Constant Crisis
Constant Crisis focuses on the culmination of struggles in the medieval Norwegian kingdom to examine whether these conflicts underscored a breakdown of society and polity or whether they created an equilibrium among factions that in fact ""served to contain violence."" Applying the term ""constant c...
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| author | Orning, Hans Jacob |
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| description | Constant Crisis focuses on the culmination of struggles in the medieval Norwegian kingdom to examine whether these conflicts underscored a breakdown of society and polity or whether they created an equilibrium among factions that in fact ""served to contain violence."" Applying the term ""constant crisis"" for its deliberate ""dissonance,"" Hans Jacob Orning observes that two properties were manifest in Norwegian political and social structures of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: a systemic balance achieved in an environment of ""endemic power struggles,"" and a normalization of these conflicts that made it ""possible to maneuver and make plans and strategies.""
The kings' sagas Sverris saga and Böglunga sögur are virtually indispensable sources of information on this period of Norwegian history, and Orning relies extensively on them, as well as on other medieval sources, to depict this era and its protagonists, including the major rival armed groups (the Birchlegs and the Croziers); and among kings, bishops, and earls, the person of King Sverre himself. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1591782025-05-15T04:18:42Z Constant Crisis Orning, Hans Jacob medieval Norway, political conflict, King Sverre, Sverris saga, Birchlegs, Croziers, social structure, royal authority Constant Crisis focuses on the culmination of struggles in the medieval Norwegian kingdom to examine whether these conflicts underscored a breakdown of society and polity or whether they created an equilibrium among factions that in fact ""served to contain violence."" Applying the term ""constant crisis"" for its deliberate ""dissonance,"" Hans Jacob Orning observes that two properties were manifest in Norwegian political and social structures of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: a systemic balance achieved in an environment of ""endemic power struggles,"" and a normalization of these conflicts that made it ""possible to maneuver and make plans and strategies."" The kings' sagas Sverris saga and Böglunga sögur are virtually indispensable sources of information on this period of Norwegian history, and Orning relies extensively on them, as well as on other medieval sources, to depict this era and its protagonists, including the major rival armed groups (the Birchlegs and the Croziers); and among kings, bishops, and earls, the person of King Sverre himself. 2025-05-09T08:57:03Z 2025-05-09T08:57:03Z 2025-05-08T09:37:55Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101395 9780935995312 9780935995367 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159178 eng Islandica open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101395/1/9780935995374.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101395/1/9780935995374.pdf Cornell University Press 10.7298/R1RJ-F850 10.7298/R1RJ-F850 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e 9780935995312 9780935995367 276 open access |
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| topic | medieval Norway, political conflict, King Sverre, Sverris saga, Birchlegs, Croziers, social structure, royal authority |
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