The Edges of the Medieval World / / ed. by Gerhard Jaritz, Juhan Kreem.
In the Middles Ages, the edges of one's world could represent different meanings. On the one hand, they might have been situated in far-away regions, mainly in the east and north, that one most often only knew from hearsay and which were inhabited by strange beings: humans with their faces on t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | CEU Medievalia
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Edges of the World – Edges of Time
- From the Peripheries to the Centres and Back: Visual Culture and the Edges of this World
- The Picture of the World in Old Norse Sources
- “The Land of the Norwegians is the Last in the World”: A Mid-eleventh-century Description of the Nordic Countries from the Pen of Adam of Bremen
- Political Rhetoric and the Edges of Christianity: Livonia and Its Evil Elements in the Fifteenth Century
- Living on the Edge: Pirates and the Livonians in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
- Darkness on the Edge of Town: Life at the Flurgrenze in Medieval and Traditional Narrative
- The Margins of One’s Small World: The Outskirts of Towns in Late Medieval and Early Modern Visual Representations
- What Is Exotic? Sources of Animals and Animal Products from the Edges of the Medieval World
- The Beast of Muhu: A Hybrid from the Periphery
- Tibi Silens Laus: Silence at the Edge of Language
- List of Contributors