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Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind / ed. by Gerhard Jaritz.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CEU MedievaliaPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (152 p.)Content type:
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  • 9786155053252
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.2/3 22
LOC classification:
  • GB471 .I88 2011eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- 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
Summary: Focuses specifically on the concept and role of islands in the medieval world. The main characteristic of an island is, of course, that of being isolated from the rest of the world; in geography by waters, in more abstract and symbolic meanings by other kinds of separating borders. Islands were the place 'on the other side', of difference, otherness and remoteness. As one of the articles in this volume puts it, islands are often depicted "as sites for extraordinary events and happenings".
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Frontmatter -- 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

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Focuses specifically on the concept and role of islands in the medieval world. The main characteristic of an island is, of course, that of being isolated from the rest of the world; in geography by waters, in more abstract and symbolic meanings by other kinds of separating borders. Islands were the place 'on the other side', of difference, otherness and remoteness. As one of the articles in this volume puts it, islands are often depicted "as sites for extraordinary events and happenings".

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