American/Medieval Goes North

Earth and Water in Transit

Contributions by Mary Kate Hurley Contributions by Pamela Berger Contributions by Tina Boyer Contributions by Joshua Davies Contributions by Donna Beth Ellard Contributions by Clara A. Lees Contributions by Wayne Newell Contributions by Mathias Nordvig Contributions by Bailey Pittenger Contributions by Barbara J. Poirier Contributions by Gale Sigal Contributions by Elly Truitt Contributions by Margaret Zulick Edited by Gillian R. Overing Edited by Ulrike Wiethaus

Book cover: American/Medieval Goes North

Extent: 287 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Medieval Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2019)

ISBN: 9783847109525

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $74.00

In stock

A study of the hemispheric North as the epicenter of climate change, the medieval beginning of the transatlantic exchange, and the earliest European contact with Indigenous peoples in the “Americas”.


The North signifies, as do all four cardinal directions, emotional, environmental, and cultural bodies of knowledge. These include political structures (“the wealthy North”), artistic productions (“Scandinavian” design), nomadic Hunter “Indigeneity” and Colonizer “Whiteness” as Northern signifiers – and, of course, the domain of many species of spirit masters, demons, and missionaries. Archaeologists agree that long before Columbus, it was Vikings and their slaves – northern seafarers from Scandinavia and enslaved men and women from Ireland – who made first contact with “America” in its northernmost regions. Twelve previously unpublished essays represent the disciplines of literature, history, art history, film studies, rhetoric, religious studies, cultural and queer studies.

  • Contributions by Mary Kate Hurley
  • Contributions by Pamela Berger
  • Contributions by Tina Boyer
  • Contributions by Joshua Davies
  • Contributions by Donna Beth Ellard
  • Contributions by Clara A. Lees
  • Contributions by Wayne Newell
  • Contributions by Mathias Nordvig
  • Contributions by Bailey Pittenger
  • Contributions by Barbara J. Poirier
  • Contributions by Gale Sigal
  • Contributions by Elly Truitt
  • Contributions by Margaret Zulick
  • Edited by Gillian R. Overing
  • Edited by Ulrike Wiethaus