Authorship, worldview, and identity in medieval Europe
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Authorship, worldview, and identity in medieval Europe
(Studies in medieval history and culture)
Routledge, 2022
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What did medieval authors know about their world? Were they parochial and focused on just their monastery, town, or kingdom? Or were they aware of the broader medieval Europe that modern historians write about? This collection brings the focus back to medieval authors to see how they described their world. While we see that each author certainly had their own biases, the vast majority of them did not view the world as constrained to their small piece of it. Instead, they talked about the wider world, and often they had informants or textual sources that informed them about the world, even if they did not visit it themselves. This volume shows that they also used similar ideas to create space and identity - whether talking about the desert, the holy land, or food practices in their texts. By examining medieval authors and their own perceptions of their world, this collection offers a framework for discussions of medieval Europe in the twenty-first century.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction - the medieval world then and now
Part 1: A Wider World
2. The Horizons of Gregory of Tours
3. When World Views Collide? The Travel Narratives of Haraldr Sigurdarson of Norway
4. Concubinage in New Contexts: Interfaith Borrowings and the Rulers of Castile-Leon in the High Middle Ages
5. Finding Byzantine-Norman Common Ground:Classics and Christianity in Tzetzes' Encomium to Loukia
6. Imagined Geographies in Early Rus'
7. The Globe in Thirteenth-Century Hispania: Archbishop Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada and his World
8. The World View of Marco Polo's Devisament dou monde: Commercial Marvels, Silk Route Nostalgia and Global Empire in the Late Middle Ages
9. Treasuries as Windows to the Medieval World: San Isidoro de Leon and Saint Blaise at Braunschweig
Part 2: Neighbors and Neighborhoods
10. Adam's of Bremen view of the Polabian Slavs
11. Into the Wild West: Two Twelfth-Century Clerics' View of Medieval Brittany
12. An Irish Sea King?: Ethnicity and Legitimacy in the Vita Griffini filii Conani and Historia Gruffud vab Kenan
13. Saxo and the Slavs
14. Is there any other world? Imagination of the outside world in the medieval historiography of the Czech lands based on the chronicles Cosmas of Prague, so called Dalimil and Pribik Pulkava of Radenin
15.'Und gras vor spise zeren': Migration, Fermentation, and the Map of Civilization in the Baltic Crusades
16. Bulgaria - the new Byzantium: Political ideology and self-perception in a medieval Balkan State
17. Medieval Welsh Ethnic Nicknames and Implications for the Welsh View of their Geopolitical Context, 1050 - 1400
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