Visions of North in premodern Europe

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2018] and ©2018

Subject:

Europe, Northern - History
Europe - History - To 476
Europe - History - 476-1492
Knowledge, Theory of - Europe - History - To 1500

Contributor:

Jørgensen, Dolly, editor
Langum, Virginia, editor

ISBN:

9782503574752 and 2503574750

Series:

Cursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium)

Description:

viii, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Envisioning North from a Premodern Perspective / DOLLY JØRGENSEN AND VIRGINIA LANGUM -- Scythia or Elysium? The Land of the Hyperboreans in Early Greek Literature / P♯R 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 Premodern Imaginary / VIRGINIA LANGUM -- Northern Seas, Marine Monsters, and Perceptions of the Premodern North Atlantic in the Longue Duře / VICKI E. SZABO -- Beastly Belonging in the Premodern North / DOLLY JØRGENSEN -- Making S̀mi of the Scots: Britains and Scandinavias Near Norths / JEREMY DEANGELO -- The Contours of the North? British Mountains and Northern Peoples, 16001750 / DAWN HOLLIS -- Unknown and Barbarian: Scandinavia and the Boundaries of Civilization in Early Modern Spain / MATEO BALLESTER RODRIGUEZ -- Omne malum ab Aquilone: Images of the Evil North in Early Modern Italy and their Impact on Cross-Religious Encounters / HELENA WANGEFELT STR₈M 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 / P♯IVI MARIA PIHLAJA

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

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

CB203 .V57 2018 31

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