Adam of Bremen's "Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum": Origins, Reception and Significance

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List of abbreviations
Introduction
1 Imperial politics and visions of the North
2 Proselytus et advena: reading the opening lines of Adam’s prologue in the light of biblical viewpoints on foreigners and converts
3 Sven Estridsen as Adam’s informant
4 St. Olaf and Adam of Bremen’s narrative pragmatics
5 Ad insulas Baltici. Role and reception of scholia in Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum
6 Adam of Bremen and the early (pre- 995) history of Norway
7 The eleventh- century Normans of Normandy in the view of Adam of Bremen
8 Religious conversions in Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum and in Saxo Grammaticus’ Gesta Danorum: a comparative approach
9 On the influence of Adam’s Gesta on Yngvars saga víðfǫrla
10 Adam of Bremen and visions of the state in Early Medieval
Scandinavia
– a
comparative approach to chiefdom, leadership,
kingship, segmental tribes
11 Ars moriendi and figures of power in Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum
12 Female characters and the meaning of history in Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis
13 Of Gunnhildrs and Gyðas
14 At the edge of time: Adam of Bremen’s imaginary North and Horror Vacui
15 Scythia and the Scythian Sea on the mental map of Adam of Bremen
16 Harald Bluetooth and the Western Slavs: cultural interactions in light of textual and archaeological sources
17 The description of the Oder (Odra) estuary in Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum . The oldest accounts of the river until the end of the twelfth century
18 Est sane maxima omnium, quas Europa claudit, civitatum. Adam of Bremen and the estimation of size and population of early medieval Wolin
19 Adam of Bremen’s Gesta Hammaburgensis pontificum as an inspiration for Polish politics of history in Wolin after WW2
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