Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction – the Medieval World Then and Now 1
	Notes
Part I: A Wider World
	Chapter 2: The Horizons of Gregory of Tours
		The World Witnessed from Tours
		The North: An Ecclesiastical Frontier
		The Holy Land: A Union of Geography and Theology
		Rome: City of Martyrs and Pagans
		The Greater Levant: A Landscape of Spiritual Power
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 3: When Worldviews Collide?: The Travel Narratives of Haraldr Sigurðarson of Norway
		Travel and Authority in the World of Haraldr Sigurðarson
		Travel to the East, Otherness, and the Commonplace in the Poetry of Haraldr and His Skalds
		The Varangian and the Dog-Headed Warrior in Kiev
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: Concubinage in New Contexts: Interfaith Borrowings and the Rulers of Castile-León in the High Middle Ages
		Introduction
			The Invention of Christian Iberian Concubinage
				Problematic Precedents
				Strategic Borrowings: Alfonso VI (r. 1065–1109)
				(Re)Gendering Expectations: Urraca I (r. 1109–1126)
				Concubinal Consolidation: Alfonso VII (r. 1126–1157)
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: Finding Byzantine-Norman Common Ground: Classics and Christianity in Tzetzes’ Encomium to Loukia
		Ioannes Tzetzes and the Text
		Byzantines and Normans in the Mid-twelfth Century
		Tzetzes’ Loukia and Byzantine-Norman Common Ground
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 6: Imagined Geographies in Early Rus’
		Reading the Map
			Borrowed Geographies
			Native Geographies
			River Routes of Trade and Faith
		Etiology and Geography
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7: The Globe in Thirteenth-Century Hispania : Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and His World
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: The Worldview of Marco Polo’s Devisament dou monde : Commercial Marvels, Silk Route Nostalgia, and Global Empire in the Late Middle Ages 1
		Nostalgia for a Lost Mercantile Network
		Desirable Commodities and Paradisiacal Entrepôts
		The New Alchemist’s Economic System of Paper Money
		The Fall Back into Empire
		Conclusions: Global Trade, Power, and Corruption
		Notes
		Bibliography
			Sources
			Studies
	Chapter 9: Treasuries as Windows to the Medieval World: San Isidoro de León and Saint Blaise at Braunschweig
		The Treasuries at León and Braunschweig: Site-Specific Sources
		Inscribed Selves on Site: A Herstory
		Ivory Horns of Plenty: A Wide World
		Glistening Gold, Gems, and the Shape of Things: Local Prestige
		Conclusion: Treasuries as Windows
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part II: Neighbours and Neighbourhoods
	Chapter 10: Adam of Bremen’s View at the Polabian Slavs
		Notes
		Bibliography
			Literature
	Chapter 11: Into the Wild West: Two Twelfth-Century Clerics’ Views of Medieval Brittany
		Precursors
		Baudri de Bourgueil
		Robert of Arbrissel
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 12: An Irish Sea King?: Ethnicity and Legitimacy in the Vita Griffini Filii Conani and Historia Gruffud vab Kenan
		“On the Friendliest Terms and Greatest Concord with Neighbouring Kings” 19
		Daenysseit, Gwydyl, and Gwyndit in Historia Gruffud vab Kenan
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 13: Saxo and the Peoples to the East
		In a Mythical Time – the Larger Oikumene
		Closer Contact, Closer Alliances
		King of the Wends
		Notes
		Bibliography
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 14: Is There Any Other World?: Imagination of the Outside World in the Medieval Historiography of the Czech Lands Based on the Chronicles Cosmas of Prague, So-Called Dalimil and Přibík Pulkava of Radenín
		Notes
		Bibliography
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Sources
	Chapter 15: “Und gras vor spise zeren”: Migration, Fermentation, and the Map of Civilization in the Baltic Crusades
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 16: Bulgaria – “The New Byzantium”: Political Ideology and Self-Perception in a Medieval Balkan State
		Notes
		Works Cited
			Primary Sources
			Secondary Literature
	Chapter 17: Medieval Welsh Ethnic Nicknames and Implications: For the Welsh View of Their Geopolitical Context, 1050–1400
		Sais
			Gwyddel
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Index