Morawiec Jakub, Jochymek Aleksandra, Bartusik Grzegorz (eds.) Social Norms in Medieval Scandinavia

Arc Humanities Press, 2019. — 288 p.New research methods allow us to explore how relics of the material culture of the medieval north can confront, corroborate, or disprove the depiction of social norms in the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus, which remains the most important source of our present-day knowledge of social development in the Viking Age and medieval Scandinavia. This interdisciplinary volume considers in depth how social values such as reputation, honour, and friendship, were integral to the development of rituals, customs, religion, literature, and language in the medieval North.Jakub Morawiec is Associate Professor in the Institute of History of the University of Silesia, specializing in Scandinavia and the Viking Age, skaldic poetry, and Old-Norse literature.Aleksandra Jochymek is a Doctoral Researcher in the Institute of History of the University of Silesia with a specialism in medieval history.Grzegorz Bartusik is a Doctoral Researcher in the Institute of History of the University of Silesia with a background in Classical Philology.