Textual Production and Status Contests in Rising and Unstable Societies

Introduction—MASSIMILIANO BAMPI, MARINA BUZZONI; Textual Efflorescence and Social Resources: Notes on Mediaeval Iceland--ITAMAR EVEN-ZOHAR; Writing Strategies  Romance and the Creation of a New Genre in Medieval Iceland--TORFI H. TULINIUS; The Change in Position of Translated Riddarasögur within Old Norse Literary Polysystems: A Case Study of Elíss saga ok Rósamundar--STEFKA GEORGIEVA ERIKSEN; Literary Activity and Power Struggle: Some Observations on the Medieval Icelandic Polysystem after the Sturlungaöld--MASSIMILIANO BAMPI; Middle Low German Literature: a Polysystem between Polysystems?--FULVIO FERRARI; Beyond the Borders:  (In)stability of Group Dynamics and Culture Planning--MARINA BUZZONI; The Remodeling of the Literary Profession and Its Role  in the Making of Modern German Culture in Late 18th Century--RAKEFET SELA-SHEFFY; Der Blonde Eckbert in an Alien Polysystem: The Reception of Tieck\'s «skröksaga» in 19th-Century Iceland--JÓN KARL HELGASON