{"product_id":"9783032247599","title":"Minds, Cognitive Ecologies and Old Norse Literary Artefacts","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThe New Middle Ages\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eMinds, Cognitive Ecologies and Old Norse Literary Artefacts\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eStefka G. Eriksen\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Medieval\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis open access book examines reading and mindreading in medieval manuscript culture through a focus on Old Norse literature and ecology. It demonstrates how medieval literature, through its textuality and materiality, represents and describes various social and fictional worlds while also forming a constitutive element in the socio-cognitive ecology. To accomplish this, \u003cspan class=\"markb4c56k1nt\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003eEriksen\u003c\/span\u003e engages in a close reading of three texts from different genres, that are all preserved in the fourteenth-century Icelandic manuscript Hauksbók. These include the Old Norse translation of \u003cem\u003eElucidarius\u003c\/em\u003e, a pan-European handbook in medieval theology, the Icelandic family saga \u003cem\u003eFóstbrœðra saga\u003c\/em\u003e, and the legendary saga\u003cem\u003e Hervarar saga ok Heiðriks\u003c\/em\u003e. Collectively, the three texts represent a wide variety of minds, bodies, and worlds, through a unique combination of literary styles and forms (prose, dialogue, and skaldic and eddic poetry). Thus, they reveal how one manuscript could offer a great variety of cognitive tools to its audience and thus guide their social existence through various social contracts. This investigation is based on new insight from cognitive studies, which postulates the symbiotic entanglement between minds, bodies, and their worlds (4E cognition); these elements’ symbiotic co-evolvement in their cognitive ecologies; and the centrality of mindreading, also when reading, as a main strategy to navigate these cognitive ecologies. These theoretical frameworks serve as basis for the development of a new analytical toolkit for investigating the role of writing and reading as a navigation strategy in Old Norse society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eStefka G. \u003cspan class=\"markb4c56k1nt\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\"\u003eEriksen\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-US\"\u003eis Professor of Old Norse Philology at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her academic background is from interdisciplinary medieval studies, and she specializes in Old Norse literary and manuscript studies, translation studies, and cognitive and ecocritical approaches to Old Norse literature.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e31 July 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eUniversity of Oslo\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032247599\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e324\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"University of Oslo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46795384094860,"sku":"9783032247599","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032247599.jpg?v=1781059528","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783032247599","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}