Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface 1
5. Edges of the World – Edges of Time 4
6. From the Peripheries to the Centres and Back: Visual Culture and the Edges of this World 21
7. The Picture of the World in Old Norse Sources 39
8. “The Land of the Norwegians is the Last in the World”: A Mid-eleventh-century Description of the Nordic Countries from the Pen of Adam of Bremen 46
9. Political Rhetoric and the Edges of Christianity: Livonia and Its Evil Elements in the Fifteenth Century 55
10. Living on the Edge: Pirates and the Livonians in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 70
11. Darkness on the Edge of Town: Life at the Flurgrenze in Medieval and Traditional Narrative 82
12. The Margins of One’s Small World: The Outskirts of Towns in Late Medieval and Early Modern Visual Representations 99
13. What Is Exotic? Sources of Animals and Animal Products from the Edges of the Medieval World 113
14. The Beast of Muhu: A Hybrid from the Periphery 130
15. Tibi Silens Laus: Silence at the Edge of Language 136
16. List of Contributors 142