List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction- the medieval world then and now / Christian Raffensperger -- The Horizons of Gregory of Tours / Erin Thomas Dailey -- When world views collide? The travel narratives of Haraldr Sigurðarson of Norway / Bjørn Bandlien -- Concubinage in new contexts: interfaith borrowings and the rulers of Castile-León in the High Middle Ages / Stacey E. Murrell -- Finding Byzantine-Norman common ground: classics and Christianity in Tzetzes' Encomium to Loukia / Hannah Ewing -- Imagined geographies in Early Rus' / Inés García de la Puente -- The globe in thirteenth-century Hispania: Archbishop Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada and his world / Lucy K. Pick -- The world view of Marco Polo's Devisament dou monde: commercial marvels, Silk Route nostalgia and global empire in the Late Middle Ages / Teresa Shawcross -- Treasuries as windows to the medieval world: San Isidoro de León and Saint Blaise at Braunschweig / Jitske Jasperse -- Adam's of Bremen view of the Polabian Slavs / Christian Lübke -- Into the Wild West: two twelfth-century clerics' view of medieval Brittany / Amy Livingstone -- An Irish sea king?: ethnicity and legitimacy in the Vita Griffini filii Conani and Historia Gruffud vab Kenan / Rebecca Thomas -- Saxo and the Slavs / Kurt Villads Jensen -- Is there any other world? Imagination of the outside world in the medieval historiography of the Czech lands based on the chronicles Cosmas of Prague, so called Dalimil and P?ibík Pulkava of Radenín / David Kalhous -- 'Und gras vor spise zeren': migration, fermentation, and the map of civilization in the Baltic Crusades / Paul Milliman -- Bulgaria - the new Byzantium: Political ideology and self-perception in a medieval Balkan State / Panos Sophoulis -- Medieval Welsh ethnic nicknames and implications for the Welsh view of their geopolitical context, 1050-1400 / Frederick Suppe -- Index.