In early modern Europe fundamental geographical as well as religious certainties became unstable. At the intersection of the two stood sacred geography. This book examines the scope and content of this scholarly genre.
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Picking up the themes explores during the 2005 International Medieval Congress on 'Youth and Age', this interdisciplinary volume focuses on social, cultural and biological aspects of being young and old in the medieval north.
"Among the most important sources for understanding the cultures and systems of thought of ancient Mesopotamia is a large body of magical and medical texts written in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages. An especially significant branch of this literature centres upon witchcraft…
"In this book Andrzej Wypustek provides a study of various forms of poetic heroization that became increasingly widespread in Greek funerary epigram. The deceased were presented as eternally young heroes, oblivious of old age and death, as stars shining with an eternal brightnes…
