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Visions of North in premodern Europe
- Title
- Visions of North in premodern Europe / edited by Dolly Jørgensen and Virginia Langum.
- Publication
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- viii, 370 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The North has long attracted attention, not simply as a circumpolar geographical location, but also as an ideological space, a place that is 'made' through the understanding, imagination, and interactions of both insiders and outsiders. The envisioning of the North brings it into being, and it is from this starting point that this volume explores how the North was perceived from ancient times up to the early modern period, questioning who, where, and what was defined as North over the course of two millennia. Covering historical periods as diverse as Ancient Greece to eighteenth-century France, and drawing on a variety of disciplines including cultural history, literary studies, art history, environmental history, and the history of science, the contributions gathered here combine to shed light on one key question: how was the North constructed as a place and a people? Material such as sagas, the ethnographic work of Olaus Magnus, religious writing, maps, medical texts, and illustrations are drawn on throughout the volume, offering important insights into how these key sources continued to be used over time.
- Series Statement
- Cursor Mundi ; volume 31
- Uniform Title
- Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 31.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Envisioning North from a premodern perspective / Dolly Jørgensen and Virginia Langum -- Scythia or Elysium? the land of the Hyperboreans in early Greek literature / Pär Sandin -- Inter imperium sine fine: Thule and Hyperborea in Roman literature / Lewis Webb -- The North in antiquity: between maps and myths / Mirela Avdagic -- The making of Normandy as a Northmen land: mythological cultivation and coastal way-finding / Barbara Auger -- The North in the Latin history writing of twelfth-century Norway / Steffen Hope -- Cold characters: northern temperament in the modern imaginary / Virginia Langum -- Northern seas, marine monsters, and the perceptions of the premodern North Atlantic in the Longue Durée / Vicki Szabo -- Beastly belonging in the premodern North / Dolly Jørgensen -- Making Sami of the Scots: Britain's and Scandinavia's near norths / Jeremy DeAngelo -- The contours of the North? British mountains and northern peoples, 1600-1750 / Dawn Hollis -- Unknown and barbarian: Scandinavia and the boundaries of civilization in early modern Spain / Mateo Ballester Rodríguez -- Omne malum ab Aquilone: images of the evil north in early modern Italy and their impact on cross-religious encounters / Helena Wangefelt Ström and Federico Barbierato -- Elevating the early modern North: the case of the Faroe Islands / Kim Simonsen -- The Vagina nationum in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: envisioning the North as a repository of migrating barbarians / Stefan Donecker -- The 'Northern Atlantis' revisited: inventing the Arctic roots of civilization in late eighteenth-century Paris / Päivi Maria Pihlaja.
- ISBN
- 9782503574752
- 2503574750
- 9782503574769 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019300947
- OCLC
- on1019660214
- 1019660214
- SCSB-9193871
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library