{"product_id":"9781442697997","title":"Nidrstigningar Saga: Sources, Transmission, and Theology of the Old Norse \"descent Into Hell\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eEvangelium Nicodemi\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eGospel of Nicodemus\u003c\/i\u003e, was the most widely circulated apocryphal writing in medieval Europe. It depicted the trial, Passion, and crucifixion of Christ as well as his Harrowing of Hell. During the twelfth-century renaissance, some exemplars of the \u003ci\u003eEvangelium Nicodemi \u003c\/i\u003efound their way to Iceland where its text was later translated into the vernacular and known as \u003ci\u003eNiðrstigningar saga.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDario Bullitta has embarked on a highly fascinating voyage that traces the routes of transmission of the Latin text to Iceland and continental Scandinavia. He argues that the saga is derived from a less popular twelfth-century French redaction of the \u003ci\u003eEvangelium Nicodemi, \u003c\/i\u003eand that it bears the exegetical and scriptural influences of twelfth-century Parisian scholars active at Saint Victor, Peter Comestor and Peter Lombard in particular. By placing \u003ci\u003eNiðrstigningar saga \u003c\/i\u003ewithin the greater theological and homiletical context of early thirteenth-century Iceland, Bullitta successfully adds to our knowledge of the early reception of Latin biblical and apocryphal literature in medieval Iceland and provides a new critical edition and translation of the vernacular text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47030581690608,"sku":"9781442697997","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442697997_p0.jpg?v=1763825323","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442697997","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}