Edges of the Medieval World.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Central European University Press,
2008.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9789639776456 9639776459 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Felicitas Schmieder, Edges of the World
- Edges of Time; Gerhard Jaritz, From the Peripheries to the Centres and Back: Visual Culture and the Edges of this World; Else Mundal, The Picture of the World in Old Norse Sources; Torstein Jørgensen, "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; Anti Selart, Political Rhetoric and the Edges of Christianity: Livonia and Its Evil Elements in the Fifteenth Century.
- Juhan Kreem, Living on the Edge: Pirates and the Livonians in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth CenturiesTom Pettitt, Darkness on the Edge of Town: Life at the Flurgrenze in Medieval and Traditional Narrative; Judit Sebő, The Margins of One's Small World: The Outskirts of Towns in Late Medieval and Early Modern Visual Representations; Aleksander Pluskowski, What Is Exotic? Sources of Animals and Animal Products from the Edges of the Medieval World; Tom Pettitt and Kadri Tüür, The Beast of Muhu: A Hybrid from the Periphery; Lucie Doležalová, Tibi Silens Laus: Silence at the Edge of Language.