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Monsters, marvels and miracles; imaginary journeys and landscapes in the middle ages.

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 journeys and landscapes in the middle ages.

Ed. by Leif Sondergaard and Rasmus Thorning Hansen.

U. Press of Southern Denmark

2005

210 pages

$26.00

Paperback

CB203

Drawing from history, art history, literature, and religion, European and American scholars offer eight essays, two in German, on places and people that modern voyagers seem not to be able to find anymore. Their topics include mapping the Middle Ages, monsters at the Earth's imagined corners, imaginary journeys among the Celts The following pages provide lists of nations or people of Celtic origin, arranged by branch of Celtic ethnicity or language grouping:

Goidelic Celts
  • list of Irish people
  • list of Scots
  • list of Manx people
Brythonic Celts
, and the Land of Cockaigne in the far west of Spain. Thirty two color plates are included, but no index. The papers were presented at a November 2001 symposium symposium

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