Download or read book The Edges of the Medieval World written by Gerhard Jaritz and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Middles Ages, the edges of someone's world could carry various meanings and represent different things. They might, on the onehand, have been situated in far-away regions, mainly in the north and east, lands most often only known from hearsay and inhabited by strange beings: humans who had their faces on their chest, did not have a mouth, or had the heads of dogs. On the other hand, the edges of an individual's world could also just mean the borders of the community they lived in, borders that they may not have had a chance to cross their whole lives long.