Ontologies of Titles: Office-Person Relationships and Social Taxonomies in 13th-Century Norway and Iceland

More than mere labels, medieval titles strongly defined the identities of the persons or groups who bore them. Ontologies of Titles questions modern assumptions that guide how historians frame social titles; it shows that Norse titles often were indifferent to boundaries between individual and commo...

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Autor principal: Simon van Rekum
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Publicado: Brill 2026
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