 Charm Workers
II: 36 Mental Maps
II: 37 Mnemonic Methods
Action: Performing commemoration
II: 38 Ritual
II: 39 Ritual Lament
II: 40 Memorial Toasts
II: 41 Women and Remembrance Practices
II: 42 Donation Culture
II: 43 Chain Dancing
II: 44 Neo-Paganism
Power: Designing beginnnings
II: 45 Origins
II: 46 Genealogies
II: 47 Religion and Gender
II: 48 Strategies of Remembering
II: 49 Remembering Origins
Power: National memories
II: 50 Danish Perspectives
II: 51 Danish Perspectives – N.F.S. Grundtvig
II: 52 Faroese Perspectives
II: 53 Greenlandic Perspectives
II: 54 Icelandic Perspectives
II: 55 Norwegian Perspectives
II: 56 Norwegian Perspectives – Heimskringla
II: 57 Swedish Perspectives
II: 58 Swedish Perspectives
II: 59 Balto-Finnic Perspectives
Power: Envisioning the northern past
II: 60 Canadian Perspectives
II: 61 U.S. Perspectives
II: 62 North American Perspectives – Suggested Runic Monuments
II: 63 Irish Perspectives
II: 64 British Perspectives
II: 65 The Northern Isles
II: 66 French Perspectives
II: 67 German Perspectives
II: 68 Polish Perspectives
II: 69 Russian Perspectives
II: 70 Russian Perspectives – Viking
Part III: Texts and Images
Einleitung
Remembering the Past and Foreseeing the Future: Mnemonic genres and classical Old Norse memory texts
Media of Memory and Forgetting: Oral and written transmission of memories in prologues and colophones
Media of Memory and Forgetting: Figures of remembering and forgetting
Memory in Action: Memory strategies and memory scenes in sagas, poetry, laws, and theological and historical texts
Runic Inscriptions
Colour Plates
Select Bibliography of Pre-Modern Nordic Memory Studies
Contributors
Index