Book Review: Voyages and Explorations in the North Atlantic from the Middle Ages to the XVIIth Century

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 400-401
Author(s):  
Olaf U. Janzen
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Xviith Century ◽  
The Middle Ages

scholarly journals Medieval Monasticism in Iceland and Norse Greenland

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 374
Author(s):  
Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
The Middle Ages

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the monastic houses operated on the northernmost periphery of Roman Catholic Europe during the Middle Ages. The intention is to debunk the long-held theory of Iceland and Norse Greenland’s supposed isolation from the rest of the world, as it is clear that medieval monasticism reached both of these societies, just as it reached their counterparts elsewhere in the North Atlantic. During the Middle Ages, fourteen monastic houses were opened in Iceland and two in Norse Greenland, all following the Benedictine or Augustinian Orders.

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