Islands and cities in medieval myth, literature, and history : papers delivered at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, in 2005, 2006 and 2007 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Frankfurt ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011
Description:	190 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Beihefte zur Mediaevistik ; 14 Beihefte zur Mediaevistik ; 14.
Subject:	Literature, Medieval -- Congresses. Mythology. Cities and towns, Medieval. Middle Ages. Islands. Cities and towns, Medieval. Islands. Literature, Medieval. Middle Ages. Mythology. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8378151

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Other authors / contributors:	Grafetstätter, Andrea. Hartmann, Sieglinde. Ogier, James Michael. University of Leeds. International Medieval Congress (2005 : Leeds, England)
ISBN:	363161165X 9783631611654
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"The studies presented in this book derive from a series of sessions held at the annual International Medieval Congress in Leeds, UK...Four sessions, held from 2004 to 2006, bore the title 'Islands of the World and the Seven Seas in Medieval Myth and History', and three in 2007 the title 'Cities, Myths and Literatures'...The stated objective of the island sessions was the location of a 'starting point for a new investigation into the possible impact that myths and other fictitious stories about insular wonderlands had on the reasons why medieval men and women undertook their various missions, searches and explorations that finally led to the discovery of the New World.' Similarly, the cities sessions 'intended to find new connections between ancient myths and medieval constructions of real or imagined cities in literature'."--editors' pref. p.7

Table of Contents:

ISLANDS IN MEDIEVAL MYTH, LITERATURE, AND HISTORY: James Ogier: Islands and skylands: an Eddic geography
Sieglinde Hartmann: insular myths in the Nibelungenlied: was Siegfried slain on an island?
Jarosław Wenta: holy islands and their Christianization in medieval Prussia
Patrizia Mazzadi: Dante and the island of purgatory
Maria E. Dorninger: the island of Cyprus in travel literature of the fourteenth century
James Ogier: Insulae: myths, mujeres, and Mexico
Yuko Tagaya: Far Eastern islands and their myths: Japan
CITIES IN MEDIEVAL MYTH, LITERATURE, AND HISTORY: Yuko Tagaya: Kyoto in myth and literature
Sieglinde Hartmann: A medieval poet's sense of humour: Oswald von Wolkenstein and Emperor Sigismund in Paris
Andrea Grafetstätter: foreign culture in a foreign town: the Nuremberg
Poet Jakob Ayrer and the reception of sixteenth-century English comedy
Plays in Germany
Jacek Kowzan: heavenly Jerusalem as a locus amoenus in medieval and early modern Polish literature

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