Making Images in the Far North

Noëlle L. W. Streeton; Jón Viðar Sigurðsson

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Noëlle L. W. Streeton

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Pages:: 91–120

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004712034_005

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Two short texts known as Líkneskjusmíð (“Image making”) and Að mála upp á tré (“To paint on wood”) allow a privileged glimpse into medieval craftsmanship in the far north of Europe. Through these sources, probably from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, it is possible to address aspects related to the production of images that were crucial for the practice of Latin Christianity in the Archbishopric of Nidaros. In tandem with sources for the Bishoprics of Hólar and Skálholt from the period c. 1320 to 1550, these sources provide extraordinary insight into the situation for sculptors and painters in medieval Iceland and Norway.

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Sacred Medieval Objects and Their Afterlives in Scandinavia

Series: The Northern World, Volume: 98

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004712034

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 07 Dec 2024

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