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In Hagiography and Episcopal Authority in Medieval Iceland, Davide Salmoiraghi studies how Saints’ sagas served to promote Gregorian ideals of ecclesiastical independence in the thirteenth-century Icelandic Church. Davide Salmoiraghi focuses on the Nordic reception of St Ambrose of Milan (374–397), the most renowned militant bishop in the battle between regnum and sacerdotium, showing how the Old Norse version of his hagiography (Ambrósíuss saga biskups) influenced the sagas of those bishops who fought to free the Icelandic Church from secular control.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
20 August 2026
ISBN: 9789004750876
Format: Hardcover
The study is intended for scholars of Medieval Scandinavia, but also researchers in the fields of hagiography and ecclesiastica literature, as well as translation studies, in the European Middle Ages.
Davide Salmoiraghi, Ph.D. (2024), University of Cambridge, is Academic Associate at Pembroke College (Cambridge). He has published several articles on Old Norse religious literature and history, as well as chivalric sagas, including a translation of Dámusta saga (Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2024).