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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455457603321

Titolo

The edges of the medieval world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Gerhard Jaritz and Juhan Kreem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest, : Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies

Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press

Tallinn, Estonia, : Centre for Medieval Studies, Tallinn University, 2009

ISBN

978-615-5211-70-6

978-6-15521-170-6

9786155211706

615-5211-70-1

1-4416-1816-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (151 p.)

Collana

CEU medievalia, , 1587-6470 ; ; 11

The Muhu proceedings ; ; 1

Altri autori (Persone)

JaritzGerhard <1949->

KreemJuhan

Disciplina

940.1

Soggetti

Middle Ages

Civilization, Medieval

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

List of Contributors