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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Main Author:	Simon van Rekum
Format:	Book
Published:	Brill 2026
Subjects:	Middle Ages History Literature and Cultural Studies Languages and Linguistics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost