The Edges of the Medieval World

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TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations …….…………………………………..………………..….. vii Preface ……….……..……………….……………………………………….…. 1 Felicitas Schmieder, Edges of the World – Edges of Time ………….…..………… 4 Gerhard Jaritz,, From the Peripheries to the Centres and Back: Visual Culture and the Edges of this World ………...……………….... 21 Else Mundal, The Picture of the World in Old Norse Sources …………………. 39 Torstein Jørgensen, “The Land of the Norwegians is the Last in the World”: A Mid-eleventh-century Description of the Nordic Countries from the Pen of Adam of Bremen …………….……………..….…… 46 Anti Selart, Political Rhetoric and the Edges of Christianity: Livonia and Its Evil Elements in the Fifteenth Century . ……....…….. 55 Juhan Kreem, Living on the Edge: Pirates and the Livonians in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries ……….…………………….. 70 Tom Pettitt, Darkness on the Edge of Town: Life at the Flurgrenze in Medieval and Traditional Narrative …...…….……………….…..… 82 Judit Sebő, The Margins of One’s Small World: The Outskirts of Towns in Late Medieval and Early Modern Visual Representations …... .…… 99 Aleksander Pluskowski, What Is Exotic? Sources of Animals and Animal Products from the Edges of the Medieval World …….……………………….. 113 Tom Pettitt and Kadri Tüür, The Beast of Muhu: A Hybrid from the Periphery .... 130 Lucie Doležalová, Tibi Silens Laus: Silence at the Edge of Language ……………. 136 List of Contributors ……………….. .……………………………………….. 142 ...