The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland

The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland
Author :
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 278
Release :
ISBN-13 : 9781843845690
ISBN-10 : 1843845695
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland by : Dale Kedwards

Download or read book The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland written by Dale Kedwards and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Icelandic Hemispherical World Maps -- Chapter 2 The Icelandic Zonal Map -- Chapter 3 The Two Maps from Viðey -- Chapter 4 Iceland in Europe -- Chapter 5 Forty Icelandic Priests and a Map of the World -- Conclusion -- Map Texts and Translations -- The Icelandic Hemispherical World Maps -- The Icelandic Zonal Map -- The Larger Viðey Map -- The Smaller Viðey Map -- Bibliography -- Index -- Studies in Old Norse Literature.


The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland Related Books

The Mappae Mundi of Medieval Iceland
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Dale Kedwards
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Front cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Icelandic Hemispherical World Maps -- Chapter 2 T
Saints and Their Legacies in Medieval Iceland
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Stephen Pelle
Categories: Iceland
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An examination of hagiographical traditions and their impact.
Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Albrecht Classen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-11 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of B
Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Margaret Clunies Ross
Categories: Sagas
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-16 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Sagas of Icelanders, also called family sagas, are the best known of the many literary genres that flourished in medieval Iceland, most of them achieving writte
Mnemonic Echoing in Old Norse Sagas and Eddas
Language: en
Pages: 276
Authors: Pernille Hermann
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book brings together Old Norse-Icelandic literature and critical strategies of memory, and argues that some of the particularities of this vernacular textu