Poetry on Christian Subjects

Edited by Margaret Clunies Ross

Book cover: Poetry on Christian Subjects

Extent: 1114 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

Series volume number: 7

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(January 2008)

ISBN: 9782503518930

Price: $175.00

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This volume is devoted to poems of Christian piety, often recorded outside prose contexts, which date from the mid-twelfth to the end of the fourteenth century. They range in subject matter from saints’ lives and lives of the apostles to poems addressed to the Cross and the Virgin Mary and reveal the poetic compositions of some of the learned ecclesiastics (and a few laymen) of medieval Iceland.


This volume is devoted to poems of Christian piety, often recorded outside prose contexts, which date from the mid-twelfth to the end of the fourteenth century. They range in subject matter from saints’ lives and lives of the apostles to poems addressed to the Cross and the Virgin Mary and reveal the poetic compositions of some of the learned ecclesiastics (and a few laymen) of medieval Iceland.

  • Edited by Margaret Clunies Ross