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

• Pubblicazione: Budapest, : Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies; Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press; Tallinn, Estonia, : Centre for Medieval Studies, Tallinn University, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (151 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.1
• Soggetto topico: Middle Ages; Civilization, Medieval
• Soggetto non controllato: Baltic Countries, Civilization, Medieval, Middle Ages
• Altri autori: JaritzGerhard <1949-> KreemJuhan
• 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 their chest, without a mouth, or with dog heads. On the other hand, the edges of one's world could just mean the borders of the community where one lived and that one sometimes might not have had the possibility to cross during one's whole life.In this volume specialists from eight European countries offer their ideas about different edges of the medieval world and contribute to a discussion that has been increasing greatly in Medieval Studies in recent times.
• Titolo autorizzato: The edges of the medieval world
• ISBN: 978-615-5211-70-6; 978-6-15521-170-6; 9786155211706; 615-5211-70-1; 1-4416-1816-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778008403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Muhu proceedings ; ; 1.; CEU medievalia ; ; 11.