Isolated islands in medieval nature, culture and mind / edited by Torstein Jørgensen and Gerhard Jaritz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jørgensen, Torstein, 1951-

Jaritz, Gerhard, 1949-

Series:

CEU medievalia ; 14.

CEU medievalia ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islands--History.

Islands.

Islands--Social aspects.

Civilization, Medieval.

History.

Physical Description:

146 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bergen [Norway] : Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen ; Budapest ; New York : Central European University, Department of Medieval Studies : Central European University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Scholars from a number of countries who have spent the past few years exploring peripheral areas and outer borders of the medieval world turn their attention to islands. They pivot around the themes of the search for undiscovered and paradise islands, the idea of fictional islands in Old Norse texts, the quality of islands in literary evidence, monasteries as and on islands, the human body as an island of religious achievement, and the seasonal islandization of certain lands. The group's first publication considered discourse about the edges of the world; those papers were from a conference on the Estonian island of Muhu, and so the series is called the Muhu Proceedings. Distributed in the US by Books International, Incorporated. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Paradise Island in the East and West-Tradition and Meaning in Some Cartographical Places on the Medieval Rim of the World / Felicitas Schmieder Schmieder, Felicitas 3

The Powers and Purposes of an Insular Setting on Some Motifs in Old-Norse Literature / Kristel Zilmer Zilmer, Kristel 23

Monastic "Islands" in Medieval Denmark Insular Isolation in Ideal and Practice / Johnny Grandjean Gogsig Jacobsen Jacobsen, Johnny Grandjean Gogsig 36

Religious Athletes-on the Perception of the Body in Medieval Asceticism / Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen Nielsen, Torben Kjersgaard 45

Holy Islands and the Otherworld: Places beyond Water / Eldar Heide Heide, Eldar 57

Other Fictional Islands in the Sea / Else Mundal Hvítramannaland Hvítramannaland, Else Mundal 81

The Unknown Island / Margaret Elphinstone Elphinstone, Margaret 88

Will the son of Nine Sisters Rule the Sea-Kidney? / Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen Thorvaldsen, Bernt Øyvind 97

The Quality of Islands in Middle High German Literature / Gerard Jaritz Jaritz, Gerard 111

Seasonal Isolation in the Communication in Livonia / Juhan Kreem Kreem, Juhan 120

Utstein Monastery: An Island on an Island - or not? / Torstein Jorgensen Jorgensen, Torstein 128.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

6155053243

9786155053245

OCLC:

692291055

Publisher Number:

99946259395