Text and Territory: Geographical Imagination in the European Middle Ages.

VI, 330 p.: Ill. Lediglich der Einband ist leicht berieben, sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / Only the cover is slightly rubbed, otherwise a good and clean copy without annotations. - Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Medieval Geographical Desire Sylvia Tomasch I CENTERS AND MARGINS 1. “Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita”: The Palpability of Purgatorio Mary Baine Campbell 2. Defining the Earth’s Center in a Medieval “Multi-Text”: Jerusalem in The Book of John Mandeville Iain Macleod Higgins 3. Against Gog and Magog Scott D. Westrem II PLACE AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY 4. Territorial Interpolations in the Old English Orosius Sealy Gilles 5. Making History English: Cultural Identity and Historical Explanation in William of Malmesbury and Lajamon’s Brut Robert M. Stein 6. Too Close for Comfort: Dis-Orienting Chivalry in the Wars of Alexander Christine Chism III GENDER, SEXUALITY, GEOGRAPHY 7. City Air Makes Men Free and Women Bound Jo Ann McNamara 8. Land-Taking and Text-Making in Medieval Iceland Margaret Clunies Ross 9. Courted in the Country: Woman’s Precarious Place in the Troubadours’ Lyric Landscape Gale Sigal 10. Assault from Behind: Sodomy, Foreign Invasion, and Masculine Identity in the Roman d’Eneas Vincent A. Lankewish IV THE TERRITORY OF TEXTS 11. Judecca, Dante’s Satan, and the Dis-placed Jew Sylvia Tomasch 12. The ABC of Ptolemy: Mapping the World with the Alphabet Kathleen Biddick Bibliography List of Contributors Index. ISBN 9780812216356