Saxo Grammaticus : Hierocratical Conceptions and Danish Hegemony in the Thirteenth Century.

Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Denmark and the Baltic in the Thirteenth Century -- Chapter 2 - The Work -- Chapter 3 - Political Conceptions -- Chapter 4 - Euhemerism and the East in Saxo Grammaticus -- Chapter 5 - Virtues and Values in Saxo Grammaticus: The Four Cardinal Virtues -- Chapter 6 - The Thematic of the Counsellor -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1 - List of the Kings in Books I-VIII of the Gesta Danorum -- Appendix 2 - Rulers and Archbishops of Denmark in Relation to Events in the Baltic, the Empire, and the Papacy -- Appendix 3 - Genealogy of the Valdemarian Kings -- Bibliography -- Index of Persons -- Index of Places and Peoples -- Index of Authors and Primary Sources.

Using the Gesta Danorumof Saxo Grammaticus as its main primary source, this works analyzes the transitions of the twelfth to thirteenth centuries in Denmark, particularly in the context of the Northern Crusades.

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