QUAESTIO INSULARIS 8

Contents:

• Janet L. Nelson , ‘Knowledge and Power in Earlier Medieval Europe’, 1–18
  
  
• Hannah Burrows, ‘“In This Country What Is Found in Books Is to Be Law”:
  Legal Knowledge, Literacy and the Shifting Spheres of Power
  in Commonwealth-Period Iceland’, 19–35
  
  
• Helen Foxhall Forbes, The Power of Binding and Loosing: the Chains of Sin in
  Anglo-Saxon Literature and Liturgy’, 51–65
  
  
• Stephanie Fishwick, ‘Crossing the Thresholds: the Relationship between Knowledge, Power and Death in Hávamál’, 66–81
  
  
• Sally Lamb, ‘Knowledge about the Scandinavian North in Ninth-Century England and Francia’, 82–93
  
  
• Erik Niblaeus, ‘The Beginnings of Lund Cathedral Chapter and Its German Connections’, 94–112
  
  
• Natalia Petrovskaia, ‘Edling or Penteulu? Ambiguities in the Status of Gwalchmei, Nephew of Arthur’, 113–28
  
  
• Abigail Queen, ‘Ring-Givers and the “Metal-Strife of Princes” in Atlakviða’, 129–50
  
  
• Benjamin Snook, ‘Bishops and Pawns: Parallels between “Caesaropapism” and Crusade Ideology in Tenth-Century England and Thirteenth-Century Denmark’, 151–78