Name: The Reality of the Fantastic: The Magical, Political and Social Universe of Late Medieval Saga Manuscripts (Viking Collection Volume 23) (in English)
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Author: Hans Jacob Orning
ISBN: 9788776749354

portada The Reality of the Fantastic: The Magical, Political and Social Universe of Late Medieval Saga Manuscripts (Viking Collection Volume 23) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University Press Of Southern Denmark

Author

Hans Jacob Orning

Synopsis "The Reality of the Fantastic: The Magical, Political and Social Universe of Late Medieval Saga Manuscripts (Viking Collection Volume 23) (in English)"

The reality of the fantastic combines a 'new philological' close study of a fifteenth-century Icelandic manuscript compilation of fifteen fornaldarsogur and riddarasogur, AM 343a 4to, with an historically-based analysis of the manuscript's various contents, demonstrating how fictions that are in many respects non-realistic can be made to yield up insights into the real-world concerns and interests of a group of fifteenth-century Icelanders. Both the methodology of this study and its conclusions should interest readers from diverse fields, including literature, history and manuscript studies. (Series: The Viking Collection, Vol. 23) [Subject: Icelandic Studies, Medieval Studies, History, Literature, Literary Studies, Manuscript Studies]