St. Canute Lavard around the Baltic Sea

Abstract

This chapter discusses the Baltic Sea-area manifestations of the cult of the Danish Royal saint, Canute the Duke, in Danish, Knud Lavard, during the Middle Ages. It also applies theories of cultural memory by Jan and Aleida Assmann in order to approach an understanding of how the cult of St. Canute was culturally re-functionalized in Denmark in the sixteenth century, but not in any similar way in other areas around the Baltic Sea.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelSaints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea : Identity, Literacy, and Communication in the Middle Ages
RedaktørerCarsten Selch Jensen, Tracey R. Sands, Nils Holger Petersen, Kurt Villads Jensen, Tuomas M.S. Lehtonen
Antal sider25
UdgivelsesstedKalamazoo
ForlagMedieval Institute Publications
Publikationsdato1 jan. 2018
Sider175-199
Kapitel8
ISBN (Trykt)9781580443234
ISBN (Elektronisk)9781580443241
StatusUdgivet - 1 jan. 2018
NavnStudies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Vol/bindLIV

Emneord

  • Det Teologiske Fakultet
  • saints' cult
  • Saints
  • Church history
  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet
  • Cultural Memory
  • Medieval History

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