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M E D I E V A L I A 11 The Edges of the Medieval World Edited by Gerhard Jaritz Juhan Kreem The Edges of the Medieval World CEU Medievalia – ISSN 1587-6470 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. Aziz Al-Azmeh Ibn Khaldūn: An Essay in Reinterpretation 2003 (2nd ed.) 5. People and Nature in Historical Perspective József Laszlovszky and Péter Szabó, eds. 2003 6. Előd Nemerkényi Latin Classics in Medieval Hungary: Eleventh Century Agatha studia ad philologiam classicam pertinentia XIV 2004 7. Monotheistic Kingship: The Medieval Variants Pasts Incorporated: CEU Studies in the Humanities III Aziz Al-Azmeh and János M. Bak, eds. 2004 8. The Long Arm of Papal Authority Gerhard Jaritz, Tornstein Jřrgensen and Kirsi Salonen, eds. 2006 9. Catalogue of the Slavonic Cyrillic Manuscripts of the National Széchényi Library. Ralph Cleminson, Elissavta Moussakova and Nina Voutova, eds. 2006 10....at usque ad ultimum terrae. The Apostolic Penitentiary in Local Contexts Gerhard Jaritz, Torstein Jørgensen and Kirsi Salonen, eds. 2007 http://medstud.ceu.hu http://www.ceupress.com In the Middles Ages, the edges of someone's world could carry various meanings and represent different things. They might, on the onehand,havebeensituatedinfar-awayregions, mainly in the north and east, lands most often only known from hearsay and inhabited by strange beings: humans who had their faces on their chest, did not have a mouth, or had the heads of dogs. On the other hand, the edges of an individual's world could also just mean the borders of the community they lived in, borders that they may not have had a chance to cross their whole lives long. These varieties of the edges of the medieval world were the topic of an international workshop held on the Estonian island of Muhu—itself a place that could easily be associated with the topic of this meeting—in 2006. Specialists from eight European countries offer their insightful ideas and particular perspectives on the different edges of the medieval world and contribute to a discussion that is rapidly gaining importance for Medieval Studies. Editors: Gerhard Jaritz is professor of Medieval Studies at Central European University and senior research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences Juhan Kreem is vice-director of Tallinn City Archives Contributors: Lucie Doležalová (Prague) Gerhard Jaritz (Budapest and Krems) Torstein Jørgensen (Bergen) Juhan Kreem (Tallinn) Else Mundal (Bergen) Tom Pettitt (Odense) Aleksander Pluskowski (Reading) Felicitas Schmieder (Hagen) Judit Sebő (Budapest) Anti Selart (Tartu) Kadri Tüür (Muhu) Central European University Department of Medieval Studies Central European University Press Budapest—New York Centre for Medieval Studies, Tallin University ...