6 Flexibility, Predictability, Standardization: The Difficult Art of Creating Stable Selves

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures IX
5. List of Tables XI
6. 1 Introduction to Standardization in the Middle Ages 1
7. Part 1: Rhythms
8. 2 Raising Standards 21
9. 3 Penning the Standard: Norms, Conventions, and Usage in the Scandinavian Middle Ages 39
10. 4 Standardizing Violence in Norwegian Medieval Laws 63
11. 5 Parish sizes in Hólar bishopric in the Middle Ages 85
12. Part 2: Embodiment
13. 6 Flexibility, Predictability, Standardization: The Difficult Art of Creating Stable Selves 109
14. 7 Setting the Standard: Devotional Measures in the Medieval North 135
15. 8 The Soft Standards of Liturgical Sensescapes: Edifying Cistercians in the North 167
16. 9 Standardization of Ritual Offerings: The Eucharist, Human Sacrifice and Monetization 201
17. 10 Skaldic Poetry – Encrypted Communication 229
18. Index 251