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      Magic and Kingship in Medieval Iceland: The Construction of a Discourse of Political Resistance

      Nicolas Meylan

      This volume examines the performative and ideological functions of texts dealing with magic in contexts of social and political conflict. While the rites, representations, and agents of medieval Scandinavian magic…

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      The Pagan Earl: Hakon Siguraarson and the Medieval Construction of Old Norse Religion

      Nicolas Meylan

      This monograph comprises a close investigation of the use of pagan concepts by the authors and redactors of medieval Norwegian royal history, the vernacular and Latin works commonly called kings…

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      Mana: A History of a Western Category

      Nicolas Meylan

      In Mana: A History of a Western Category Nicolas Meylan proposes a critical account of Western imaginations of mana, an Oceanic word borrowed by Europeans to denote ‘supernatural power’.

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