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Imagining Universal Government At The Edge Of The World: Institutional Forms In Norse Bishops’ Lives

dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Joel
dc.contributor.chairFalk,Oren
dc.contributor.committeeMemberGalloway,Andrew Scott
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHyams,Paul R
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCorpis,Duane Joseph
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-15T18:11:14Z
dc.date.available2023-08-16T06:00:38Z
dc.date.issued2015-08-17
dc.description.abstractThe thirteenth and fourteenth centuries witnessed the dramatic growth of a legal and governmental apparatus centered at the papal court, as well as the widespread use of document-based forms of administration throughout Christendom. This project examines some of the ways in which writers and communities on the northern periphery of medieval Europe recruited, refashioned, and repurposed the legal principles and official documents of the universal Church for their own ends. Focusing specifically on a group of medieval Icelandic texts known as the bishops' sagas, it demonstrates how Norse clerics deployed fictitious papal documents and imagined canonical-legal procedures in order to legitimize some of the thoroughly abnormal practices of Iceland's native bishops.
dc.identifier.otherbibid: 9333153
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/41104
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.titleImagining Universal Government At The Edge Of The World: Institutional Forms In Norse Bishops’ Lives
dc.typedissertation or thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineMedieval Studies
thesis.degree.grantorCornell University
thesis.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy
thesis.degree.namePh. D., Medieval Studies

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