From Fist to Scepter: Authority in Norway in the Middle Ages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgements xv
5. Introduction: The Authority of the Written Word, the Sacred Object, and the Spoken Word: A Highly Contested Discourse in the Middle Ages 1
6. Authority and the Church
7. “But Our Customs are Older”: The Authority of Antiquity in Late Antique Debates (in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries C.E.) 27
8. A Divine Mandate: Pope Gregory VII’s Defense of Papal Authority 39
9. A Great Stirring of Hearts or Papal Inspiration? Contesting Popular Authority in the Preaching of the First Crusade 55
10. Fabricating Philosophical Authority in the Twelfth Century: The Liber Egerimion and the De septem septenis 69
11. Adapting Authority: The Harrowing of Hell on Two Romanesque Baptismal Fonts 89
12. Authority, Text, and Genre in Accounts of Diocesan Struggle: The Bishops of Bath and Glastonbury and the Uses of Cartulary Evidence 107
13. “What Jesus means is …”: The Dominican Order as Theological Authority for Laity and Clergy in Medieval Northern Europe 123
14. Predestination and the Two Cities: The Authority of Augustine and the Nature of the Church in Giles of Rome and John Wyclif 145
15. Secular Authority
16. From Fist to Scepter: Authority in Norway in the Middle Ages 161
17. “Je, aucteur de ce livre”: Authorial Persona and Authority in French Medieval Histories and Chronicles 183
18. Rituals for the Restless Dead: The Authority of the Deceased in Medieval Iceland 205
19. Marco Polo and John Mandeville: The Traveler as Authority Figure, the Real and the Imaginary 229
20. Motherhood as Authority in the Life of Queen Helen by Archbishop Daniel II 249
21. Symbols and Soldiers: English Royal Authority in Gascony, 1355–1356 267
22. Empowered Spouses: Matrimonial Legal Authority in Sweden 1350–1442 285
23. Contributors 307
24. Index 311