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Introduction / Kerstin Hundahl and Lars Kjær -- PART I. RELIGIOUS CULTURE. The settlement of disputes by compromise according to some early Danish charters / Kim Esmark -- Byzantinizing crucifixes in central medieval Denmark : how, when and why / Ebbe Nyborg -- Motherhood as emotion and social practice : Mary and Anne as maternal models in medieval Iceland / Agnes S. Arnórsdóttir -- The Black Friars and the Black Death : effects of the plague on friars preachers in fourteenth-century northern Europe / Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen -- PART II. INTELLECTUAL CULTURE. Contacts between Denmark and Flanders in the eleventh and twelfth centuries : the tiniest of evidence / Steffen Harpsøe -- Banking on, and with, the Victorines : the strange case of Archbishop Eskil's lost deposit / Mia Münster-Swendsen -- The transformation of the Danish language in the central Middles Ages : a case of Europeanization? / Niels Houlberg Hansen -- Two journeys and one university : King Christian I and Queen Dorothea's journeys to Rome and the foundation of the University of Copenhagen / Carsten Jahnke -- PART III. LEGAL CULTURE. The church law of Scania on the consecration of churches and the appointment of parish priests : international canon law and that of Scania / Bertil Nilsson -- Dating the laws of medieval Denmark : studies of the manuscripts of the Danish church laws / Per Andersen -- Regional or central? : legislation and law in thirteenth-century Denmark / Helle Vogt -- Border warfare between king and pope in late medieval Denmark : a case study of royal politics towards ecclesiastical benefices and papal provisions c. 1350-1525 / Per Ingesman -- PART IV. ARISTOCRATIC AND COURT CULTURE. Apocalypse then? : the First Crusade, traumas of war and Thomas de Marle / Thomas Kristian Heebøll-Holm -- Runes, knives and Vikings : the Valdemarian kings and the Danish past in a comparative perspective / Lars Kjær -- Placing blame and creating legitimacy : the implications of Rügish involvement in the struggle over the succession amidst the Danish church strife c.1258-1260 / Kerstin Hundahl. |
