Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Specific Notes
• 1 Introduction
• The Background in Brief
• Skriðuklaustur – Above and Beyond
• The Agents of Monasticism
• Present and Absent-Present
• 2 The Historiography of Medieval Monasticism in Iceland
• Protestantism and Nationalism
• Grand Narratives
• New Social History and Feminism
• Historical Archaeology
• 3 The Making of Icelandic Society
• The Settlement of Iceland
• The Expansion of Monasticism
• The Chieftains and the Church
• Periodical Struggle of Monasticism
• Challenging Innovations of Christianity
• Rights and Duties
• 4 The Christianization
• Christian Settlers and Pilgrimage
• Hermits and Anchorites in Iceland
• Early Eremitic and Anchoritic Solitude in Iceland
• Eremitic and Anchoritic Representatives After the Conversion
• Becoming Christian
• Papal Instructions and Statutes
• Materiality of Medieval Christendom
• 5 The Monastic Landscape
• A Finely Woven Network
• Location on a Well-trodden Path
• The Monastic Precincts
• Places of Sanctuary and Absolution
• Divine Manifestation
• Boundaries
• 6 Visiting the Monastic Houses
• The Benedictines at Munkaþverárklaustur
• The Other Three Benedictine Houses in Iceland
• The Augustinian Houses, Furniture, and Items
• 7 Disruptive Events
• Catastrophic Fire in Hítardalur 1148
• Monasteries on Fire
• The Plague
• Post-Plague Recovery
• Scandals
• Syphilis
• Disobedience
• A Case of Heresy?
• 8 The Monastic Communities
• The Devotion of the Icelandic Monastic Houses
• Textiles as Texts
• The Livestock of the Monastic Houses
• Household and Farm Work
• Corrody Contracts
• Obedientiaries, Novices, and Students
• The Number of Residents, Lay and Religious
• 9 Iceland’s Five Hundred Years of Monasticism: The End
• Reforming the World
• Viðeyjarklaustur Attacked
• Dissolution of Iceland’s Remaining Monastic Houses
• The Execution of Bishop Jón Arason
• Valuables Transported to Denmark
• Idolatry and Heresy
• The Valþjófsstaður Door
• The Tudor Rose and the Pomegranate
• Bibliography
• Printed Primary Sources
• Unpublished Theses and Reports
• Secondary Sources
• Index