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The Ethics of Empire in the Saga of Alexander the Great
David Ashurst
其他書名
A Study Based on MS AM 519a 4to
出版University of Iceland Press, 2009
主題History / Europe / MedievalLiterary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalLiterary Criticism / European / ScandinavianLiterary Criticism / Medieval
ISBN99795486149789979548614
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Lw3QSAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Alexander's saga, the Saga of Alexander the Great, was most probably presented by an Icelander as a gift to the joint kings of Norway in the winter of 1262-3. The Icelander, abbot Brandr Jónsson, had just been appointed bishop of Hólar by the Norwegian hierarchy, thus becoming the first native of Iceland for several decades to occupy an Icelandic see. And 1262 was the very year in which Iceland finally succumbed to pressure and became part of the Norwegian empire. Keeping these events in sight without laying undue emphasis on them, The Ethics of Empire examines the thinking of the saga in contrast with that of its source, Walter of Chatillon ́s Alexandreis , the most successful Latin epic of the Middle Ages.