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Order, Disorder and Disordered Order: Interpretations of the World and Society from the Pagan to the Christian Period in Scandinavia

By Sverre Bagge

Book information

Publisher
University of Cambridge, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
Year
2008
ISBN
0955456843, 9780955456848
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
881 kB (901837 bytes)
Series
H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lectures, 18
Pages
34\36
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-12-20 02:36:33

Description

Order was a central concept in medieval Christendom, concerning religion, nature, ethics and society. In a general sense, all societies have some concept of order. However, in the following comparison between the pagan and Christian world picture in Scandinavia and in the account of the transition from the former to the latter, I want to argue that we are not only dealing with a change in the concept of order but with a new attitude to order as such, an idea expressed in my somewhat paradoxical term ‘disordered order’ for the pre-Christian period.

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