Islands and cities in medieval myth, literature, and history
Subtitle: papers delivered at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, in 2005, 2006, and 2007
By: Andrea Grafetstätter, Sieglinde Hartmann, James Ogier (eds.)
Contributors: International Medieval Congress (2005 : Leeds); University of Leeds
Series: Beihefte zur Mediaevistik -- 14; Beihefte zur Mediaevistik -- 14.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang D; Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9783631611654
Subjects: Congresses; Medieval Cities and towns; Islands; Mythology; Medieval Literature; Middle Ages
Description: "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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-190).
Table of contents: title: ISLANDS IN MEDIEVAL MYTH, LITERATURE, AND HISTORY: James Ogier: Islands and skylands: an Eddic geography; title: Sieglinde Hartmann: insular myths in the Nibelungenlied: was Siegfried slain on an island?; title: Jarosław Wenta: holy islands and their Christianization in medieval Prussia; title: Patrizia Mazzadi: Dante and the island of purgatory; title: Maria E. Dorninger: the island of Cyprus in travel literature of the fourteenth century; title: James Ogier: Insulae: myths, mujeres, and Mexico; title: Yuko Tagaya: Far Eastern islands and their myths: Japan; title: CITIES IN MEDIEVAL MYTH, LITERATURE, AND HISTORY: Yuko Tagaya: Kyoto in myth and literature; title: Sieglinde Hartmann: A medieval poet's sense of humour: Oswald von Wolkenstein and Emperor Sigismund in Paris; title: Andrea Grafetstätter: foreign culture in a foreign town: the Nuremberg; title: Poet Jakob Ayrer and the reception of sixteenth-century English comedy; title: Plays in Germany; title: Jacek Kowzan: heavenly Jerusalem as a locus amoenus in medieval and early modern Polish literature