دانلود کتاب Islands in the West: Classical Myth and the Medieval Norse and Irish Geographical Imagination

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List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
A View to the West 1
Historiographical Context 4
A Word on Methodology and Terminology 10
Summary of Research Objectives and Structure of the Enquiry 21
Chapter 1. North-Western Europe: Scandinavia, Ireland, and the Land of the Living 25
Irish Beginnings 25
Scandinavian Transformations 64
Chapter 2. The Classical Mediterranean: Rome, Greece, and the Islands of the Blessed 107
Greek Beginnings 108
First Transformations in the West: The Paradisiacal Otherworld Island in Etruria 165
Second Transformations in the West: The Paradisiacal Otherworld Island in Rome 191
Chapter 3. Eastern Roots? 209
Egypt via Crete 209
The Garden of Eden 218
Mesopotamia 222
Chapter 4. Continuity, Interaction — and Westward Expansion? 235
By Way of a Summary: Continuity Orient–Scandinavia? 235
Typology and Mechanisms of Regional Interaction 265
Types of Religious Contact Exemplified by the \'Islands in the West 268
Mechanisms of Religious Contact Exemplified by the \'Islands in the West\' 279
Paradise on Earth, Resonance, and the Norse in the Farthest West 287
Appendix. Beyond History 295
Bibliography 313
Index 349