Visions of North in Premodern Europe

The North has long attracted attention, not simply as a circumpolar geographical location, but also as an ideological space, a place that is ‘made'through the understanding, imagination, and interactions of both insiders and outsiders. The envisioning of the North brings it into being, and it is fro...

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Autores principales: Jørgensen, Dolly (ED), Langum, Virginia (ED)
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Publicado: Brepols Publishers 2018
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