Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind

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M E D I E V A L I A 14 Edited by Torstein Jørgensen Gerhard Jaritz CEU Medievalia ISSN 1587-6470 Series Editor: József Laszlovszky Series Technical Editor: Annabella Pál Volumes 1, 2 and 6 are out of print 3. Oral History of the Middle Ages. The Spoken Word in Context Medium Aevum Quotidianum Sonderband XII. Gerhard Jaritz and Michael Richter, eds. 2001 4. Ibn Khaldun: An Essay in Reinterpretation Aziz Al-Azmeh 2003; (2nd ed.) 5. People and Nature in Historical Perspective József Laszlovszky and Péter Szabó, eds. 2003 7. Monotheistic Kingship: The Medieval Variant Pasts, Inc.: CEU Studies in the Humanities III Aziz Al-Azmeh and János M. Bak, eds 2004 8. The Long Arm of Papal Authority Gerhard Jaritz, Torsten Jørgensen and Kirsi Salonen, eds. 2006 9. Catalogues of the Slavonic Cyrillic Manuscripts of the National Széchényi Library Ralph Cleminson, Elissaveta Moussakova and Nina Voutova, eds. 2006 10. … at usque ad ultimum terrae. The Apostolic Pententiary in Local Contexts Gerhard Jaritz, Torsten Jørgensen and Kirsi Salonen, eds. 2007 11. The Edges of the Medieval World Gerhard Jaritz, Juhan Kreem, eds. 2009 12. Promoting the Saints. Cults and Their Contexts from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern Period Ottó Gecser , József Laszlovszky, Balázs Nagy, Marcell Sebők, Katalin Szende, eds. 2010 13. The Hospitallers in the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary c. 1150-1387 Zsolt Hunyadi 2010 One of the main characteristics of an island in the Middle Ages was to be isolated from the rest of the world, not only by water, but also by other borders. Islands were places ‘on the other side’: different, remote, savage, mysterious and marvellous. They were sites of extra-ordinary events and happenings. The eleven contributions in this book cluster around the concept of island taking the following perspectives: • the search for undiscovered and paradise islands in literature and cartography • the qualities of islands in literary evidence • the idea of fictional islands in Old Norse texts • the seasonal ‘islandization’ of certain lands • monasteries as islands and monasteries on islands • the human body as an island of religious achievements. The authors are international specialists who research the margins of the medieval world. Editors Torstein Jørgensen is professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen and the School of Mission and Theology, Stavanger Gerhard Jaritz is professor of Medieval Studies at Central European University and senior research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences Contributors Margaret Elphinstone (Glasgow) Eldar Heide (Bergen) Johny Grandjean Gøgsig Jacobsen (Copenhagen) Gerhard Jaritz (Budapest/Krems) Torstein Jørgensen (Bergen/Stavanger) Juhan Kreem (Tallinn) Else Mundal (Bergen) Torben Kjersgaard Nielsen (Aalborg) Felicitas Schmieder (Hagen) Bernt Øyvind Thorvaldsen (Volda) Kristel Zilmer (Bergen) Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind Centre for Medieval Studies University of Bergen http://www.uib.no/cms/en Central European University Department of Medieval Studies http://medievalstudies.ceu.hu Central European University Press Budapest-New York http://www.ceupress.com Edited by T. JØrgensen, G. Jaritz Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind 053245 786155 9 ISBN 978-615-5053-24-5 90000 > CEU_MED14_puhat_20110203.indd 1 CEU_MED14_puhat_20110203.indd 1 2011.02.03. 11:58:09 2011.02.03. 11:58:09 ...