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With its expanding legal system and its burgeoning throngs of lawyers, legates, and documents, the papacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has often been credited with spearheading a governmental revolution that molded the high medieval church into an increasingly disciplined, uniform, and machine-like institution. Reimagining Christendom offers a fresh appraisal of these developments from a surprising and distinctive vantage point. Tracing the web of textual ties that connected the northern fringes of Europe to the Roman see, Joel D. Anderson explores the ways in which Norse writers recruited, refashioned, and repurposed the legal principles and official documents of the Roman church for their own ends.Drawing on little-known vernacular sagas, Reimagining Christendom is populated with tales of married bishops, fictitious and forged papal bulls, and imagined canon law proceedings. These narratives, Anderson argues, demonstrate how Norse writers adapted and reconfigured the institutional power of the church in order to legitimize some of the thoroughly abnormal practices of their native bishops. In the process, Icelandic clerics constructed their own visions of ecclesiastical order—visions that underscore the thoroughly malleable character of the Roman church’s text-based government and that articulate diverse ways of belonging to the far-flung imagined community of high medieval Christendom.

HISTORY / Medieval. --- Catholicism. --- Christendom. --- Christianization. --- High Middle Ages. --- Iceland. --- Norway. --- Old Norse. --- Roman church. --- Scandinavian studies. --- bishops. --- canon law. --- ecclesiastical culture. --- imagined communities. --- literacy. --- medieval. --- papal bull. --- revisionist history. --- sagas. --- saints. --- thirteenth fourteenth century. --- vernacular.

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Culte imperial romain --- Emperor worship [Roman ] --- Keizercultus [Romeinse ] --- Christianity and the arts --- Church and state --- Art and state --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Church history --- History --- Constantine --- Contributions in christianization of artistic representation of the Emperor --- Rome --- Antiquities --- 27 "03" --- -Christianity and the arts --- -Church and state --- -Excavations (Archaeology) --- -Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Christianity and state --- Separation of church and state --- State and church --- State, The --- Arts and Christianity --- Arts --- Art --- Politics and art --- State and art --- Art and society --- Cultural policy --- Education and state --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03" --- Government policy --- Constantine I, Emperor of Rome --- -Contributions in christianization of artistic representation of the Emperor --- Antiquities. --- -27 "03" --- -Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03" --- -Art and state --- Archaeological digs --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Constantijn, --- Constantin, --- Constantin --- Constantine, --- Constantino --- Constantinus Flavius Valerius Aurelius, --- Constantinus --- Constantinus, --- Costantino --- Costantino, --- Flaviĭ Valeriĭ Avreliĭ Konstantin, --- Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus, --- Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus, --- Flavius Valerius Constantinus, --- Konstantin, --- Konstantin --- Kōnstantinos, --- Kōnstantinos --- Konstantyn, --- Kostandianos --- Κωνσταντίνος, --- Флавий Валерий Аврелий Константин, --- Константин --- Константин, --- Flavije Valerije Konstantin --- Emperors --- Portraits --- Constantine I --- Constantine the Great, 306-337 --- 4th century --- Christianity and the arts - Rome --- Church and state - Rome - History --- Art and state - Rome - History --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Rome --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Constantine - I, - Emperor of Rome, - d. 337 - Contributions in christianization of artistic representation of the Emperor --- Rome - History - Constantine I, the Great, 306-337 --- Rome - Antiquities --- Constantine - I, - Emperor of Rome, - d. 337

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This book reevaluates our conception of the Christianization of Scandinavia in the Early Middle Ages in the context of Adam of Bremen's history.

Historiography --- Conversion --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Christianity --- Criticism --- Vikings --- 27 <48> --- 948 <093> --- 936.8 --- 936.8 Geschiedenis van de Scandinaviërs, de Noormannen en de Vikings --- Geschiedenis van de Scandinaviërs, de Noormannen en de Vikings --- 948 <093> Geschiedenis van Scandinavië--Historische bronnen --- Geschiedenis van Scandinavië--Historische bronnen --- 27 <48> Histoire de l'Eglise--Skandinavië --- 27 <48> Kerkgeschiedenis--Skandinavië --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Skandinavië --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Skandinavië --- Northmen --- Religious life --- Adam, --- Adam --- Adam Bremenskiĭ, --- Adamo, --- Adamus Bremensis, --- Bremen, --- Historiography. --- Adam of Bremen. --- Christianization of Scandinavia. --- Gesta Hammaburgensis. --- conversion process. --- medieval Scandinavia. --- Religious life.

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Nearly all recent examinations of Icelandic (and Scandinavian) folklore from the nineteenth century and earlier have concerned themselves with the origins and production of folktales rather than with the cultural implications of their content. This volume extends those discussions by offering an interdisciplinary methodology that weaves together the literature, religious and political history, and other cultural phenomena that have impacted folk narratives as evidence of the emergent cultural memory of a society undergoing the religious developments of Christianization and Reformation. Iceland's uncommon proclivity towards storytelling, its robust tradition of medieval manuscripts, and the "re-oralization" of those narratives after the medieval period, create a body of folktales and legends that have encoded a hidden account of how orthodox and heterodox beliefs (sometimes pagan in origin) intermingled as Christianity, and later Reformation, spread through the North. This volume unlocks that secret story by placing Icelandic folktales in a context of religious doctrine, social history, and Old Norse sagas and poetry. The analysis herein reveals a cultural memory of belief.

Tradition. --- Kollektives Gedächtnis. --- Island. --- Aisland --- Aisland ka Fasojamana --- Aisurando --- Cynewīse Īslandes --- Eisland --- Gweriniaeth Gwlad yr Iâ --- Gwlad yr Iâ --- Ísland --- Islanda --- Islande --- Islandi --- Islandia --- Islandii︠a︡ --- İslandiya --- Islandska --- Islandya --- Islandyi︠a︡ --- Islėnd --- Iylanda --- Lýðveldið Ísland --- Peng-tē --- Peng-tē Kiōng-hô-kok --- Republic of Iceland --- Rèpublica d'Islande --- Republica Islanda --- Republiek van Ysland --- Republik Island --- Republika Islandii︠a︡ --- Rėspublika Islandyi︠a︡ --- Tin Bikéyah --- Tin Kéyah --- Ysland --- Рэспубліка Ісландыя --- Република Исландия --- Исланд --- Исланди --- Исландия --- Ислэнд --- Ісландыя --- アイスランド --- Icelandic Reformation. --- Icelandic folktales. --- Old Norse Christianization. --- Scandinavian folklore. --- cultural memory. --- Folklore --- Tales --- Reformation --- Christianity --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Folklore. --- Iceland --- Social life and customs. --- Religions --- Church history --- Protestant Reformation --- Counter-Reformation --- Protestantism --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- Folk beliefs --- Folk-lore --- Traditions --- Ethnology --- Manners and customs --- Material culture --- Mythology --- Oral tradition --- Storytelling --- History

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This remarkable group of essays describes the "culture wars" that consolidated a new, secular ethos in mid-twentieth-century American academia and generated the fresh energies needed for a wide range of scientific and cultural enterprises. Focusing on the decades from the 1930s through the 1960s, David Hollinger discusses the scientists, social scientists, philosophers, and historians who fought the Christian biases that had kept Jews from fully participating in American intellectual life. Today social critics take for granted the comparatively open outlook developed by these men (and men they were, mostly), and charge that their cosmopolitanism was not sufficiently multicultural. Yet Hollinger shows that the liberal cosmopolitans of the mid-century generation defined themselves against the realities of their own time: McCarthyism, Nazi and Communist doctrines, a legacy of anti-Semitic "as, and both Protestant and Catholic versions of the notion of a "Christian America." The victory of liberal cosmopolitans was so sweeping by the 1960s that it has become easy to forget the strength of the enemies they fought.Most books addressing the emergence of Jewish intellectuals celebrate an illustrious cohort of literary figures based in New York City. But the pieces collected here explore the long-postponed acceptance of Jewish immigrants in a variety of settings, especially the social science and humanities faculties of major universities scattered across the country. Hollinger acknowledges the limited, rather parochial sense of "mankind" that informed some mid-century thinking, but he also inspires in the reader an appreciation for the integrationist aspirations of a society truly striving toward equality. His cast of characters includes Vannevar Bush, James B. Conant, Richard Hofstadter, Robert K. Merton, Lionel Trilling, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Secularism --- Science --- Jews --- History --- History. --- Intellectual life. --- United States. --- United States --- United States --- Ethnic relations. --- Intellectual life --- Academic freedom, disputes over. --- African-Americans. --- Anderson, Sherwood. --- Anti-Semitism. --- Asian-Americans. --- Benedict, Ruth. --- Blumenberg, Hans. --- Boulding, Kenneth. --- Bush, Vannevar. --- Catholics and Catholicism. --- Coffin, Henry Sloan. --- Cook, William W. --- Cosmopolitanism. --- Cowley, Malcolm. --- Davis, Chandler. --- De-Christianization. --- Dos Passos, John. --- Edel, Abraham. --- Enlightenment, traditions of. --- Ethical Culture Society. --- Fairchild, Harold Pratt. --- Feminism. --- Foucault, Michel. --- Frankfurter, Felix. --- Gadamer, Hans-Georg. --- Haber, William. --- Herskovitz, Melville. --- Hiss, Alger. --- Hook, Sidney. --- Immigration. --- Irvine, James. --- Judaism. --- Kaempffert, Waldemar. --- Klein, Lawrence. --- Lazarsfeld, Paul. --- Lippmann, Walter. --- Markert, Clement. --- Miller, Warren. --- Nashville Agrarians. --- National Science Foundation. --- Noyes, Alfred. --- Pluralism, academic. --- Pragmatism. --- Price, Derek. --- Reichenbach, Hans. --- Schleiermacher, Freidrich. --- Shils, Edward. --- Spingarn, Joel. --- Terman, Lewis. --- Tyndall, John. --- Universalism. --- Vetter, Jan.