Viking Mediologies: A New History of Skaldic Poetics

by Kate Heslop

Book Overview

Viking Mediologies is a study of pre-modern multimedia rooted in the embodied poetic practice of Viking Age skalds. Prior study of the skaldic tradition has focused on authorship--distinctions of poetic style, historical contexts, and attention to the oeuvres of the skalds whose names are preserved in the written tradition. Kate Heslop reconsiders these not as texts but as pieces in a pre-modern media landscape, focusing on poetry's medial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823298256
• ISBN13: 9780823298259
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"