Table of Contents

1. Denmark and the Baltic in the Thirteenth Century
2. The Work
3. Political Conceptions
4. Euhemerism and the East in Saxo Grammaticus
5.Virtues and Values in Saxo Grammaticus: The Four Cardinal Virtues
6. The Thematic of the Counsellor
Conclusion
Appendix 1: List of the Kings in Books I-VIII of the Gesta Danorum
Appendix 2: Rulers and Archbishops of Denmark in Relation to Events in the Baltic, the Empire, and the Papacy
Appendix 3: Genealogy of the Valdemarian Kings

About the Author

André Muceniecks is a Professor of Church History at the Baptist Faculty of São Paulo and a resarch fellow at the State University of Campinas.