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Title: ISOLATED ISLANDS IN MEDIEVAL NATURE, CULTURE AND MIND
By: Gerhard Jaritz (Editor), Torstein Jorgensen (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 6155053243
ISBN 13: 9786155053245
Publisher: CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 10 April, 2011
Series: CEU Medievalia 14
Pages: 148
Description: Focuses specifically on the concept and role of islands in the medieval world.
Synopsis: 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 happeningsA". The contributions cluster around the concept of islands under the following perspectives: * search for undiscovered and paradise islands in literature and cartography * idea of fictional islands in Old Norse texts * quality of islands in literary texts * monasteries as islands and monasteries on islands * human body as an island of religious achievements * seasonal islandisation of certain lands.
Publication: Hungary
Imprint: Central European University Press
Returns: Returnable
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