Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind

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THE MUHU PROCEEDINGS 2 ISOLATED ISLANDS IN MEDIEVAL NATURE, CULTURE AND MIND CEU MEDIEVALIA 14 Series Editor: József Laszlovszky Series Technical Editor: Annabella Pál Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind Edited by Torstein Jørgensen and Gerhard Jaritz Centre for Medieval Studies University of Bergen & Central European University Department of Medieval Studies & Central European University Press Budapest · New York Budapest, 2011 © Editors and Contributors 2011 1st edition Technical Editor: Gerhard Jaritz Copy Editor: Judith Rasson Cover design for the series by Péter Tóth Cover Illustration: Islands in the North of Europe Hartmann Schedel, World Chronicle (Nuremberg, 1493), fol. 286v (detail) Joint publication by: Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bergen P.O.Box 7805, 5020 Bergen, Norway Telephone: +47 55 58 80 85, Fax: +47 55 58 80 90 E-mail: post@cms.uib.no, Website: http://www.uib.no/cms/en Central European University Department of Medieval Studies Nádor u. 9, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary Telephone: (+36-1) 327-3051, Fax: (+36-1) 327-3055 E-mail: medstud@ceu.hu, Website: http://medievalstudies.ceu.hu Central European University Press An imprint of the Central European University Share Company Nádor u. 11, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary Telephone: (+36-1) 327-3138, Fax: (+36-1) 327-3183 E-mail: ceupress@ceu.hu, Website: http://www.ceupress.com 400 West 59th Street, New York NY 10019, USA Telephone (+1-212) 547-6932, Fax: (+1-646) 557-2416 E-mail: mgreenwald@sorosny.org All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the permission of the Publishers. Published with the support of NCMS ISSN 1587-6470 CEU MEDIEVALIA ISBN 978-615-5053-24-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Isolated Islands in Medieval Nature, Culture and Mind/edited by Torstein Jørgensen, Gerhard Jaritz – 1st ed. p. cm. -- (CEU medievalia ; 14) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-6155053245 (pbk.) 1. Islands--History. 2. Islands--Social aspects. 3. Civilization, Medieval. I. Jørgensen, Torstein, 1951- II. Jaritz, Gerhard, 1949GB471 .I88 2011 304.2'3--dc22 2010052374 Printed in Hungary by Akaprint Kft., Budapest ...