TY - CHAP
T1 - History, Politics, and Canon Law: The Resignation of Archbishop Eskil of Lund
AU - Münster-Swendsen, Mia
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Archbishop Eskil was leader of the Danish church for almost half a century, and although he is one of the individuals from twelfth-century Denmark we know the most about and who left the most traces, not least in the extant charter material, he remains one of the least studied. There is no scholarly biography of Eskil, who has been lingering in the historiographical shade of his successor, Absalon. The truism that history is written by the victors is appropriate here. The politics of memory and forgetting is their prerogative and in the case of twelfth-century Denmark, the winning party made sure that their version of events would be the one remembered in the future, woven into the first complete history of the Danish realm from its legendary beginnings to the contemporary present (1187), the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus.
AB - Archbishop Eskil was leader of the Danish church for almost half a century, and although he is one of the individuals from twelfth-century Denmark we know the most about and who left the most traces, not least in the extant charter material, he remains one of the least studied. There is no scholarly biography of Eskil, who has been lingering in the historiographical shade of his successor, Absalon. The truism that history is written by the victors is appropriate here. The politics of memory and forgetting is their prerogative and in the case of twelfth-century Denmark, the winning party made sure that their version of events would be the one remembered in the future, woven into the first complete history of the Danish realm from its legendary beginnings to the contemporary present (1187), the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus.
KW - Middelalderhistorie
KW - Retshistorie
KW - Kanonisk ret
UR - https://brill.com/view/title/36463
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9789004364332
VL - 26
T3 - Medieval Law and Its Practice
SP - 51
EP - 68
BT - The Use of Canon Law in Ecclesiastical Administration, 1000-1234
A2 - Eichbauer, Melodie H.
A2 - Summerlin, Danica
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -