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Erlendis hafa þverfaglegar rannsóknir á sviði laga og bókmennta verið blómlegar á undanförnum ártugum. Á fyrstu áratugum tuttugustu aldar mótaðist meðal bandarískra lögfræðikennara hreyfing í kringum þetta efni (e. the law and literature movement) sem hafði framan af þann tilgang að bæta húmanískan bakgrunn lögfræðinema. Um miðjan þriðja áratuginn voru færð rök fyrir mikilvægi þess að lögfræðingar kynntu sér skáldskap og bókmenntir. Þar sem starf stéttarinnar snerist að verulegu leyti um skriftir (að semja sóknar- og varnarræður, lög og dómsorð) væri yfirgripsmikil þekking á stíl og stílbrögðum gagnleg hverjum þeim sem vildi ná árangri í faginu. Ekki leið á löngu þar til bandaríska fræðiumræðan fór að hafa áhrif víðar, meðal annars í Evrópu. Meginmarkmið með þessu þemahefti Ritisins er að kynna þessa fræðahefð hérlendis og vekja áhuga á margháttuðum tengslum lögfræðinnar við bókmenntafræði, sagnfræði og heimspeki. Í heftinu birtast fjórar frumsamdar og tvær þýddar greinar þar sem lög og bókmenntir fléttast saman.

The astonishing range of writings about the social causes and consequences of the Icelandic 2008 financial crisis proffers a unique opportunity to analyse comparative-ly how scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences deal with one and the same subject. How does the scholarly approach differ regarding the employment of theories, hypotheses, empirical data and concepts? Is the methodology of the humanities noticeably different from that of the social sciences? Did the boundaries of philosophy and related sciences change in times of crisis, momentarily or permanently?

This article is written on the occasion of the 500 years anniversary of the Lutheran reformation (siðbót) which started in 1517. The aim is to point out new perspectives worth considering in research on the main implications of the reformation in the political field (siðaskipti) and cultural and / or social field (siðbreyting). In this regard, it is pointed out that in researches of such a complex historical process is inevitable to assume pre-defined pardigms that can serve as prerequisites for the interpretation of the subject. It is also pointed out that, up to present time, a single one-sided paradigm which describes the reformation as a revolution has been assumed in Icelandic studies of the reformation which assumes that the transition from a catholic to a lutheran church in Iceland has been sudden and for more or less political reasons, ie. for the efforts of Christian the III:rd of Denmark to increase his assets, properties and power in the country. The article argues that the relationships between religion and politics was much more complexed at this time than has generally been expected, as well as that Christina the III:rd and his representatives in Iceland considered it as their duties as christians to promote the reformation in the country and in that way respond to the demand of Luther to the christian nobility to rescue the Church on the basis of the gospel. In the article it is assumed that the reformation in Iceland happened in the period 1539-1600 and the development took place on various religious, ecclesial, political and cultural fields. In that way it is meaningful to describe it as a viscous reformation.