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In Vox regis: Royal Communication in High Medieval Norway, David Brégaint examines how the Norwegian monarchy gradually managed to infiltrate Norwegian society through the development of a communicative system during the High Middle Ages, from c. 1150 to c. 1300. Drawing on sagas, didactic literature, charters, and laws, the book demonstrates how the Norwegian kings increasingly played a key -role in the promotion of royal ideology in society through rituals and the written word. In particular, the book stresses the interaction between secular and clerical culture, the role of the Church and of the Norwegian aristocracy
Price: $246.00
Pages: 410
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
15 October 2015
ISBN: 9789004305083
Format: Hardcover
"The narrative presented by Brégaint is convincing, and even though it is concerned with a much-discussed period of political state formationin Norwegian history, it foregrounds a different aspect of this process.Royal communication is here seen as a conscious political strategy, and tracing its history thus provides a new insight to our understanding of high medieval Norway". Stefka G. Eriksen, in Journal of Northern Studies 2017 (11).
David Brégaint. Ph.D. (2014), NTNU (Trondheim), is a post doctoral researcher for the Norwegian Research Council in the department for historical studies. He has published several articles on Norwegian medieval history and translations, including Le Discours contre les évêques. Politique et controverse en Norvège vers 1200 (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2013).