Note: From an interdisciplinary symposium. From the Library of Professor D. Rollason & Dr L. Rollason of the Medieval History Department at Durham University.
This book has 10 contributors.

Contents: A Bishop in Arms: Absalon and the leding. - Absalon and Danish Policy towards the Holy Roman Empire. - Absalon and the Norwegian Civil War: Christian Ideology of War and Peace. - Absalon's Spirituality: A Man Attached to Holy Men. - The Estates of Absalon and the Hvide Family. - The Papal Confirmations of Archbishop Absalon, especially concerning the Castle of Havn (Copenhagen). - Archbishop Anders Sunesen and Pope Innocent III: Papal Privileges and Episcopal Virtues. - The Nordic Archbishoprics as Literary Centres around 1200. - Saxo Grammaticus's Portrait of Archbishop Absalon. - Saxo, the clericus of Abssalon.