ARESSON, JON

all: yōn äˈrĕsôn, 1484?–1550, Icelandic churchman. The last Roman Catholic bishop in Iceland before the Reformation, he was executed together with his sons, Ara and Bjorn, for resisting the new religious ordinances brought about by the Reformation in Denmark. Aresson established the first Icelandic printing press at Holar in 1528. His poetry, secular and sacred, has been preserved.

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Aresson, Jon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARESSON, JON all: yon a reson, 1484? 1550, Icelandic churchman. The last Roman Catholic...the new religious ordinances brought about by the Reformation in Denmark. Aresson established the first Icelandic printing press at Holar in 1528. His poetry...
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Arason, Jon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ARASON, JON see Aresson, Jon . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Icelandic Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...brought to Iceland in 1528 by Bishop Jon Aresson . From the Reformation until the late...story, Hallgrimsson also influenced Jon Thoroddsen , who wrote the first...period was the historian and statesman Jon Sigurethsson . The periodical Verdandi...
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Iceland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...imposed by force (1539 51) over the opposition of Bishop Jon Aresson ; the Reformation brought new intellectual activity...for independence. The great leader of this movement was Jon Sigurethsson . The Althing, abolished in 1800, was reestablished...


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