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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Thanks Meg! This sounds really fun. Look forward to it. It would be fun to try to cross-compare your d/b with information about the distribution of individuals of non-Icelandic origin in Iceland, just to see whether there is a clustering of objects and individuals around certain churches/schools/cloisters/church farms. I suspect, though, that the sources are not going to allow for this - too much invested in that old saga trope of the "travelling Icelander from the edge of the word, magpie-collector of foreign words, thoughts and objects". But I bet it happened, for all that!! Good luck with your work, katrina Dr Katrina C. Attwood Department of Computer Science University of York Deramore Lane YORK YO10 5GH Telephone: 01904 325460 E-mail: [log in to unmask] University of York's E-mail disclaimer: http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm On 24 February 2015 at 16:31, Cormack, Margaret Jean <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Dear Katina, > Good question! When my database is finished, it will enable searches by various aspects of church size/wealth. > It could be done today, by hand, and I may add this in as part of my project on foreign objects in Icelandic churches this coming summer. > Meg > > ________________________________________ > From: medieval-religion - Scholarly discussions of medieval religious culture [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Katrina Attwood [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:16 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [M-R] FEAST - A Celebration for the Day (February 24): the First and Second Finding(s) of the Head of St. John the Forerunner > > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > > Hi Meg, > > Can the alabasters (which were presumably relatively expensive, in a > country where a Bible translation was priced at "three fish" in the > seventeenth century) be used to give an indication of the relative > prosperity of certain churches/cloisters in Iceland? > > All best wishes, as ever, > Katrina > Dr Katrina C. Attwood > Department of Computer Science > University of York > Deramore Lane > YORK > YO10 5GH > > Telephone: 01904 325460 > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > > University of York's E-mail disclaimer: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.york.ac.uk_docs_disclaimer_email.htm&d=AwIFAw&c=7MSSWy9Bs2yocjNQzurxOQ&r=ck9DGMUVufrSrS57t_UT9k6In-tVqXkuW6oaFL10XQY&m=S0Xq0Wkh9bGyDU5gSsjcgonnjtJINgI-U_8QPl2bsYQ&s=p8iTPwirF6eGvu8aprce5wpXDO8_TNBJLWBJikR6xuI&e= > > > > On 24 February 2015 at 16:05, Cormack, Margaret Jean <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture >> >> Interestingly, location of (mostly not surviving) alabasters is quite good in Iceland! There are a number of "heads of John the Baptist". I believe the English summary with the article below will be helpful, though not of course for English provenance! And I haven't been able to find any indications of what English port(s) they might have been imported from. >> Meg >> >> Bera Nordal, "Skrá um enskar alabastursmyndir frá miđöldum sem varđveist hafa á Íslandi," Árbók hins íslenzka fornleifafélags 1985 (Reykjavík: 1986), pp. 85-128, with English summary and black and white illustrations. >> ********************************************************************** >> To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME >> to: [log in to unmask] >> To send a message to the list, address it to: >> [log in to unmask] >> To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion >> to: [log in to unmask] >> In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: >> [log in to unmask] >> For further information, visit our web site: >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.jiscmail.ac.uk_medieval-2Dreligion&d=AwIFAw&c=7MSSWy9Bs2yocjNQzurxOQ&r=ck9DGMUVufrSrS57t_UT9k6In-tVqXkuW6oaFL10XQY&m=S0Xq0Wkh9bGyDU5gSsjcgonnjtJINgI-U_8QPl2bsYQ&s=XGHfgnxB4xkr7WCteKbMIqT1d5MtFfpA19hnGcFikEU&e= > > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.jiscmail.ac.uk_medieval-2Dreligion&d=AwIFAw&c=7MSSWy9Bs2yocjNQzurxOQ&r=ck9DGMUVufrSrS57t_UT9k6In-tVqXkuW6oaFL10XQY&m=S0Xq0Wkh9bGyDU5gSsjcgonnjtJINgI-U_8QPl2bsYQ&s=XGHfgnxB4xkr7WCteKbMIqT1d5MtFfpA19hnGcFikEU&e= > ********************************************************************** > To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME > to: [log in to unmask] > To send a message to the list, address it to: > [log in to unmask] > To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion > to: [log in to unmask] > In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: > [log in to unmask] > For further information, visit our web site: > http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion