ISBN:
6155053251
,
9786155053252
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (146 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
CEU medievalia 14
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Isolated islands in medieval nature, culture and mind
DDC:
304.2/3
Keywords:
Islands Social aspects
;
Civilization, Medieval
;
Islands History
;
Islands
;
Islands ; Social aspects
;
Geography
;
Earth & Environmental Sciences
;
Physical Geography
;
Öar ; historia
;
Öar ; sociala aspekter
;
HISTORY ; Medieval
;
History
;
Civilization, Medieval
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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