Wojtek Jezierski is Associate Professor, History of Ideas, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University, Stockholm and the Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg.Kim Esmark is Associate Professor of Medieval History at Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University.Hans Jacob Orning is Professor of Medieval History at Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at University of Oslo.Jón Viðar Sigurðsson is Professor of Medieval History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo.

• Introduction: Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250: Legitimacy and Glory Section 1: Glorifying Kings 1. Canonizing Kings: Nordic Royal Hagiography as Legitimation and Glorification 2. Prosperity and Peace: Glorification of Rulers in Medieval Scandinavia 3. Kings, Gods, Poets, and Priests: Varieties and Transformations of Circuits of Charismatic Legitimation in Norway 4. Legitimizing Royal Power in Medieval Scandinavian Laws Section 2: Spaces of Elevation 5. Building Glory: Elite Palaces in Early and High Medieval Scandinavia 6. Glory and Legitimation in the Aristocratic Hall 7. Elite Soldiers of Christ: Elevating the Secular Elite on Danish Church Walls, Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries Section 3: Elevating Social Orders 8. Moderation and Restraint During Conflict as Ideal Behavior in High Medieval Scandinavia and Iceland 9. Father and Son, Brother and Friend: The Papal Curia and the Status of the Nordic Ecclesiastical Elite 10. Travels, Translations, and Cultural Brokerage: Courtly Literature as a Means of Elite Legitimation in Thirteenth-Century Norway 11. Legitimation Through Narrative: Glorious Pasts as Arguments in Political Discourse 12. "Legitimation and Its Problems: The Sagas and the Icelandic Elite in the Thirteenth Century 13. Postscript

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