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" Isolated islands in medieval nature, culture and mind / "
edited by Torstein Jørgensen and Gerhard Jaritz.
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BL
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884507
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Isolated islands in medieval nature, culture and mind /\ edited by Torstein Jørgensen and Gerhard Jaritz.
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| Edition Statement
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First edition.
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| Publication Statement
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Budapest ;New York :: Central European University Press,, 2011.
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CEU medievalia ;; 14
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1 online resource (146 pages) :: illustrations, maps.
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6155053251
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6155053243
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9786155053245
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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
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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
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Islands-- History.
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Islands-- Social aspects.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Earth Environmental Sciences.
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Geography.
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HISTORY-- Medieval.
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Islands-- Social aspects.
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Islands.
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Öar-- historia.
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Öar-- sociala aspekter.
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Physical Geography.
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| Dewey Classification
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304.2/3
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GB471.I88 2011eb
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Jaritz, Gerhard,1949-
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Jørgensen, Torstein,1951-
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