Isolated islands in medieval nature, culture and mind /
[Book]
edited by Torstein Jørgensen and Gerhard Jaritz.
First edition.
New York :
Central European University Press,
2011.
1 online resource (146 pages) :
illustrations, maps.
CEU medievalia ;
14
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Paradise Islands in the East and West -Tradition and Meaning in Some Cartographical Places on the Medieval Rim of the World -- The Powers and Purposes of an Insular Setting -on Some Motifs in Old-Norse Literature -- Monastic "Islands" in Medieval Denmark: Insular Isolation in Ideal and Practice -- Religious Athletes -- on the Perception of the Body in Medieval Asceticism -- Holy Islands and the Otherworld: Places beyond Water -- Hvítramannaland and Other Fictional Islands in the Sea
The Unknown Island -- Will the Son of Nine Sisters Rule the Sea-Kidney? -- The Quality of Islands in Middle High German Literature -- Seasonal Isolation in the Communication in Livonia -- Utstein Monastery: An Island on an Island -- or not? -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Back cover
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JSTOR
22573/ctt2bc4bk
Isolated islands in medieval nature, culture and mind.