Royal Sanctity and the Making of History in High Medieval Scandinavia

Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of historical and political myth-making via the concept of royal sanctity in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Nordic history writing.In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, writers working in Latin and vernacular genres, from the chronicle and saints' lives to the saga, crafted expansive histories of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. At the centre of their narrat...